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

• 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

 Coming soon