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Whenever I teach Ansys SpaceClaim and Ansys Discovery classes, I always describe the differences between Combine tool and Split Body tool. So, I thought I would do that for you today.  Along the way...
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The other day we got a tech support request wanting to know to check the tangency of all the surfaces in a model systematically in Ansys SpaceClaim. You can check surface tangency at an edge using th...
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I thought 10 years would be a good time to update my blog article on about how to check your Ansys Software downloads from the Ansys download site.  That’s less than the Avatar sequel, so I guess ...
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I have always known that the Selection Information window is extremely useful, giving us properties like Surface Area, Edge length, and the distance between two selected nodes. But it will als...
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The things you find out from poking around the Enhancement Request list… Did you know that you can get ANSYS Mechanical to report the amount of time that the meshing takes? I didn’t until I st...
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So you have results for a job that took several hours to run, or several days, and now you realize that you need to use a post-processing command snippet. In the past, prior to version 14.5, this wou...
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As often happens, I learned something new from one of my latest tech support cases. I’ll start with the basics and then get to what I learned. The question in this case was, “Can I use the mode sh...
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Last week I had the distinct privilege to head down to the University of Arizona and help judge projects for the 2018 Engineering Design Day.  It is always fun to see all the different, multidiscipli...
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As it so often does, another blog article idea came from a tech support question that I received the other day. “How do you view edge directions in ANSYS SpaceClaim?” You can do it in Mechanical,...
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Is this the reaction you have when you come in on Monday morning, and realize that another Windows update has, once again, rebooted your PC before you had a chance...

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