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• Maximizing the ROI on your CAE Investment
• Modeling Cracks with ANSYS – Part 2
• Thin Sweep: Sweeping Away Sweep Mesh Restrictions
• Banishing the Bad Geometry Blues with Design Modeler

• ACP: Realistic Composite Models Without the Sparkly Costume
• Modeling Cracks with ANSYS
• Going “Over the Top” with Joint Simulation in ANSYS Mechanical
• Passing Entity Attributes from NX to ANSYS MAPDL

NOTE: The Zip file for the article on crack modeling can be found here: http://www.padtinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/oldblog/focus%20crack%20article.zip

• Jet Tour Release 12.1
• Exploring the New Immersed Boundary Solver in ANSYS FLUENT
• Modeling Cyclic Symmetry in ANSYS Mechanical R12.1
• The Workbench is Flat: Using the Parametric Manager
• PeDAL: The Editor for ANSYS APDL Users

• What’s New in Workbench Meshing
• Implementing Fluid Pressure Penetration
• Announcing PADT’s First Web Based Class: Workbench Mechanical
• PeDAL: The APDL Editor
• Faster Fourier! Kill! Kill!
• The Top 10 Most Important New Features in Workbench 12.0

• Changing Name with Release 12
• The Top 10 Most Important Features in ANSYS Mechanical APDL R12.0
• Getting to Know R12 Licensing
• Navigating the WB 2.0 Project Schematic

• Face/Off: Finally Having Fun with Slivers
• Shell-Solid: Further Studies
• Shell-Solid: A Further Further Look
• Commerical Software Tools
• Accessing Table Array Indices
• Awesome APDL: Material Property Contour Plots

• Painting “Happy” Thermal Barriers
• Shell To Solid Interfaces: Using Constraint Equations
• Free Tools Every Analyst Should Have

• Fast and Easy 2D Geometry with DesignModeler
• Shell To Solid Interfaces: Using Contact
• ANSYS on the Lake: An Optimization of a Sail Boat Dagger Board using DesignXplorer
• Awesome APDL: Looping Awesome on Numbered Tables

• Shell to Solid Interfaces
• Function Loading – F{X}

• FITEMizing Entities for Fun and Profit
• Faster Solves with VT Accelerator
• HPC Update – New Intel Architecture is Moist, Chewy

• E-Mailing from a Macro
• Real Nerds Love START.ANS
• The AMG Solver
• Awesom APDL: /INQUIRE

• No Separation using MPC’s
• Delving into NUMMRG
• View Orientation and Zombies

• Using CAD within ANSYS
• Using NLDIAG Diagnostics
• Verifying Auto-Contact Detection

• Mass Units in ANSYS: Did you know you were working in Slinches?
• CAD & Workbench: Sorting out the Options
• Efficiency with Instancing
• Finding Close Areas: Using ACON.EXE
• Awesome APDL: Parsing a Text File

• Acoustics in CFX
• Forcing an Incore Solution
• NLHIST: Remembering a Forgotten Friend