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Next, click Solve in the top toolbar. It turns out that ANSYS only needs one iteration to reach the Allowable Change. After one iteration, we see that there is a change of around 0.10% in the maximum von Mises Stress in the plate. From this, we can conclude that our solution is mesh converged.

To see the mesh that ANSYS has created, select any result and then select "Show Elements" as shown in the figure below.

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Next, right click on Convergence in the tree on the left and choose Delete. This is done to speed up the optimization process, which will now move onto.

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