Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide - Ansys

If your analysis is either static or full transient, you can use the options on the menu to complete the solution
phase of your analysis. However, if you select a different analysis type, the default abridged Solution menu
that you see above will be replaced by a different Solution menu. The new menu will be appropriate for
the analysis type you select.
All variants of the abridged Solution menu contain an Unabridged Menu option. This option is always
available for you to select in case you prefer using the unabridged menu.
If you do one analysis and then choose to do a new analysis within the same ANSYS session, ANSYS will (by
default) present you with the same type of Solution menu that you used for the first analysis. For example,
if you choose to use the unabridged Solution menu to perform a static analysis and then select a new
buckling analysis, ANSYS presents you with the unabridged Solution menu that is appropriate for buckling
analyses. However, you can toggle between the unabridged and abridged Solution menus at any time
during the solution phase of the analysis by selecting the appropriate menu option (Main Menu> Solution>
Unabridged Menu or Main Menu> Solution> Abridged Menu).
5.4.2. Using the Solution Controls Dialog Box
If you are performing a structural static or full transient analysis, you can use a streamlined solution interface
(called the Solution Controls dialog box) for setting many of your analysis options. The Solution Controls
dialog box consists of five tabbed “pages,” each of which contains a set of related solution controls. The
dialog box is useful for specifying the settings for each load step of a multiple load step analysis.
As long as you are performing a structural static or full transient analysis, your Solution menu will contain
the Sol'n Control option. When you click the Sol'n Control menu item, the Solution Controls dialog box
appears. This dialog box provides you with a single interface for setting analysis and load step options. See
Figure 5.1 (p. 107) for an illustration.
Figure 5.1 Solution Controls Dialog Box
The Basic tab, which is shown above, is active when you access the dialog box. The complete list of tabs,
in order from left to right, is as follows:
• Basic
• Transient
• Sol'n Options
• Nonlinear
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