Starting Tosca Structure.report in Tosca ANSA® environment

This task shows you how to generate a report in Tosca ANSA® environment.

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CONTOURPLOT

  1. In the Task manager select POST-PROCESSING > GENERATE_REPORT_FILE.

  2. Right-click Edit.

    The REPORT_FILE_SETTINGS dialog opens.

  3. Choose a job for report generation.

  4. To create an animation sequence for postprocessing, choose New > CONTOUR_PLOT and edit CONTOUR_PLOT PARAMETERS as shown in the following figure.

    CONTOUR_PLOT parameters

    ITERATION

    ALL | LAST

    Iteration(s) added to report

    TYPE_PROPERTY

    ELEMENT FILL FILTER

    Topology optimization results (material distribution)
     

    NODAL CONTINUOUS (SHAPE)

    Shape optimization results (model with optimization displacements), plus the controller input values as fringe plot
     

    NODAL DISPLACEMENT(SHAPE)

    Shape optimization results (model with optimization displacements), plus the optimization displacements as fringe plot
     

    NODAL CONTINUOUS (BEAD)

    Bead optimization results (model with optimization displacements), plus the controller input values as fringe plot
     

    NODAL DISPLACEMENT (BEAD)

    Bead optimization results (model with optimization displacements), plus the optimization displacements as fringe plot
     

    MODEL

    Initial geometry without groups
     

    MODEL AND SETS

    Initial geometry and groups from GROUPS.onf file

    FILTER MIN (MAX)

    <value>

    minimum and maximum value for filtering. Applies only for TYPE_PROPERTY = ELEMENT FILL FILTER. No or both values have to be set.

    FRINGE MIN (MAX)

    <value>

    minimum and maximum value for fringe. Applies for Shape and Bead results. No or both values have to be set.



  5. To start Tosca Structure.report, select Update.

  6. To start the produced VTFX report file in Tosca Structure.view, in GENERATE_REPORT_FILE select New > VTF_VISUALIZATION > VIEW.

    Note: It is necessary to close Tosca Structure.view window in order to continue working with Tosca ANSA® environment.

Per default SIMULIA Tosca Structure produces a standard report file at the end of each optimization run.The files produced by Tosca Structure.report are located in the subdirectory TOSCA_POST of the job directory.

The default name of the output file is: 

    TOSCA_POST/GENERATE_REPORT_FILE.vtfx

If the item GENERATE_REPORT_FILE is renamed, the output file names will contain the new name of the item instead of GENERATE_REPORT_FILE. This way, it is possible to save the results of Tosca Structure.report generated with different settings under different file names.