Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

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/SEG,OFF! Turns off the frame-capture function

ANIM,15! Cycles through the stored sequence 15 times

To create the series of frames for your animation sequence, you can either issue a frame-by-frame series
of graphics action commands, or you can invoke a predefined ANSYS macro to automatically generate
the sequence. The predefined macros are ANCNTR,ANCUT,ANDATA,ANDSCL,ANFLOW,ANHARM,
ANISOS,ANMODE,ANTIME, and ANDYNA.

The available amount of local segment or pixmap memory, and the memory requirements of each frame
limit the number of frames you can include in an animated sequence. On most workstations and PCs,
the amount of memory required depends on the number of pixels (for example, screen dots) in each
frame. On X-window devices, reducing the size of your graphics window reduces the number of pixels,
yielding a longer achievable animation run.

Although you can create animations of multiple ANSYS window schemes, animations created with
OpenGL display lists (/DV3D, ANIM, 0) do not retain the windowing scheme information. You CAN save
multiple windows via the X11/WIN32 drivers, or via the OpenGL driver with /DV3D, ANIM, KEY in effect
(where KEY is not zero).

17.3. Using One-Step Animation Macros

A better alternative to the basic animation commands is to use these specialized "one-step" animation
macros:

• ANCNTR (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Deformed Results) produces an animated sequence
  of a contoured deformed shape in POST1. Before using the macro, you need to execute a display
  command that contains deformation, contouring, or both (such as PLNSOL,S,EQV).


• ANCYC (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Cyc Traveling Wave) applies a traveling wave animation
  to graphics data in a modal cyclic symmetry analysis in POST1. For more information, see Applying
  a Traveling Wave Animation to the Cyclic Model.


• ANCUT (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Q-Slice Contours or Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate>
  Q-Slice Vectors) produces an animated sequence of a cutting plane through a contoured deformed
  shape in POST1. Before using this macro, you need to execute a display command that contains
  contouring.


• ANDATA (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Over Results) produces a sequential contour animation
  over a range of results data. This macro allows you to create an animation sequence based on the
  last plot action command (e.g.PLDISP).


• ANDSCL (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Deformed Shape) produces an animated sequence
  of a deformed shape in the POST1 postprocessor. Before you use the ANDSCL macro, you must execute
  a display command that contains deformation (such as the PLDISP command).


• ANFLOW (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Particle Flow) produces an animated sequence of
  particle flow or charged particle motion. Before using this macro, you need to execute a command
  that produces particle flow trace on an element display (i.e.,PLTRAC).


• ANHARM (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Time-harmonic) produces a time-transient animation
  of time-harmonic results of the last plot action command (for example,PLNSOL,B,SUM). The animation
  converts the complex solution variables (real and imaginary sets) into time varying results over one
  period.

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