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• Accessing ANSYS: This tip shows students the three main ways of accessing ANSYS
• Navigating ANSYS Mechanical 2019 R2 Interface: This tip shows some of the changes in the new interface and tips on how to not be confused by the changes.

• Time Dependent Boundary Condition :

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• This tip shows how to specify a time-dependent temperature boundary condition by reading in values from Excel.

Time Dependent Boundary Condition

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• Activate Academic Research License: This tip shows how to switch from a teaching license to a research license if you have purchased both licenses. The teaching license has a limitation on the maximum number of nodes in your model whereas the research license doesn't put a limit on the maximum number of nodes.

• Set Number of Cores: To set the number of cores in ANSYS Mechanical, go to Tools > Solve Process Settings > Advanced and change Max number of utilized processors. You will need a valid HPC license to use more than 4 cores. To maximize the amount of memory available for a solve, close memory hogs and start-up programs before hitting Solve.

• Fatigue Analysis : This tip shows how to perform fatigue analysis in ANSYS Mechanical.

• Hydrostatic Pressure : This tip demonstrates how to use the Hydrostatic Pressure load to determine the water level.
   
• Auto Constraints : This tip demonstrates how to turn on Auto Constraints in DesignModeler, which is not turned on by default in ANSYS 15.0.

• Moving or translating a geometry in DesignModeler (ANSYS' Old Geometry Engine)

• ANSYS Installation Guide for Mac OS X

• ANSYS Installation for Windows

• Running FLUENT on a Remote Server
  
  
• How to Compile UDFs
  
  
• How to interpret principal stresses for 2d plane stress cases in ANSYS Mechanical?  Why is one principal stress not zero everywhere? 
  
  
• How to Vary Material Properties along an Object
  
  
• Specifying spatially varying loads in ANSYS Mechanical: See this blog post from another site
  
  
• Introduction to Command Object Post-processing
  
  
• Importing Surfaces from Solidworks into ANSYS: this tip will show you how to import just a surface into DesignModeler using Solidworks
  
  
• Using Force Reaction Probes on Contact Surfaces
  
  
• Accessing Selection Information window in ANSYS
  
  
• Creating a Surface in DesignModeler from Imported Geometry and Combining Edges
  
  
• Connecting to Swanson Lab using Remote Desktop in Windows

• Material Property Specification Fix

  the nodes allowed in the simulation. The work stations in the Swanson simulation lab have the academic research license that allows users to create unlimited nodes for more advanced simulation.Activate Academic Research License