Contour plot of stresses in a specific body of an assembly using APDL

- October 4, 2023 at 1:24 am
  
  Asatur
  Subscriber
  
  Hello all,
  
  I am a complete novice in APDL. I am comparing the stresses (Transient Thermal + Static Structural) of a larger assembly for multiple geometries of its specific components. So, in order to be able to compare all cases on a unified scale, I need to adjust min and max values of stresses in all contour plots. I tried editing them directly on the contour plots. While the min value can be edited, the max value is not editable.
  
  Then, I came up with this post: /Contour Function on Mechanical APDL (ansys.com), which seems to solve my problem. However, I am not sure how to make /Contour work for individual specific bodies and surfaces.
  
  Any example or help would be highly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
- October 4, 2023 at 9:25 am
  
  Erik Kostson
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi
  So say we have two parts and added them (elements) into a component (use CM,CMENA,ELEM, and CM,CMTWO,ELEM ) and so we can select them separately via cmsel, then this plots (using /contour) stress results of them separately:
  /POST1
  SET, LAST
  CMSEL,S,CMENA
  NSLE
  PLNSOL, S,X,
  /CONTOUR,,,-11000,100,0
  /REPLOT
  /RESET
  ALLSEL,ALL
  CMSEL,S,CMTWO
  NSLE
  PLNSOL, S,X,
  /CONTOUR,,,-12000,100,0
  /REPLOT
  All the best
  Erik
- October 5, 2023 at 11:07 pm
  
  Asatur
  Subscriber
  
  Hi Erik,
  
  Thank you very much for your asnwer. So, if there are more than two objects, should I define them all? In fact, I have 49 objects. Would I need 49 blocks of this piece?

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