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Animations

Animations are created from saved *.sres files, The Result Saving Frequency option in the Simulation Panel is set to a small value (say 5 or 10) before running the simulation to obtain better animations. The steps to create an animation are shown below:

Dynamic Pressure distribution

1. Select propeller under Boundaries in the Geometric Entities Panel.
2. Select Dynamic Pressure from the User Defined Variable list under Variable drop-down list in the Results Panel.
3. Specify Min as -5000 Pa and Max as 5000 Pa in the Results Panel.

4. Select File > Save Animation, to save animation.

5. Select the result files for animation data in the Select Result Files dialog box, click Open.

6. Under File name, give a suitable name for the .gif animation in the Select GIF File for Movie, PNG File for Frames dialog box, click Save.