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The following ANSYS command listing, shows some of the commonly used programming features in
the ANSYS command file language known as ADPL (ANSYS Parametric Design Language). It
illustrates:
entering parameters (variables)
prompting the user for parameters
performing calculations with paramaters; note that the syntax and functions are similar to
FORTRAN
control structures
if - then - else - endif
looping
This example file does not do anything really useful in itself besides generate keypoints along a line, but
it does illustrate some of the "programming features" of the ANSYS command language.

Comments
MecE 563
Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta

ANSYS Inc.

Copyright 2001
University of Alberta

!
/PREP7
! preprocessor phase
!
x1 = 5
! define some parameters
x2 = 10
*ask,ndivs,Enter number of divisions (default 5),5
!
! the above command prompts the user for input to be entered into the
! variable "ndivs"; if only is entered, a default of "5" is used
!
*IF,ndivs,GT,1,THEN
! if "ndivs" is greater than "1"
dx = (x2-x1)/ndivs
*DO,i,1,ndivs+1,1
! do i = 1, ndivs + 1 (in steps of one)
x = x1 + dx*(i-1)
k,i,x,0,0
*ENDDO
*ELSE
k,1,x1,0,0
k,2,x2,0,0
*ENDIF
!
/pnum,kp,1
! turn keypoint numbering on
kplot
! plot keypoints
klist,all,,,coord
! list all keypoints with coordinates

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