ansys-apdl-to-vtk

ansys-apdl-to-vtk

APDL Script to write elemental or nodal results from ANSYS Mechanical APDL to an unstructured VTK file. Script is a modified version taken from Pastebin-Link (an explanation is given in this Stackoverflow discussion). I have modified the script to besser fit my needs and also to work for elemental result exports. Please make sure to run

sed -i -e 's/ \{2,\}/ /g' -e 's/^ //g' -e 's/\r$//g' -e 's/ $//g' ansys_res_out.vtk

under Linux (or an equivalent command in Windows) to make the generated vtk file readable for ParaView. This is necessary due to the limited writing capabilities of APDL.