D3PLOT 22.1
D3PLOT Representation of Elements and Other Entities
D3PLOT Representation of Elements and Other Entities
The three figures below show examples of how each of these types appear as drawn by D3PLOT. They also show the labelling conventions used:
| Entity Type |
Labelled
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Solids
Thin Shells Thick Shells |
H...
S... T... |
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Beams
Springs / Dampers Seat-belts Slip-rings Retractors Lumped-masses |
B...
SP.. SB.. SR.. RT.. LM.. |
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SPH Elements
Airbag Particles |
These elements may be drawn as points, cubes or spheres.
This is controlled in Display Options |
HP..
AP.. |
| Spotwelds of various types: |
*Constrained_Weld
*Constrained_Generalized_Weld *Element_Beam (spotweld beam) *Element_Solid (isolated solid spotweld) *Define_Hex_Spotweld_Assembly (solid spotweld cluster) |
CW..
GW.. BW.. HW.. HA.. |
| PRIMER Connections |
Rigid Bolts
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BR..
BB.. |
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SPCs
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SPC.. | |
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Contact Segments
Stonewalls Joints |
I...
W... J... |
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| Nodes |
N...
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| Cross Sections (*DATABASE_CROSS_SECTIONS) |
XSEC...
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| Loads of various types: |
*LOAD_NODE_POINT
*LOAD_NODE_SET *LOAD_BEAM *LOAD_BEAM_SET *LOAD_SHELL *LOAD_SHELL_SET *LOAD_SEGMENT *LOAD_SEGMENT_SET |
LND..
LNDS.. LBM.. LBMS.. LSH.. LSHS.. LSE.. LSES.. |
| Note the following: | |
| a) | Arbitrary numbering of nodes, elements and materials in Ansys LS-DYNA is supported. This covers nodes, solids, shells, beams, springs, seat-belt types and lumped-masses. Joints, stonewalls and contact segments are all numbered sequentially from 1. |
| b) | Springs, seat-belt types, lumped-masses, joints and stonewalls are only recovered and drawn if an "extra time-history" ( .XTF ) file is found - this file is optional. Only the topologies of these elements are extracted: use T/HIS to extract and plot time-history results for these elements. |
| c) | Contact segments are only recovered and drawn if a "contact force" ( .CTF ) file is found - this file is optional. |
| d) | These figures show the symbols used on 2D devices. When 3D graphics is used some symbols are slightly different: springs become a spiral, damper symbols become a three-dimensional dashpot, joint circles become spherical, "thick" beams have rectangular sections. This is done to make symbols meaningful regardless of how the view is oriented in 3D space. |
 Solids shells and thick shells |
Springs, beams, lumped masses and seatbelt elements |
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