How to change element type with Ansys user interface

Ingeniorator
Ingeniorator New Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi all,

 

how come that you can't change the element types when using the Ansys user interface in HM? It only is possible to review the elements, but the update button is missing. With the Optistruct or Abaqus UI, for example, the update button is available. Why is that and does this mean that the only method to change the element types is to use a different UI?

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  • Koushik Chandrashekhar_21806
    Koushik Chandrashekhar_21806
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2020

    Hi,

     

    You can change the element type in a different way.

    In Ansys user profile, Go to Utility Browser and then click on ET Type

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    Create a new ET Type as shown below:

     

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    Assign the ET Type with Element type you want to change it to.

     

    Then, go in the model browser and select that ET Type in the 'Type' field for the respective component as shown below:

     

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  • Ingeniorator
    Ingeniorator New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2020

    Thank you very much, that worked flawlessly. It also answered another question that came up concerning beam section properties which can be found in the utilities as well.

  • Koushik Chandrashekhar_21806
    Koushik Chandrashekhar_21806
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2020

    That's great! Glad it helped. 

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