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Ansys Licensing: Lmutil and Releasing Stuck Licenses

Anecdotally, problems with stuck licenses do not seem to have been as common over the past couple of years as it was prior to that, so most users have not needed to use the Lmutil tool to fix things....

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Ansys Icepak: Plotting Surface Normals and Interpreting Flux Calculations in Ansys Electronic Desktop

One of the things that occasionally trips me up when using Ansys Icepak is verifying the net direction of heat, mass, or volumetric flow across specific surfaces in my system. When we deal with just ...

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RBF Morph – A Journey of Morphing an Existing Ansys Mechanical Mesh Into a Target Geometry

RBF Morph is a technology that has been around for more than a decade now, and it remains a fairly niche but powerful tool in supplementing general CAE workflows. It is written and supported by A...

Taking Full Advantage of the Ansys Product Portfolio: 4-Way Multiphysics with Thermal Deformation Mapping to Ansys HFSS

The multiphysics workflows I typically deal with are thermal-electric in nature – after all, a big part of the value proposition for the Ansys EM Suite is that it includes and plays nicely with Ans...

Mastering Ansys optiSLang: 5 Useful Methods for Reusing Existing Results

One of the more popular questions I get for Ansys optiSlang is along the lines of: “I finished setting up my sensitivity/optimization workflow and then let it run for xx-xx days, but I realized tha...

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Ansys Pro – Premium – Enterprise Electronics Licensing Adjustments

One of our most common Ansys technical support questions revolves around a (relatively) recent change made to Ansys licensing for the electronics family of tools. Prior to ~2019, each tool had its ow...

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Thermal Results Visualization – Ansys SIWave Icepak and Ansys Electronics Desktop Icepak

As a typically mechanical / systems engineer, I am not exactly qualified to go through and list exactly what SIWave does and why you need it for any given situation (shoutout to Aleksandr, our actual...

An Ansys Licensing Tip – ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE

Most Ansys users make use of floating licensing setups, and I would say the majority of those actually make use of licenses that are hosted nonlocally but on their network. Within this licensing sche...

Welcome to a New Era in Electronics Reliability Simulation

Simulation itself is no longer a new concept in engineering, but individual fields, applications, and physics are continually improved upon and integrated into the toolbox that is an engineer’s ars...

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Setting up and Solving a PCB and Enclosure for Thermal Simulation in Ansys Icepak Electronic Desktop

The thought of setting up and running a complex PCB and Enclosure thermal model was something that used to strike fear in the heart of engineers. That is no longer true. In this video, we step throug...