[GiDlist] Animations of deformations in a time step analysis

[Jonas Forssell]

Hello,

I Use GID 6.1.2a to animate deformations from a crash simulation code which
uses
explicit time step solutions.

Each time step has a slightly different deformation for the mesh. These are
all possible to view in the traditional manner (using View Results -
Default time step / Deformation). The trouble begins when I want to animate
the steps.

The animation just shows the mesh in an undeformed state
for all time steps EXCEPT the one I have previously selected in the Window -
Mesh Deformation panel.

How can I make it show all of the deformations during the animation?

All the best
/Jonas Forssell, Gothenburg, Sweden

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[Miguel A. de Riera Pasenau]

Hello,
have you checked if the result's name is the same all the time steps?
in ftp://gid.cimne.upc.es/pub/gid/Examples
you can find the example: 'mensu.dat' and 'mensu.res' with
four steps. Each one of these steps has the result 'DESPLACEMENTS'
which can be used to deform the mesh. The name of this result, its type,
its location, remain the same for all the steps, and only the step value varies.
When the deformation is animated, GiD shows the 'original' state and
the four deformed ones with the same factor.

if your example still doesn't work, can you send us a short version
of the files, so we can take a lok into them?

miguel


Jonas Forssell wrote:

Hello,

I Use GID 6.1.2a to animate deformations from a crash simulation code which
uses
explicit time step solutions.

Each time step has a slightly different deformation for the mesh. These are
all possible to view in the traditional manner (using View Results -
Default time step / Deformation). The trouble begins when I want to animate
the steps.

The animation just shows the mesh in an undeformed state
for all time steps EXCEPT the one I have previously selected in the Window -
Mesh Deformation panel.

How can I make it show all of the deformations during the animation?

All the best
/Jonas Forssell, Gothenburg, Sweden

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