Step 17: Save Your Work

When you began this tutorial, you loaded a solver results file. When you save the work you have done in CFD-Post, you save the current state of CFD-Post into a CFD-Post State file ( .cst).

1.   How you save your work depends on whether you are running CFD-Post standalone or from within ANSYS Workbench:

• From CFD-Post standalone:

  (a)   From the menu bar, select File/Save State.

  This operation saves the expression, custom variable, and the settings for the objects in a .cst file and saves the state of the animation in a .can file. The .cas.gz and .cdat.gz files remain unchanged.

  (b)   A Warning dialog asks if you want to save the animation state. Click OK.

  (c)   Optionally, confirm the state file's contents: close the current file from the menu bar by selecting File / Close (or press Ctrl+ W) then reload the state file (select File / Load State and choose the file that you saved in step 1.)

• From ANSYS Workbench:

  (a)   From the CFD-Post menu bar, select File/Quit. ANSYS Workbench saves the state file automatically.

  (b)   In the ANSYS Workbench Project Schematic, double-click on the Results cell. CFD-Post re-opens with the state file loaded.

2.   Save a picture of the current state of the simulation: in the Outline view, show Contour 1. With the focus in the 3D Viewer, click the Save Picture icon from the tool bar. In the Save Picture dialog box, click Save. A PNG file of the current state of the viewer is saved to <casename>.png (e.g., elbow1.png) in your working directory.

3.   You can recreate the animation you made in the previous section and save it to a file:

(a)   Click on the cyan (ISO) sphere in the triad to orient the elbow to display Plane 1.

(b)   In the Outline view, clear Contour 1 and show Plane 1.

(c)   Right-click on Plane 1 in the 3D Viewer and select Animate. The Animation dialog appears and the plane moves through the entire domain.

(d)   Click the stop icon .

(e)   If necessary, display the full animation control set by clicking .

(f)   The Repeat is set to infinity; change the value to 1 by clicking the infinity button. The Repeat field becomes enabled and by default is set to one.

(g)   Enable Save Movie to save the animation to the indicated file.

(h)   Click the Play the animation icon .

The plane moves through one cycle.

You can now go to your working directory and play the animation file in an appropriate viewer.

4.   Click Close to close the Animation dialog.

5.   Close CFD-Post: from the tool bar select File/Quit. If prompted, you may save your changes.