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Enter the location of the folder shell that you just created as your Working directory by browsing to it.
Enter shell as your Initial jobname. Click on Run.
Resize windows as shown in this snapshot so that you can read instructions in your browser window and implement them in ANSYS.
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In the Preferences for GUI Filtering dialog box, click on the box next to Structural so that a tick mark appears in the box. From now on, only the menu options valid for structural problems will be made available.
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Define a parameter for the plate length l1 in mm:
L1=750
Click Accept. Similarly, define other parameters corresponding to the dimensions and click Accept after each (parameter names are not case-sensitive). Before you specify a parameter, refer to the geometry specification to remind yourself what dimension that parameter represents.
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We'll use the above parameters when creating the geometry in Step 4. We'll also define some parameters which we'll use in Step 5 to set the mesh size along edges.
NDIV_X=3
NDIV_Y=6
SIZE_Z=5
Close the Scalar Parameters window.
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