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Geometry

Draw the Geometry

First, right click on "Geometry" (once) Geometry and click Properties to bring up the geometry properties menu. The default analysis type of ANSYS is 3D, but we are doing a 2 dimensional problem. Change the Analysis Types from 3D to 2D. Now, right click on Geometry on the project outline and click . This will bring up the Design Modeler. It will prompt you to pick the standard units. From the Problem Specification, we want to choose inch

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