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Using the Usermat UPF to Define Custom ANSYS Mechanical Materials on Windows

A longstanding capability in Ansys Mechanical is the ability to add your own user-defined material with the Usermat function. The Usermat.f routine is one of many user-programmable features (UPFs) in...

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Using AI LLMs For Ansys APDL Scripts is Not There Yet

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) revolution is in full swing, impacting almost every aspect of the business world and many parts of our personal lives. I still cling to my ...

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PyAnsys Scripting: Importing Geometry and Mapping Model Load Data from Rhino to Ansys

PADT's Alex Grishin is back with another useful article on how he is using the Ansys scripting python API, PyAnsys to do cool things in Ansys Mechanical. This presentation is actually something he di...

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Using Ansys Scripting with pyMAPDL, pyDPF-Post, and More – Part 3: Creating Your Own Finite Element Solutions With Python

Verifying A Stiffness Matrix from Ansys Mechanical in Ansys Scripting with python The most popular posts in 2022 were Part 1 and Part 2 of Alex's Grishin's "Using Ansys Scripting with pyMAPDL, py...

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Using Ansys Scripting with pyMAPDL, pyDPF-Post, and More – PART 2: Solving and post-processing ANSYS models in Python

A few months ago, PADT's Alex Grishin posted an article about using the ever-improving Ansys scripting capabilities for Ansys Mechanical with Python using a tutorial to solve in Ansys MAPDL and then ...

Using Ansys Scripting with pyMAPDL, pyDPF-Post, and More - PART 1: Running and Post-Processing an Ansys Model Outside Ansys

Using Ansys Scripting with pyMAPDL, pyDPF-Post, and More – PART 1: Running and Post-Processing an Ansys Model Outside Ansys

Using the Ansys Scripting API to Execute an Ansys MAPDL Solve and Post Process the Results in Python PADT's Alex Grishin has been busy doing some cool Multiphysics optimization work. As part ...

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Mechanical Updates in Ansys 2021 R2: Post processing/graphics & MAPDL Updates – Webinar

Ansys Mechanical delivers features to enable faster simulations, easier workflows, journaling, scripting and product integrations that offer more solver capabilities. The Ansys finite element solvers...

Four Different Ways to Add Customization to ANSYS Mechanical

ANSYS Mechanical is a very powerful tool right out of the box. Long gone are the days when an FEA tool was just a solver, and users had to write code to create input files and interpret the res...

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Can ANSYS Mechanical Handle My Required Modeling Precision?

Sometimes you need to use ANSYS Mechanical to model a big part as a way to determine a very small deflection. The most common situation where this happens is optics. A lens that is around a met...

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Secant or Instantaneous CTE? Understanding Thermal Expansion Modeling ANSYS Mechanical

One of the more common questions we get on thermal expansion simulations in tech support for ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Mechanical APDL revolve around how the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion, or CTE....

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