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Problem Specification
1. Pre-Analysis & Start-Up
2. Geometry
3. Mesh
4. Setup (Physics)
5. Solution
6. Results
7. Verification and Validation
Exercises
2. Geometry
Modal (ANSYS) Project Selection
Left, click on Modal ANSYS, 
, and drag it to the right of the "Cantilever" project. You should then see a red box to the right of the "Cantilever" project that says "Create standalone system" as shown below.
Now, release the left mouse button. Your Project Schematic window should now look comparable to the image below.
Rename Modal (ANSYS)
Double click on Modal (ANSYS) and rename it to "Cantilever Modal".
Attach Geometry from Cantilever to Cantilever Modal
The geometry for the "Cantilever Beam Modal Analysis" tutorial is the same as the geometry for the "Cantilever Beam" tutorial. Instead of recreating the geometry, we will simple attach the geometry from the Static Structural Analysis System (Cantilever) to the Modal Analysis System (Cantilever Modal). In order to attach the geometry, left click geometry in Cantilever and drag it to geometry in Cantilever Modal, as shown below.
Then release the left mouse button. You should now see that the geometries are shared as shown in the following image.
Go to Step 3: Mesh
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