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Table of Contents

  1. Version 20.7.0
  2. Version 20.6.0, 15 years of APDL-Mode!
  3. Version 20.5.0
  4. Version 20.4.0
  5. Version 20.3.0
  6. Version 20.2.0
  7. Version 20.1.1
  8. Version 20.1.0
  9. Version 162-1
  10. Version 16.1.1
  11. Version 15.0.1
  12. Version 14.5.2
  13. Version 14.5.1
  14. Version 14.0.1
  15. Version 13.0.1
  16. Version 12.0.1
  17. Version 11.0.2
  18. ansys-mode.el 11.0.1

Copyright (C) 2006 - 2021 H. Dieter Wilhelm, GPL V3

Version 20.7.0

  • new APDL menu entry: Browse the Customer Portal of Ansys

Version 20.6.0, 15 years of APDL-Mode!

Improvements, extensions and bug fixes, 2021-09-26 rc1

  • Implemented batch runs with the current script (now C-c C-y) and jobname.out inspection (now C-c C-o).
  • Add new keyinding C-c C-n for apdl-no-of-processors
  • Improved highlighting of user variables
  • Improved borderline cases of M-?, the command parameter help
  • Enhanced abbreviations, for example "`ss" (interactive section-separator).
  • Improved and updated documentation, for example see the pdf version of the introductory tutorial
  • Added customisation section for user templates
  • Outline-minor-mode is now activated by default, with + (Emacs 28.1) its folding features became even more helpful for larger macro files
  • apdl-start-classic and -start-launcher are now auto-loaded commands (They can be run from the mini buffer (M-x), without having a file under `apdl-mode')

Version 20.5.0

2020-05, help for get- and parametric functions

  • Browsing the help on keywords (C-c C-b) is now working for get- and parametric functions (additionally to all APDL commands and element names).
  • Line numbers in the Variable Buffer (C-c C-v) are now links to the respective position in its APDL Buffer. Clicking with mouse-2 on the numbers is displaying the definition in the APDL Buffer.
  • Added license overview with Ansys license feature descriptions to `apdl-license-status' (C-c C-l).
  • Added a menu entry for opening the main Ansys online help page.

Version 20.4.0

2020-04, Updated keywords with Ansys 2020R1

  • Updated keyword- and completion system to Ansys 2020R1 (v201)
  • Added documentation in GNU Info format and modified the menu entry APDL-Mode Online Documentation to APDL-Mode Documentation (C-c C-h) which points to the GNU-Emacs internal Info Viewer.
  • Added a menu entry for displaying the user's taken licenses
  • Files with the suffixes ".mac", ".dat" and ".inp" are opened in apdl-mode without further user configuration.
  • Added additional keys for the license status functions

Version 20.3.0

2020-03, Melpa installation

  • You can now install APDL-Mode from the Melpa package archive!
  • Added a new menu entry for browsing interactively the documentation for keywords
  • Added new function templates in the menu
  • EWW browser for the local help is now opening in a different "Window" and is not hiding the APDL buffer any longer
  • Added Ruler Mode to the helper modes
  • Added customisation section for Workbench / Discover Aim templates
  • Improved initialisation of Ansys installation dependent parameters

Version 20.2.0

2020-03, Updated keywords to Ansys v195

  • Added a template preview system for Workbench `Command (APDL)' objects with the keybinding `C-c C-w' (this keybinding was formerly used for starting WorkBench).
  • Improved the automated configuration of Ansys installation dependent components
  • Made M-? (the parameter help) robuster, command names can now be changed when the help overlay is visible
  • Updated documentation and completions for keywords, elements, etc. to v195 (some to v201)
  • A-M can call a browser for the Ansys online-help (you don't have to install the local Ansys help package, though it is advisable because of speed reasons.

Version 20.1.1

2020-02, Bug-fix release

  • Renamed apdl-browse-apdl-guide to apdl-browse-ansys-apdl-manual
  • Improved configuration documentation
  • Enabled EWW (and other browsers) as a "help viewer"

Version 20.1.0

Released 2020-02

  • Changed the name to APDL-Mode
  • Changed version naming scheme (package.el format)
  • Installation now with Emacs' packaging system
  • Added key-bindings to the license buffer Licenses (C-c C-l) o - occur search g - refresh license status q - bury the license buffer Q - quit license buffer
  • Better warning for C-c C-b when A-M is not configured

Version 162-1

not yet released, targeted for Sep 2015

  • Sending code to the ANYSClassics GUI is now possible as well, not only to the restricted interactive solver (currently only on GNU-Linux and Unix with C-c C-j, C-c C-u, C-c C-c).
  • Checking available licenses - in a fast and simple way - is now also available on Windows platforms with "C-c C-l".
  • Reorganised and simplified the installation and configuration. Made the initialisation defaults more intelligent, i. e. searching for installation paths with environment variables, etc.
  • New customisation variable `ansys-parameter-help-duration' for adjusting the display duration of the `ansys-show-command-parameters' overlay.
  • Reorganised and improved the menu items, separated general Ansys tasks from APDL coding with two main menu Entries: A-Mode and Ansys.
  • New functions: Reading the original APDL guide and Ansys-Mode's documentation in a Browser, opening an empty buffer in Ansys-Mode, ansys-start-launcher, ansys-start-classics, …
  • The command `C-c C-j' does now recognise blocks (APDL loops and control structures), which is to say it copies or sends complete logical blocks to the interpreter instead of only the current code line.
  • Changed Ansys-Mode's versioning scheme from 16.2.1 to 162-1

Version 16.1.1

July 2015

  • The command `ansys-show-command-parameters' (M-?) does additionally count the number of parameters and visualise at which parameter position the cursor currently is. This tool-tip can now be switched off with a prefix argument of zero.
  • The command `ansys-send-to-ansys-and-proceed' (C-c C-j) is now interactive, i. e. after invoking this command with its key-sequence "C-c C-j" it can be repeated by typing just the final character "j" (or "C-j").
  • The command `ansys-send-to-ansys' (C-c C-c) grabs now the current paragraph, when there is no region marked. And the cursor doesn't skip to the next code line without a prefix argument "C-u".
  • The output buffer Ansys of the interpreter commands might now reside on a another Emacs frame.
  • switched on truncation of lines for Ansys-Mode buffers, e. g. it is easier to read when there are many parameters in the ansys-show-parameter-help.
  • Extended the APDL material library which includes now creep and multi-linear plasticity data in matlib/ as well.
  • Is packaged with the current stable version Emacs-24.5 and updated for Ansys 16. Besides the Windows version there is also now a source package available for compiling Emacs-24.5 together with Ansys-Mode.
  • Renamed README, NEWS and TODO to *.org, fontification.mac to example.mac. Included an example.dat and example.anf

Version 15.0.1

Aug 2014

  • Added an example of an Ansys material library
  • C-c C-c (ansys-send-to-ansys) doesn't skip to the next code line any longer but remains in the code line. The former behaviour borrows the new function C-c C-j (ansys-send-to-ansys-and-proceed), executing and then skipping to the next code.
  • Improved the `ansys-show-blabla…
  • Highlighted now the parametric function CXABS(), which was already introduced in V14.
  • Updated the help, completion and highlighting functionality to V15 And as usual: Corrected some bugs, typos and extended the templates, e. g. partial solutions with psolve for mass calculations.

Version 14.5.2

Mar 2013

  • The unwieldy and usually uninteresting pure number blocks (the nblock, eblocks and cmblocks) in files with the suffix .dat are now hidden by default. WorkBench creates these blocks in input files for the solver. You can, off course, unhide these blocks and inspect them as well.

    Functions: `ansys-hide-number-blocks', `ansys-show-number-blocks', `ansys-hide-region'

    Customising variables: `ansys-hide-region-before-string', `ansys-hide-region-after-string' and `ansys-hide-region-propertize-markers'

  • Added a way for showing the current value and status of a user variable at point, overcoming the drawback of C-c C-v `ansys-display-variables' that it is showing only the variable definitions and definitions coming from external files are not shown. You can activate this functionality (Linux only) with a prefix argument: C-u C-c C-v.

  • Fixed the completion and highlighting of command keywords and their help entries, in the previous release were unfortunately many keywords missing or entries incomplete.

  • As always: Enhancements and corrections for the APDL templates, added a beam simulation template

Version 14.5.1

Sep 2012

  • Added a function (C-c C-b or "M-x ansys-browse-ansys-help") showing the detailed Ansys help in your web-browser for an APDL command or element name (also the element number is sufficient) around the cursor (or if that fails at the line beginning).

    Are you also tired of the Ansys help browser? For example try searching for the `F' APDL command, it is impossible! (update 2014: This has improved with the new help viewer in V15.) You have to pick it up from the alphabetical command list. Likewise when you are searching for an incomplete keyword, no hint, no completion, nothing! Finding and browsing relevant APDL documentation is still cumbersome and too slow.

    As a highlight of this release you can now read immediately the detailed Ansys help in your web browser for all APDL command AND element names around the cursor (or for the first command in the current line if that fails to be valid keyword). You may input your search string also interactively, including its completion to Ansys help keywords and of certain help categories, like `Release Notes' and such. This is an ideal complement to Ansys-Mode's in-built `command syntax help'.

  • The function `ansys-start-ansys' is now available under Windows as well and starts the APDL product launcher under this platform.

  • When calling `ansys-browse-ansys-help' and `ansys-show-command-parameters' (M-? - the in-built `command syntax help') with a prefix argument for interactively entering a command name, the name is now completable. And in the non-interactive mode both functions working also for APDL commands which are commented out as well (only for the first command in case of `ansys-show-command-parameters').

  • Also the input of `ansys-query-ansys-command' (C-c C-q) is now completable to all current Ansys commands and with an optional prefix argument the current code line is copied as the initial input.

  • Improved the introductory and the in-depth tutorial and extended the documentation with an APDL and syntax highlighting reference in HTML and PDF. (To some degree syntax highlighted in the PDF version as well)

  • Values of the `RETURN' variable are now documented in the function `ansys-skeleton-information'

  • `ansys-next-code-line' and `ansys-previous-code-line' (M-n, M-p) are now skipping over node and elements blocks, which are only pure number blocks. They are now alternatives to `ansys-number-block-start' C-c { and C-c } respectively

  • Removed bug in customisation system and dropped 32 bit Ansys support in line with the Ansys OS [https://www.ansys.com/Support/Platform+Support strategy] for 2013.

  • Described a poor man's round() workaround in ansys-template-function under the nint() entry

Version 14.0.1

June 2012

  • Enhanced the documentation, included is now an introductory tutorial `ansys-modetutorial.pdf' and a hands-on tutorial `APDLtutorial.pdf'
  • Added a timer for getting rid of the parameter help overlays after some time interval (1 min) without reusing the parameter help
  • Added a (customisable) variable `ansys-no-of-processors' and function with the same name for specifying the number of processors for an Ansys multiprocessor run
  • Activated outline-minor-mode and auto-insertion (in defaultel)
  • Extended mode commands, templates and removed typos mainly in ansys-template.el. For example added all *get functions in the ansys-skeleton-function template
  • Added a custom variable the corresponding function ansys-ansysli-servers for specifying the ansys interconnect license servers
  • Added a new shortcut and menu entry isometric view
  • Applied sensible defaults to ansys-lmutil-program, ansys-program and ansys-help-program, for most needs it should now be enough just to set the used ansys version (ansys-current-ansys-version, if it is not 140, see the example configuration file defaultel) and maybe additionally the installation directory (ansys-install-directory).

Version 13.0.1

March 2011

  • Added support for aligning whole sections of Ansys variable definitions, both in the Ansys menu and as a keyboard shortcut 'C-c C-a'
  • Enhanced ansys-display-skeleton with an optional argument for inserting the respective skeleton in the APDL buffer.
  • Enhanced some "interactive" code templates with lists for completing the input and sensible defaults
  • Refined some abbreviation definitions and focused the display of abbreviations to the mode specific ones
  • Fixed insert pair functions, like 'C-c %'
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for calling the Ansys help to 'C-c C-h'
  • Updated keyword list, deprecated elements, undocumented commands, etc. to release 13.0 of Ansys, as usual.

Version 12.0.1

Dec 2010

  • Some new graphics commands like ansys-zoom-in, -zoom-out, -move-left, -right, -up, -down, etc.
  • The lisp code had to be split up for better maintenance, the code files for are now provided in an archive together with their compiled state for speed reasons.
  • Reworked the highlighting mainly for the sake of speed. There are now highlighting levels to choose from, offering e. g. highlighting of deprecated element types in a warning-face, deprecated Ansys * comments and so on
  • Updated and improved the readability of the mode's help and the README file
  • The output from the LMUtil license status tool (C-c C-l) is now filtered on UNIX to be more concise.
  • The `ansys-send-to-ansys' (C-c C-c) and the ansys-copy-or-send-above (C-c C-u) commands are now generalised so that they are also doing some useful stuff without a running Ansys interpreter process (they copy in that case the cursor line/the chosen region and copy from the file beginning to the cursor line, respectively, to the clipboard). Given a prefix argument to these commands, the cursor won't move to the next code line.
  • The completion of Ansys keywords is reworked and has improved. Ansys symbols are now completed in 3 ways: Up-case, down-case and capitalise.
  • New: Added tool-tips to all Ansys menu entries. Activated or deactivated menu entries according to the context
  • Ansys mode tries to gather information from the OS environment when the variable `ansys-license-file' is not set by the user and uses now Ansys standard names as default values for some more variables.
  • The variables in the variable summary are now sorted according to their first occurrence and not any longer in "definition types". Now component names are included with the variable highlighting.
  • Added menu entry for reloading Ansys Mode for the case when certain customisation options in the code files itself are changed and require a code reloading to take effect.
  • Ansys mode changes some Emacs default behaviour to smooth the transition from other editors

Version 11.0.2

Nov 2009

  • Enabled the preview of code templates or fragments (called skeletons in this mode, please inspect `ansys-display-skeleton').
  • Removed "buffer has no process" bug when killing an ansys-mode buffer.
  • Submitting interactively Ansys commands (via mini-buffer query, not only as written in a macro file) to the solver process, ansys-query-ansys-command (C-c C-q).

ansys-mode.el 11.0.1

2009 in comparison to ansys-mod.el,

  • New: Provides Ansys command parameter- and syntax help.
  • New: Offers Ansys process management: Acquiring license server information in a buffer Starting and stopping asynchronously Ansys runs. Sending code lines to running Ansys process (sort of code debugging facility) and getting the output into a buffer.
  • New: Experimental highlighting of user defined variables. Redefinition and clearing of variables is not yet taken into account.
  • New: Emacs customisation facility is available for the new Ansys mode group.
  • New: Emacs outline-minor-mode is readily available in conjunction with this mode.
  • Completions of Ansys commands are now case-sensitive, with additional completion of function and element names.
  • Previously defined skeletons are fully functional now, new ones are added and enabled with the abbreviation and auto-load facilities of Emacs 22.
  • Ansys' interpreter's disregard of any capitalisation is now fully taken into account in the highlighting.
  • The apostrophe "'" is now assigned as the Ansys string and the value of character parameters delimiter and not wrongly """; the strings are highlighted accordingly.
  • The dollar sign "$" is now emphasised as the Ansys condensed input character (multiple Ansys commands in one line).
  • The colon ":" is now emphasised as the Ansys colon do loop character ("(x:y:z)" means from x to y, in z steps, z is equal to one as default). For example: "n,(1:6),(2:18:2)" runs 6 loops. Colon loops are working also with real values: k,,(2.5:3:0.1) and with array parameters: k,,A(1:100), but the latter is an undocumented feature. Since ansys 11.0 the colon looping is also working with *GET functions (example: A(1:5)=NX(1:5))). A ":" indicates also a beginning of a label for the *GO and *IF command.
  • "%" is now distinguished as the Ansys parameter substitution and format specifier character.
  • The ampersand "&" is now correctly highlighted as the only available Ansys continuation character applicable to the format commands (*MSG, *MWRITE, *VREAD and *VWRITE) command and the subsequent format strings of the command are highlighted.
  • New: " " ( before `') is indicated as an (Ansys deprecated) comment sign e. g.: %% a = 3 **4 %% results in "a" having the value 3, whereas %% a = 3**4 %% sets "a" to 81!
  • New: A line beginning with a comma is indented to the length of the last non slash or asterisk command as a reminder that the Ansys solver interprets this as a space holder for the last command keyword (the Ansys default command concept).
  • Extended documentation, code cleaning and simplification of commands (e.g. comment handling) with the application of standard Emacs 22 facilities among other things.