Polar array or circular pattern in ANSYS

[Mir Z Shams]

Hi,
Can anyone advise me how to draw polar array or circular pattern of a geometry in ANSYS?
Please note that it is not for meshing. It is for drawing geometry.

Thank you,

Zed

[Mahendran R]

type CSYS,1

so that it will convert the coordinate system to polar form before u do ur geometric functions

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[Mir Z Shams]

But how do I assign number of elements in pattern and angle to fill ?

[Mahendran R]

do u want for meshing or for geometry creation

[Mir Z Shams]

I need it for geometry creation.

[Mahendran R]

then what i told will do fine,

 

if its not , send me in detail what u want to do i can write a macro for it

[Mir Z Shams]

After working according to your first tip, I get a feeling that it's working.
Let me keep working on it.
Thank you for your help.

[PAVAN JORWEKAR]

Hi,

 

You can create circular pattern in ANSYS. Create cylindrical co-ordinate system at the centre of the circular pattern with Z axis perpedicular to the plane of the pattern. Then go the command copy in preprocessing >modeling menu. Select the geometry for pattern, input number of copies and angle between two instances in Dy ( y offset in active CS). This will create circular pattern.

 

Regards,

Pavan

[Mir Z Shams]

Thanks, Pavan.
I will try this today and let you know.

Zed