Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide - Ansys

Chapter 17: Animation
The ANIMATE program is included with ANSYS on Windows. The program is located in the bin\intel
directory, and requires no license keys or passwords to install. It provides better frame-speed and windowsize
control than the standard Windows Media Player, and is small enough to be transported or e-mailed
with your other analysis files.
17.5.1. Installing the ANIMATE Program
In order to install and successfully run the ANIMATE program on a Windows system, you must ensure that
the Windows registry has been modified to recognize the required DLL. To do this, navigate in a command
window (Start> Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt) to the Program Files\ANSYS
Inc\V130\ANSYS\bin\intel (or winx64) directory and run regsvr32.exe on DSGStreamU.dll.
You do this by running the file using the specific path, which in most cases is C:\winnt\system32 (check
to ensure that this is the path for your system).
For example, while in the directory containing the DLL file, run:
C:\winnt\system32\regsvr32 DSGStreamU.dll
17.5.2. Running the ANIMATE Program
In order to convert your UNIX animations, the ANIM files must be transferred to the Windows file system.
This can be done using FTP protocols, or with SAMBA or some other file system transfer utility. Once the
ANIM files are accessible, they can be opened directly.
The controls provided for the ANIMATE program are nearly identical to those found in the ANSYS animation
controller. When you start the program, the panel shown below is displayed.
Figure 17.1 The ANIMATE Program Display
You can access the following operations from the initial program display:
• File: Allows you to open AVI or ANIM files and to save these files in True Color AVI or 256 Color format.
• Options: Allows you to pop up the ANIMATION CONTROLLER, and to choose from six different screen
sizes for the animation window.
• View: Allows you to toggle (ON or OFF) the display of the TOOLBAR (icons at the top of the screen)
and the display of the STATUS BAR (read out at the bottom).
• Help: Displays information about the program.
Once you load an animation file, you can use the ANIMATION CONTROLLER for a number of playback options.
The ANIMATION CONTROLLER is shown below:
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