This post is the third of six and it is an update on making videos of results animations with Ansys Mechanical. A lot of improvements have been made in recent releases and you can get good quality videos that are very useful for sharing results with others. Getting a video of what you see on […]
This post is the second of six on what I’ve learned after fiddling around for a while. It is looking at a post-processing tool that Ansys acquired a few years back called Ansys EnSight. It takes making output to the next level in functionality and quality. More options and ray tracing with Ansys EnSight Back […]
This post is the first of six on what I’ve learned after fiddling around for a while. It is an update to an article I did back in 2009 on the same topic, as well as plotting well in Mechanical APDL Getting high-quality Pixels in Ansys Mechanical To get started, let’s meet our sample model, […]
Additive Manufacturing has profoundly impacted all aspects of manufacturing. With the ability to increase speed-to-market, lower production costs, and customize specialty parts, it continues to fuel innovation. Manufacturing jigs, fixtures, and other tooling accounts for more than 20% of all end-use parts produced with 3D printing today. Yet, without tools that make the design of […]
With Icepak now falling under the umbrella of Electronics products in the Ansys Pro Premium Enterprise licensing scheme, it is easier than ever to obtain conjugate heat transfer simulation results without a dedicated Fluids license. Because of this, we have received multiple requests regarding methods to transfer Icepak’s results to a workbench environment for more […]
This is an unusual HOW-TO post for our blog. Most of the time, we post useful technical content about Ansys, Flownex, 3D Printing, Scanning, and product development. But I’ve been on a no-code kick using Microsoft Power Automate and the flows you can create there. But as I’ve learned the tool, I’ve found a lack […]
I am so lucky in a zillion ways to be able to work from home while functioning in my position as a 3D Printing Application Engineer for PADT Inc., a Stratasys 3D printer reseller and engineering consulting/manufacturing company in Tempe Arizona. Three things are making this possible: 1 – Awesome management and co-workers 2 – […]
Published on: December 14th, 2020 With: Eric Miller & Josh Stout Description: In this episode your host and Co-Founder of PADT, Eric Miller is joined by PADT’s Systems Support & Application Engineer Josh Stout for a discussion on how OptiSLang helps to increase the robustness and reliability of simulation, as well as a […]
Here we are, the second week of December in the year 2020. This is the time of year when we usually look back on the year and see what went right and what didn’t. In a normal year, it’s a fun exercise. You can conduct the review two ways, something like a global pandemic that […]
Simulation is becoming an integral part of our customers’ product development processes, and new horizons await. By combining different physics into a multidisciplinary approach, phenomena can be investigated more holistically and optimized to a greater degree. Additionally, simulation processes can be standardized and shared across teams, allowing simulation novices to gain more direct access to […]
For our Christmas parties at PADT, we generally have over 50 employees so a traditional secret Santa gift exchange takes too long. At some point, we downloaded a right-left gift exchange story from the internet and it was a big hit. When we ran out of stories on the internet, we started writing our own, […]
Change is an important part of growth. Our mission within the Engineering Services team at PADT is: Delivering Premier Engineering Services to Enable World-Changing Product Development. To do that, we need a world class leader. And when our long-time Director of Engineering decided to move to something different, we searched high and low for a […]
For our Christmas parties at PADT, we generally have over 50 employees so a traditional secret Santa gift exchange takes too long. At some point, we downloaded a right-left gift exchange story from the internet and it was a big hit. When we ran out of stories on the internet, we started writing our own, […]
Published on: November 30th, 2020 With: Eric Miller & Jim Peters Description: In this episode your host and Co-Founder of PADT, Eric Miller is joined by PADT’s Senior Staff Technologist Jim Peters for a discussion on the new capabilities available within Ansys Motion 2020 R2. With an integration into Mechanical, users can take […]
Ansys Motion, now in the Mechanical interface, is a third generation engineering solution based on an advanced multibody dynamics solver that enables fast and accurate analysis of rigid and flexible bodies and gives an accurate evaluation of physical events through the analysis of the mechanical system as a whole. Ansys Motion uses four tightly integrated […]