lecture 3 autodyn user interface

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Lecture 3 AUTODYN User Interface

Introduction to ANSYS Autodyn part II


ANSYS®AUTODYN® User Interface

Create and View

Animations GIF, MPEG, AVI, GFA

Set Up Model

Interactively

Import Models LS-DYNA

Nastran

ICEM-CFD

Access Extensive

Material Library

Context-sensitive Help Linked to extensive

and readable HTML Manuals

Open Architecture User Subroutines

User Variables

Set Up

Parallel Processing Host Configuration

Decomposition

Load Balancing

Load / Save Model Startup Files

Restart Files

Run Analysis Interactively Visually Refreshed

Stop / Start at any time

Interrogate progress

View Results Advanced FE & CFD Visualization

Time Histories


Components of the User Interface

Pull-down

Menus

Dialog

Window

Tool Bar

View

Panel

Message

Panel

Navigation Bar

Command

Line Panel Dialog

Panel


Tool Bar

File Handling

Visualisation

Animation

Interactivity


Set Up A Model

Control The View

Run/Stop a Calculation

Navigation Bar


Use these buttons to manipulate your

image (translate, rotate, scale, e.t.c.)

Use these

buttons to

compose

your image

View Panel


Dialog Panel

Dialog Window

Help Cancel Accept

Button

opens

window

Dialog Panel and Dialog Windows


Message Panel

Command Line Panel

Message and Command Line Panels


Forced entry fields

New Model / Forced Entry Fields

• Ident and Symmetry are forced entry fields

– Must enter values before input is accepted by AUTODYN


AUTODYN Filenames

• Files associated with a particular model use the model Ident

In the filename Ident_0.ad Cycle 0 Save file

Ident_428.ad Cycle 428 Save file

Ident_0_428.adres Cycle 428 Results file

Ident.his History file

Ident.sum Summary file

Ident.prt Print file

Ident.log Log file

Ident.uhs User History file

Ident.fil Remap file


AUTODYN Filenames

• Other AUTODYN files

autodyn.ini AUTODYN initialization file

matlib_name.mlb Material library file

partlib_name.slb Part library file

setting_name.set Plot settings file

slide_name.seq Sequence file for slideshow

slide_name_nn.gif Slideshow files

animation_name.gif GIF animation file

animation_name.gfa GFA animation file


Integrated Help and Documentation AUTODYN Component System Help

• Part of ANSYS Help system

• Can be launched from AUTODYN GUI in various ways


Customized AUTODYN Startup

• Change startup options

– by using the Options > Default

Settings pull-down menu

– by directly editing the file

autodyn.ini

• If you have any visualization

problems, particularly with

creating and viewing slides /

animations, turn off the two

Hardware Acceleration Settings


Setup Options

Capture single

bitmap image slide

Capture multiple

bitmap image slides

Create a text slide

Compose slideshow

from bitmap image

slides

Generate GIF, AVI

or MPEG animations

Slideshows and Animations


Create a single 3D image or a sequence or 3D images

• No compose options

• GFA animation is created immediately following the capture of the single image or the sequence of images

• .gfa file extension

Playback using the AD ANSYS Viewer

• During playback

– Zoom

– Rotate

– Translate

Animation

Interactive Animations (GFA)


• Started by pressing View Slides button on the Navigation Bar

• Used to view GIF or GFA files

• Comprehensive set of buttons to control all aspects of the animations

AD ANSYS Viewer

GFA controls

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