May 25, 2023 at 12:31 pm
John Miller
Subscriber

Hello Chandra,

thank you for the helpfull answer.

When I apply the mentioned lines to my code:

 

nodeid=27844

/post26
nsol,2,node,nodeid,temp !Specifies nodal data to be stored from the results file
prvar,2                              !Lists variables vs. time (or frequency).
plvar,2                              !Displays up to ten variables in the form of a graph.

/out,d:\mypvar.dat
prvar,2
/out
/show,png
plvar,2
/show,close

 

this is the outcome in the solve.out file:

 

          ***** TIME-HISTORY POSTPROCESSOR (POST26) *****

 ALL POST26 SPECIFICATIONS ARE RESET TO INITIAL DEFAULTS

 *** WARNING ***                         CP =     418.125   TIME= 13:48:41
 The data in field 3 is invalid.  The NSOL command is ignored.           

 *** WARNING ***                         CP =     418.125   TIME= 13:48:41
 No data points are saved during this storage step.                      

 /OUTPUT FILE= d:\mypvar.dat

 /SHOW SWITCH PLOTS TO  PNG         - RASTER MODE.

 Set Encoding of XML File to:ISO-8859-1

 Set Output of XML File to:
     PARM,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,
         ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,     ,

 DATABASE WRITTEN ON FILE  parm.xml                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            


 ***** ROUTINE COMPLETED *****  CP =       419.062

 

 PRINTOUT RESUMED BY /GOP

 *GET  _WALLDONE  FROM  ACTI  ITEM=TIME WALL  VALUE=  13.8116667    

 PARAMETER _PREPTIME =     1.000000000    

 PARAMETER _SOLVTIME =     150.0000000    

 PARAMETER _POSTTIME =     4.000000000    

 PARAMETER _TOTALTIM =     155.0000000    

 *GET  _DLBRATIO  FROM  ACTI  ITEM=SOLU DLBR  VALUE=  0.00000000    

 *GET  _COMBTIME  FROM  ACTI  ITEM=SOLU COMB  VALUE=  0.00000000    

 *GET  _SSMODE   FROM  ACTI  ITEM=SOLU SSMM  VALUE=  2.00000000    

 *GET  _NDOFS    FROM  ACTI  ITEM=SOLU NDOF  VALUE=  122196.000    
 --- Total number of nodes = 283054
 --- Total number of elements = 84182
 --- Element load balance ratio = 0
 --- Time to combine distributed files = 0
 --- Sparse memory mode = 2
 --- Number of DOF = 122196

 EXIT ANSYS WITHOUT SAVING DATABASE


 NUMBER OF WARNING MESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=         30
 NUMBER OF ERROR   MESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=          0

 

Obviously, the nodal data isn't stored at all.

 

With best regards

John M.