Chapter 2

AUTODYN User Interface

IIntroduction
t d ti to t ANSYS
AUTODYN

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Components of the User Interface Training Manual

Pull-down
Tool Bar
Menus

Dialog
Window

Navigation Bar

View
Panel

Dialog Message Command

Panel Panel Line Panel
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Tool Bar Training Manual

File Handling

Visualisation

Animation

Interactivity

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Navigation Bar Training Manual

Set Up A Model

Control The View

Run/Stop a Calculation

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View Panel Training Manual

Use these buttons to manipulate your

image (translate, rotate, scale, e.t.c.)

Use these
buttons to
compose
your image

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Dialog Panel and Dialog Windows Training Manual

Dialog Panel
Dialog Window

Button
opens
window Help Cancel Accept

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Message and Command Line Panels Training Manual

Message Panel

Command Line Panel

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New Model / Forced Entry Fields Training Manual

• Ident and Symmetry are forced entry fields

– Must enter values before input is accepted by AUTODYN

Forced entry fields

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AUTODYN Filenames Training Manual

• Files associated with a particular model use the model Ident

In the filename
Ident_0.ad Cycle 0 Save file

Ident_428.ad Cycle 428 Save file

Ident_0_428.adres Cycle 428 Results file

Ident.his History file

Ident.sum Summary file

Ident.prt Print file

Ident.log Log file

Ident.uhs User History file

Ident.fil Remap file

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• Other AUTODYN files

autodyn.ini AUTODYN initialization file
matlib_name.mlb Material library file

partlib_name.slb Part library file

setting_name.set Plot settings file

slide_name.seq Sequence file for slideshow

slide_name_nn.gif Slideshow files

animation_name.gif GIF animation file

animation name gfa

animation_name.gfa GFA animation file

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Context-sensitive Help Training Manual

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Context-sensitive Help Training Manual

• If you cannot start the AUTODYN

online help by selecting Contents in
the Help pull-down menu, you
probably need to change a security
setting

– Go to Control Panel -> Internet

Options
– Under the Advanced tab check
the option “Allow
Allow active content
to run in files on My Computer”
– Restart your computer

• You can also open the main help

page directly from the Start Menu

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• Access detailed information on each material model by pressing

next to the modelling option

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Customized AUTODYN Startup Training Manual

• Change startup options

– by using the Options > Default
Settings
g ppull-down menu

– by directly editing the file

autodyn.ini

• If you have
h any visualization
i li ti
problems, particularly with
creating and viewing slides /
animations,, turn off the two
Hardware Acceleration Settings

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Bitmaps, Slideshows and Animations Training Manual

Compose slideshow
C lid h
from bitmap image Setup Options
slides

Capture single
bitmap image slide

Capture multiple
bitmap image slides

Create a text slide

Generate GIF, AVI

or MPEG animations

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Interactive Animations (GFA) Training Manual

• Create a single 3D image or a

sequence or 3D images
Animation
– No compose options

– GFA animation is created immediately

following the capture of the single image or
the sequence of images

– .gfa file extension

• Playback using the AD ANSYS

Viewer
– During playback
• Zoom

• Rotate

• Translate

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AD ANSYS Viewer Training Manual

• Started by pressing
View Slides button
on the Navigation
Bar

• Used to view GIF

or GFA files

• Comprehensive set
of buttons to control
allll aspects
t off the
th
animations

GFA controls

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