Exporting Results to oSP3D

Using the ACT plugin, you can export meshes and results from Ansys Mechanical into oSP3D through specific text file formats that oSP3D can understand. These files are located in a subdirectory in the SYS/MECH folder within the Ansys Workbench project directory. Therein, you can find the mesh file sos_mesh.cdb, which is in the Ansys CDB format, and the data file sos_results.k, which is in the LS-PrePost format.

The following export options are defined. Each of them creates a single node in the solution section of Ansys Mechanical and are associated with an individual subdirectory.

Caution:  The General result can only be configured if the solution is already available. That means that you must suppress it before solving the system for the first time and then unsuppress it and configure the node.

Mechanical results

Data saved for mesh part

The part of the structure (faces, bodies, nodes, or elements) for which the data is to be exported to oSP3D. It must be a subset of the actual mesh part to be exported (or must be equal to that).

Mesh part to be exported to oSP3D

The mesh to export to oSP3D (bodies or elements). It may be a substructure of the entire mesh, depending on the region of interest that you want to analyze with oSP3D. The exported mesh contains named selections for finite element nodes and elements that contain the selected region in Data saved for mesh part.

General options

  • Element types of mesh

    Because a statistical analysis of the result data does not require the full resolution, you should generally export linearized finite elements to oSP3D. No mid-edge nodes are exported.

    When set to Linear, only linearized finite elements are exported. When set to Original, all nodes, including the mid-edge nodes of quadratic elements, are exported.

  • Load step

    The number of the load step for which the solution is to be exported. You can either define the explicit number of the load step or enter 0 to automatically export the data for the last load step.

Data to export

  • Displacements

    Exports the displacements (UX, UY, UZ, and USUM) as node values.

  • Stress tensor

    Exports the stress tensor (SX, SY, SZ, SXY, SXZ, and SYZ) as node values (elemental averages for each node).

  • Stress (principal)

    Exports the principal stresses (S1, S2, and S3) as node values (elemental averages for each node).

  • Stress (von Mises)

    Exports the equivalent von Mises stress (SEQV) as node values (elemental averages for each node).

Solver options

Internal directory

This path is a local directory in the SYS/MECH path of the Workbench project directory. It contains all data that is being exported from Mechanical (mesh and data).

Thermal results

Data saved for mesh part

The part of the structure (faces, bodies, nodes, and elements) for which to export data to oSP3D. It must be a subset of the actual mesh part to be exported (or it must be equal to that).

Mesh part to be exported to oSP3D

The mesh to export to oSP3D (bodies or elements). It may be a substructure of the entire mesh, depending on the region of interest that you want to analyze with oSP3D. The exported mesh contains named selections for finite element nodes and elements that contain the selected region in Data saved for mesh part.

General options

  • Element types of mesh

    Because a statistical analysis of the result data does not require the full resolution, you should generally export linearized finite elements to oSP3D. No mid-edge nodes are exported.

    When set to Linear, only linearized finite elements are exported. When set to Original, all nodes, including the mid-edge nodes of quadratic elements, are exported.

  • Load step

    The number of the load step for which the solution is to be exported. You can either define the explicit number of the load step or enter 0 to automatically export the data for last load step.

Data to export

Temperature

Exports the temperature TEMP as node values.

Solver options

Internal directory

This path is a local directory in the SYS/MECH path of the Workbench project directory. It contains all data that is being exported from Mechanical (mesh and data).

General Result

Data saved for mesh part

The part of the structure (faces, bodies, nodes, and elements) for which to export data to oSP3D. It must be a subset of the actual mesh part to be exported (or it must be equal to that).

Mesh part to be exported to oSP3D

The mesh to export to oSP3D (bodies or elements). It may be a substructure of the entire mesh, depending on the region of interest that you want to analyze with oSP3D. The exported mesh contains named selections for finite element nodes and elements that contain the selected region in Data saved for mesh part.

General options

  • Element types of mesh

    Because a statistical analysis of the result data does not require the full resolution, you should generally export linearized finite elements to oSP3D. No mid-edge nodes are exported.

    When set to Linear, only linearized finite elements are exported. When set to Original, all nodes, including the mid-edge nodes of quadratic elements, are exported.

  • Load step

    The number of the load step for which the solution is to be exported. You can either define the explicit number of the load step or enter 0 to automatically export the data for last load step.

Data to export

You can specify any solution object that is available in the Ansys RST or RTH solution file. The availability of the individual results depends on the type of analysis (Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, and so on.). Only a single result is exported for each Export-node.

  • Kind of data

    How the data is stored in Ansys.

    When set to Node, the data to export is stored at the nodes (such as displacements and temperatures).

    When set to Element node, the data to export is stored at the nodes, but with different values for each element. These values are averaged and then exported as node values to oSP3D (such as stresses). When set to Element, the data to export is stored at the elements (such as element quality and elemental volume).

  • Result

    Select a vector-values result from the list. For example, you might select U for the displacement vector.

  • Component

    Select the component of the vector-values result from the list. For example, you might select X for the X component of the displacement vector U, leading to a result named UX in oSP3D.

Solver options

Internal directory

This path is a local directory in the SYS/MECH path of the Workbench project directory. It contains all data that is being exported from Mechanical (mesh and data).