ANSA is a powerful pre-processing software from BETA CAE systems. Using the Task Manager, ANSA provides an interface for you to automatically perform measurements on the geometry such as distances or angles and automatically export them to a response file. Such measurements can be used to define the criteria for an optimization.

The ANSA output node can read and parse ANSA response files to register individual measurements as responses or output slots in optiSLang. This can be done using drag and drop from the list of outputs after opening the response file in the ANSA output node dialog box.

Expected File Content

The ANSA response file is a machine readable ASCII file, see the following example for reference.

#
# ANSA_VERSION: 18.0.0
#
# file created by A N S A Fri Jul 13 11:40:58 2018
#
# Output from:
# /home/lgraening/Untitled
#
# RESPONSES
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# For correspondence of RESULT, RES1, RES2, RES3 fields for each measurement type, see relative MEASUREMENT ANSA card
# ID | ENTITY | RESULT | RES1 | RES2 | RES3
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2, Distance ,16.358025415265725 ,16.358025410250246 ,-0.0002873761173134426 ,-0.0002854849355173883
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Extracted Information

For each ANSA response, the following information is extracted:

Run Options

This node has general Run Options. The number of supported options is individual for each node.