Imported Plies

Provides ply/layer data that has been made available from an external upstream system, such as Ansys Composite PrepPost.

Additional Related Information

Object Properties

The Details Pane for this object includes the following properties.

Category	Properties/Options/Descriptions
Definition	Type: Appears as Imported Plies and is a read-only field. Suppressed: Select Yes to suppress this object. Note: The Suppression option is only available when the external system shares the model with the downstream analysis system.
Material	Nonlinear Effects: Select Yes to include the nonlinear effects from the material properties. The reference temperature specified for the body on which a ply is defined is used as the reference temperature for the plies. Thermal Strain Effects: Select Yes to send the coefficient of thermal expansion to the solver. Note: These fields are not supported for an Explicit Dynamics analysis.
Graphic Properties	Layer to Display: Provides a slider that enables you to select the Layer of the model you wish to display in the Geometry window. The default is setting is All Layers (numerical value = 0). The layer number will correspond to the layer number used by the Mechanical APDL solver, which may not match the layer number of the system providing the layered data. Note: This property is only available when the external system shares the model with the downstream analysis system.

Category

Properties/Options/Descriptions

Definition

Type: Appears as Imported Plies and is a read-only field.

Suppressed: Select Yes to suppress this object.

Note: The Suppression option is only available when the external system shares the model with the downstream analysis system.

Material

Nonlinear Effects: Select Yes to include the nonlinear effects from the material properties. The reference temperature specified for the body on which a ply is defined is used as the reference temperature for the plies.

Thermal Strain Effects: Select Yes to send the coefficient of thermal expansion to the solver.

Note: These fields are not supported for an Explicit Dynamics analysis.

Graphic Properties

Layer to Display: Provides a slider that enables you to select the Layer of the model you wish to display in the Geometry window. The default is setting is All Layers (numerical value = 0). The layer number will correspond to the layer number used by the Mechanical APDL solver, which may not match the layer number of the system providing the layered data.

Note: This property is only available when the external system shares the model with the downstream analysis system.

Tree Dependencies

Valid Parent Tree Object: Model.
Valid Child Tree Objects: Comment and Image.

Insertion Methods

Automatically inserted when importing ply/layer data from an external system.

Right-click Options

In addition to common right-click options, relevant right-click options for child objects of an Imported Plies object include:

Insert for Environment
Reset to ACP Ply Grouping: Restore the original ply structure provided by ACP.
Create Ply Named Selection: This option creates Worksheet-based Named Selections for all of the child objects of the ply group.
Suppress

API Reference

See the External Enhanced Model section of the ACT API Reference Guide for specific scripting information.