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Now that the geometry has been imported, let's open the file and make sure everything is in order! Double click 
. This will open the design modeler. When you are prompted, select Meter as your standard unit of measurement. The first thing you should notice is that the geometry is not there, so click 
to generate the geometry. When the geometry finally generates, you should see the screen below.
Once we are satisfied with our geometry, we can close the design modeler.
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Look at the Outline window in the design modeler. It should look like this:
Specifically, there should be a 1 Part, 1 Body expandable tab. Expand the tab and the only contents should be Surface Body. In certain versions of ANSYS, it has been reported that superfluous line bodies are being imported as well. If you see the line bodies in this window, right click each of the and select Supress. The line bodies will cause errors when we are meshing the body. Stuffs |
To connect the geometry to the project, click and drag . As soon as you drag the box, ANSYS will highlight the geometry and model boxes in the main project.
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