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Hold My Beer 2: Create an Awesome Identical Mesh on a Half-Symmetry Part in Ansys Mechanical

Whoops. Forgot this was supposed to be a recurring blog post. I was having one of those weeks where nothing quite worked out right when a colleague sent me a question he had just been ask...

Hold my Beer: Spatially Varying Materials in Ansys Mechanical Made Easy

Do you hear that sound? It’s the celebration of all my adoring fans celebrating a long-awaited blog post! I figured having “create new blog content” on my quarterly review for the past 32 quart...

Dealing with open contact pairs

The standard progression of analyst 'comfort' in any FEA is to start with simple/single components, add one or more parts and use bonded contact to transfer load, and finally look at parts that move/s...

Assembly Modeling with ANSYS

In my previous article, I wrote about how you get what you pay for with your analysis package. Well, buckle up for some more…but this time we’ll just focus on handling assemblies in your structu...

Advanced ANSYS Functionality

Just like any other marketplace, there are a lot of options in simulation software. There are custom niche-codes for casting simulations to completely general purpose linear algebra solvers that all...

Connection Groups and Your Sanity in ANSYS Mechanical

You kids don’t know how good you have it with automatic contact creation in Mechanical. Back in my day, I’d have to use the contact wizard in MAPDL or show off my mastery of the ESURF command to...

Donny Don’t – Thin Sweep Meshing

It’s not a series of articles until there’s at least 3, so here’s the second article in my series of ‘what not to do’ in ANSYS… Just in case you’re not familiar with thin sweep meshin...

Donny Don’t – Remote Objects

Nothing like a good ‘ol fashion Simpson’s reference. I’m trying to start a new series of articles that address common mistakes and things to avoid, and what better reference ...

Named Selections + Object Generator = Awesome

Guess who’s back…back again. Yes, just like Slim Shady, I’m back (returned to PADT and writing Focus blogs).So run and go tell your friends that horrible pop cultural references have returned ...

Sifting through the wreckage: Element Birth and Death in Workbench

So the WebEx that expanded upon my article about load vs. sub-step in Workbench ended with me getting booted from the teleconference and unable to rejoin. I handled as many questions as possible...

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