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Close the Design Modeler if you haven't already, and open ANSYS Mechanical by double clicking When ANSYS Mechanical opens, notice that there is a question mark next to Geometry in the Project Outline - this means that there is something amiss in this section. Expand Geometry, expand Part and select the first surface body Surface Body.

Also notice that Thickness is highlighted as it does not have a value specified. Although we will ultimately specify a varying thickness for the the wind turbine blade, for now we will specify a unit thickness. We need to do this or ANSYS will fail when it tries to solve. For each surface body, enter 1 next to Thickness.

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