Every once in a while you need to do something fairly tedious and you know you’ve written a tool to do it, but you can’t find it. That happened to Matt today when he was trying to remember an easy way to locate an important variable that gets stored in one of the common blocks that ANSYS uses. We both kind of had an tickle in the back of our heads that one of us wrote something a while back but we couldn’t find it. “It was in the Focus… search… no luck.
Then I checked www.XANSYS.org and boom, there it was. Once we found the name there, we found the focus article in Issue 58 from 2007. Then I found it on Sheldon’s ANSYS.net
Turns out, it is all over the place… we just couldn’t find it on our own hard drive. Aging sucks, but now we have Google. Anyhow, we figured since we forgot about it, other ANSYS MAPDL customization types may also have want a reminder.
