Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

to redirect text output from the screen to a file. For example, to redirect POST1 stress printout to a file,
the commands would be:

/OUTPUT,STRESS,OUT! Output to file STRESS.OUT

PRNSOL,COMP! Component stresses

/OUTPUT! Output back to screen

GUI equivalents for the /OUTPUT command are:

GUI:

Utility Menu> File> Switch Output to> File

Utility Menu> File> Switch Output to> Output Window

Table 20.5: Other Commands for Writing Files (p. 324) lists other file-write commands used during an
analysis are:

Table 20.5: Other Commands for Writing Files

Com- GUI Menu Path Purpose

mand

Writes the database to

Jobname.DB

SAVE Utility Menu> File> Save as

Writes parameters to Job-

name.PARM

PARSAV Utility Menu> Parameters> Save Parameters

Writes element definitions

to Jobname.ELEM

Main Menu> Preprocessor> Modeling> Create> Ele-

ments> Write Elem File

EWRITE

Writes node definitions to

Jobname.NODE

Main Menu> Preprocessor> Modeling> Create>

Nodes> Write Node File

NWRITE

Writes material properties

to Jobname.MP

Main Menu> Preprocessor> Loads> Other>

Change Mat Props> Write to File

Main Menu> Preprocessor> Material Props> Write to File

MP-

WRITE

Main Menu> Solution> Load Step Options> Other>

Change Mat Props> Write to File

You can also redirect graphics output (plots) from the screen to a neutral graphics file.

20.7. Assigning Different File Names

As mentioned earlier, you can use the /FILNAME command at the Begin level to assign a jobname for
all subsequently written files. Use the /ASSIGN command (Utility Menu> File> ANSYS File Options)
to assign a different name, extension, and directory to a file. For example, the following command re-
assigns the element matrix file (identifier EMAT ) to MYFILE.DAT in the "save_dir" directory:

/ASSIGN,EMAT,MYFILE,DAT,SAVE_DIR/

The "/" is a delimiter that separat es the directory name from the file name. It is system-dependent, so
you must use the delimiter(s) appropriate for your system. You can assign only a specific set of files.
Refer to the /ASSIGN command description (in the Command Reference) for the complete list.

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