ANSYS - Tips and Tricks

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.

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

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