Im trying to create a small solid spheres inside a rectangular box in ansys. im currently working in MATLAB writing a code to generate spheres but im not sure how to import it to ANSYS. Does anyone know hot to do it?
This is the MATLAB code
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% length, width and height of box
L = 3; W = 2; H = 1;
% pick plenty of random points
x = L*rand(1,100); %x-coordinate of a point
y = W*rand(1,100); %y-coordinate of a point
z = H*rand(1,100); %z-coordinate of a point
blob = 10;
plot3(x, y, z,'o', 'MarkerFaceColor','b','MarkerEdgeColor','b','MarkerSize',blob);
box
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Hi Jehan,
To couple Ansys to Matlab, you can follow the steps below:
1: Write your Ansys script in the text creation software like this "Notepad"
2: When you write your batch file for running in Ansys save it in your MATLAB working directory, for example:
C:\Users\thiago\Matlab-ansys
3: In MATLAB editor page you need a line to run Ansys from your MATLAB program. This line is like this:
!"C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v160\ansys\bin\winx64\ANSYS160" -b -i FEAinR.txt -o FEAoutR.txt
4: For above line as you see, it starts with ! then you must insert path of Ansys in " ". To run the folder, you need to find out where you installed ANSYS160 in your PC
after pase your Ansys exe path, then insert -b -i FEAinR.txt -o FEAoutR.txt
5: FEAinR.txt is your Ansys script file you saved it in your Matlab working directory and FEAoutR.txt is your output Ansys results. To create it use "Notepad" and create a blank or empty file and save it with this name FEAoutR in the same directory by txt extension.
(Here, you can choose any name, but it should have a txt extension)
6: Finish
When your Matlab program reaches to this line, runs it and store result in output file.
** Many files are seen in your directory. For instance file.err tells you about errors may arise during running
I applied this procedure to Ansys APDL, but I think that steps for space claim it is the same.
If you have more questions about this process, this video can help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO7k4Umg2VE
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