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Tech Tip: Combine vs Split Body in Ansys SpaceClaim and Ansys Discovery

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...

Checking the Tangency of All Surfaces in Ansys SpaceClaim

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...

How do I Know that my Ansys Software Download was Successful? Part 2

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 ...

Ansys Mechanical Selection Information: Even More Useful Than We Thought

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...

ANSYS Mechanical: Mesh Time Metric Display

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...

Using Command Snippets in Solution (And a cool new ACT Extension to make life easier)

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...

Eigenvalue Buckling and Post-buckling Analysis in ANSYS Mechanical

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...

What defines a prototype? 2018 UofA Engineering Design Day

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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Finding curve directions in ANSYS SpaceClaim

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,...

Save, Save, Save! Setting up a Save after Solution in ANSYS Mechanical

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...