Importing ANSYS model files

ANSYS model files have the extension *.ans. This help topic lists the entity and element types that are supported.

Supported entities

The supported entities are:

Entity Type	Description
NBLOCK	block formatted nodes
EBLOCK	block formatted elements
EN,R5.0	element card
EN,R5.1	element card
EN,R5.5	element card
EN,4.4	element card
E,	element card
EN,	element card
R,R5	real constant tables
R,	real constant table

The supported element types are:

• 2 noded beam.
• 3 node triangle.
• 4 node tetra.
• 4 node quads converted to two 3 node triangles.