There, you can search matid and find its value. thermal analysis described in Example of a Steady-State Thermal Analysis (Command or Batch Meth. You can also right-click on 'Solution', -> 'Open solver file directory', there is a ds.dat file which is the input file. This section describes how to use the menus on the ANSYS GUI to perform the same steady-state. However, to make the model run, you still need another line to define the section area, like this:Īfter you run the simulation, you can check the 'Solution information'-> 'Solver output' whether you have correctly defined the element type. The third row defines a section type, which defines a LINK section type, and the type id is MATID. However, LINK180 does not have keyopt(3), it only has keyopt(2) and keyopt(12) according to Ansys documentation I linked below. It is used to change some element related properties. This is what I am getting (as shown below). Then, I am opening the MatKMMF.text file. After applying the Boundary Condition, the stiffness matrix from MATLAB is as follows: I am using the dmat command to create the dense stiffness matrix. These commands are relevant to get the total number of components and the name of the first and second one. Hence, the stiffness matrix will be a ( 2x2) matrix.

The second row is to change the key option of the link element. Another way is to use just apdl commands to get the named selections since they are defined in the ds.dat as components (CM). What it does is to change your beam element type to 'LINK180'. The first row of command means defines an element type (ET). If you insert a command snippet to a part in Mechanical, in the comments of that snippet, you can see that MATID is the 'material number used for this body'. Hopefully, this response is not too late.

Ansys apdl command sfa