Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide - Ansys

Chapter 17: Animation
mode shapes of your analysis, the program stores the animation frames in a file called Jobname.AVI,
where Jobname is the jobname for the current ANSYS session. After completing this step, ANSYS starts
Media Player (located under Accessories). This application has a control panel that closely resembles the
controls of a videocassette player.
If you wish to animate contours, ANSYS displays a dialog box from which you can choose animation options.
After you supply this data, ANSYS generates the frames and Media Player displays them.
The Replay animation option starts Media Player. If you have stored an animation sequence during the current
ANSYS session, the file name associated with it is supplied to Media Player automatically.
You can animate other quantities, or do animation in other parts of ANSYS, via the /SEG command. You can
access this command directly through the ANSYS Input Window or Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Redirect Plots.
AVI files cannot be created directly in batch mode. If you are working in batch mode, you must save multiple
images to a single Jobname.GRPH file using the /SHOW command. After the batch run, you can open the
resulting Jobname.GRPH file in the DISPLAY program and then create an AVI file.
17.6.2. How the DISPLAY Program Supports AVI Files
If you have stored a series of graphics in an ANSYS graphics file, you can create an animation file of these
in the DISPLAY program.
Start the DISPLAY program and choose Display> Animate> Create on the menu bar. The following dialog
box appears.
Figure 17.3 ANSYS DISPLAY Program and the Create Animation Sequence Dialog Box
Specify the plots to be used during the animation in the File Name box and the delay time in seconds in
the Time Between Frames box. For example, if your Jobname.GRPH file contains 20 plots and you wish to
use every other plot in your animation, select 1 (for the beginning plot), 20 (for the end plot), and 2 (for the
increment). The Create function stores your animated sequence in the default file ANIM.AVI.
To replay your animation, use the Playback option, which starts Media Player.
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