Condensed Part
Ansys Mechanical substructure viewer
Open an Ansys Mechanical Condensed Part (.cpa), check it and solve the reduced model for natural frequencies and effective masses.
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Highlights
- Reads the interface definitions and the binary substructure inside the archive
- Checks symmetry, rigid-body motions, total mass and centre of gravity against the recorded values
- Free-free modes by default, or clamp chosen interfaces; frequencies and effective mass per axis
- Animated mode shapes at the retained nodes, with node picking
- Bundled sample part to try before opening your own file
A question it answers
What are the first natural frequencies of this condensed part with its fixed-support face clamped, and how much mass does each mode move in X, Y and Z?What you put in
A .cpa file opened from disk, or the bundled sample (a 195-DOF part); a Clamp choice per interface, with Free-free, Clamp faces and Clamp all shortcuts; above 400 free DOFs, the number of flexible modes to compute (4 to 200); mode-shape playback phase, amplitude and speed; display toggles for outline, faces, nodes, labels, undeformed shape and declared-only interfaces.
What you get
3D view of the retained nodes (remote-point pilots, face-interface nodes and their faces), the part outline and its centre of gravity; a part summary (Ansys version, unit system, master and modal DOF counts, mass, centre of gravity); a mode table with frequency in Hz and effective mass per axis as a percentage, with flexible-mode totals; participation factors and effective masses of the selected mode; an animated mode shape at the retained nodes; node picking with the mode-shape displacement; and a status report of the consistency checks and solver convergence.
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