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For Crashes on Windows and Linux/Ubuntu + Bonus Info We have all been there: Ansys Mechanical has been solving a complex model for days, only to unexpectedly crash or fail with an error message. U...

Are you an avid Zemax user who recently updated to 2026R1 and noticed this new tool “Granta Material Picker” in the Libraries tab? If so, then today is your lucky day! I will be reviewing how ...

June 15th, 2026 marks the start of my 40th year as a user of Ansys. I don't remember a lot from that long ago, but the months before that day, and a few weeks after, are still accessible because they...

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....

If you have a model you’ve created in Ansys Mechanical, you can export the mesh and import it in Thermal Desktop. For this example, I’m working with a very basic block as shown below, but you wou...

If you’ve embarked on your fair share of CFD like I have, you know how critical it can be to set up auto-save for long-running CFD jobs. Learning that you lost four days of runtime because of a pow...

Ansys Mechanical has been continually improving its large-deflection, plasticity, and contact capabilities. One way that this shows up is in a post-buckling simulation of a thin-walled cylinder. It's...

The 2026 R1 release of Ansys Zemax OpticStudio brings one of the most impactful sets of improvements in recent years—especially for teams designing compact cameras, complex imaging systems, and cro...