Volume of each element in a mesh

- August 26, 2022 at 4:54 am
  
  alexandre.casadei
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  I'm having problems exporting information about the volume of each element of a mesh generated in Ansys mechanical.
  Is there any way I can access and/or export this data?
- August 26, 2022 at 12:09 pm
  
  Erik Kostson
  Ansys Employee
  
  It can be done probably by a combination of *GET (*GET, vele, ELEM,i,VOLU), then by saving these values *DIM (vols(i)=vele) in a *DO loop over all elements, and then finally write the array (*cfopen,vw1.out – *VWRITE,’Vol. is: ‘, vols(1) – (A12, E13.5) – *cfclose) to a file:
  
  Here is an example that shows some of this (except of *get, but the *get for the element volume is shown above).
  https://www.padtinc.com/2012/05/18/writing-text-files-with-vwrite/
  
  All the best
  Erik
- September 5, 2022 at 10:49 pm
  
  Mike Rife
  Ansys Employee
  
  alexandre.casadei Look up *vget in the help - it will be faster to use than *get.

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