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1. i Show Progress Show 12 Messages Results Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 56 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench Solve Initiated From Solve Process Setting Used Workbench My Computer Mechaical My Computer Example 2 Default Update with My Computer Background Set as the Default Solve Process Setting In this case the default Solve Process Setting in the Mechanical application is My Computer Background 10 x Project Update Project Project Q Compact Mode Properties of Schematic 46 Solution General 3 Component ID Solution Directory Name Swa System Information Physics Structural Analysis Static Structural Solver Mechanical APDL Solution Process Update Option Use application default Solve Process Setting My Computer Background Solve Manager localhost Queue Local j Show Progress Show 12 Messages In Workbench the Solution Process property Update Option is set to Use application default which causes Mechanical to use its default Solve Process Setting Results Solve Initiated From Solve Process Setting Used Workbench My Computer Background Mechanical My Computer Background Example 3 RSM Update Using My Computer Background with My Computer Set as the Defa
2. O a a a a a a S pa Clear All Solution ID Setup LastAdaptive Frequency GHz ja 9999999999999995e 001 y Accept amp Reset J Cancel Help Click Accept to close the panel In Icepak click Start solution to solve the project During solving HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor will be launched in the background and the volumetric losses calculated and mapped onto the selected Icepak solid objects This loss mapping from HFSS to Icepak is conservative This is especially important for accurate temperature calculation Note To calculate surface heat losses select the Surface heat losses option and enter inputs as described above ANSYS Icepak Workbench Integration Tutorial This tutorial demonstrates how to create and solve an Icepak analysis in ANSYS Workbench You will model a geometry using the direct CAD modeling feature in Icepak and create a non conformal mesh Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 212 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems for the complex shapes The project will also include postprocessing the results in CFD Post and per forming a static structural analysis In this tutorial you will learn how to Create an Icepak Analysis in ANSYS Workbench Solve a project and transfer to Mechanical for further analysis e Postprocess results in CFD Post Prerequisites
3. a Project a Reconnect Clear All Generated Data Properties Add to Custom New Analysis Systems gt To add a new system with a link to an existing system right click on the appropriate cell of the existing system Select Transfer Data From New to create a new system upstream of the selected cell Select Transfer Data To New to create a system downstream from the selected cell The following animation New Component Systems gt S Hydrodynamic Time Response A New Custom Systems gt z IC Engine Linear Buckling New Design Exploration b Magnetostatic New External Connection Systems gt E ocal Show Connections Bundled m Random Vibration spl td ahaa D Response Spectrum Show System Coordinates EA Rigid Dynamics Fit z Static Structural Thermal Electric Add Note Component Systems Custom Systems Design Exploration External Connection Systems Y View All Customize Ready SKEPBOGHH k Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow Fluid Flow CFx Fluid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow PolyFlow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffraction Hydrodynamic Time Response IC Engine Linear Buckling Magnetostatic Modal Random Vibration Response Spectrum i FH Rigid Dynamics Static Structural Thermal Electric i amp demonstrates adding a system using the Transfer Data context
4. SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Description You can select only one file to be the master file If you multi select a master file and non master files the Dimension Length Unit and Trans formation properties in the Properties gt Definition view will be hidden If you duplicate the master file only one instance will be designated as the master file Text that describes the file to you and to other users Optionally you can right click a file or files in the Outline view and use the context menu to du plicate them All files whether imported or duplicated can be sorted or filtered Once the files have been added use the Properties view to input the information required to process the file and apply the data in the Mechanical application If you select multiple files in the Data Source column the Properties view displays A value when that value is the same for all selected files A blank field when values differ between selected files A yellow field when a value is required but not currently specified for at least one of the files If you edit any field in the Properties view when multiple files are selected your change is applied to all files Note Although you can multi select files in the Data Source view when you click away from that view the highlighting applie
5. This tutorial assumes that you have little experience with ANSYS Workbench and so each step will be explicitly described Problem Description The graphics board contains a heat sink with extruded fins having aerofoil cross section a PCB capacitors memory cards and ports These objects are placed in a setup as shown in the figure below Figure 7 Problem Schematic Step 1 Create a New Project Start ANSYS Workbench Note When ANSYS Workbench starts the Toolbox and Project Schematic are displayed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 213 ANSYS Workbench Systems Fle View Tools Units Extensions Help Trew Gh Open izi Save Wd Save As sii Import SeRecommect i Refresh Project ipdate Project gt Project Compact Mode E Analysis Systeme Design Assessment Aectric amp Explicit Dynamics Fiuid Flow crx E Fluid Flow Fluent s Harmonic Response Getting Tisai IC Engine E Linear Buckling Mognetostate Welcome to ANSYS Workbench E Modal E Modal Semcef If you re new to ANSYS Workbench we strongly encourage E Random vibration you to take just a few minutes to view some tutorials E Response Spectnm E Rigid Dynamics If you prefer to get started immediately E Katic Structural E Static Structural Samcef 1 Select your desired analysis system from the Toolbox at E Steady state
6. If you change a parameter in an exported design point and then run an update the existing exported project files will be overwritten However if you first deselect the Exported check box then change the design point and then run an update the exported project will not be overwritten but will no longer be consistent with the data in the Parameter table Note Be aware that Design Exploration data is not a part of design points and therefore is not exported Design Exploration is a consumer of design points but does not define design points and is not involved when a design point is updated or by extension exported Exporting Design Point Values to an ASCII File You can export the design point values in the Table of Design Points to an ASCII file which can then be used by other programs for further processing This file is formatted according to DesignXplorer s Extended CSV File Format which is primarily the Comma Separated Values standard format file ex tension CSV with the addition of several nonstandard formatting conventions To export design point values to an ASCII file right click on a cell in the Table of Design Points and select the Export Data menu option The parameter values for each design point in the table will be exported to a CSV file The values are always exported in units as defined in Workbench i e as when the Display Values as Defined option is selected under the Units menu If you export design
7. Opening a file from a previous release can result in an unlinked parameter i e a parameter associated with a property that existed in the previous release but does not exist in the current one Unlinked parameters will be labeled as such in the Outline view Value column To delete an unlinked parameter right click and select Delete Selected Unlinked Parameters Properties View The Properties view displays information for the object either a parameter or a chart selected in the Outline view From this view you can perform the following operations enter or change the value of input parameters specify details for a parameters created in the Outline view e delete existing user defined parameters change parameter names edit parameter descriptions enter or edit parameter expressions link an input parameter to an output parameter by editing its expression When working with expressions once the value quantity name e g Area is determined from the unit of the value you can only modify it by changing the parameter s Quantity Name setting You cannot change the expression e g from Area to Volume without first changing the quantity name value After making any changes to parameter definitions perform an Update operation to run the needed updates and return the values of the output parameters Note that an Update operation can be lengthy depending on the analysis details For more information on working with param
8. Project files Access control Alert on IM Include Results Use Default Permission ms T Modified T checked In Checked Out IY Include External Files T Downloaded Lifecycle State Changed The current project will be archived and uploaded to the EKM repository Once the upload portion of the operation has started you can continue with further analysis tasks or work with other projects You will not be allowed to exit ANSYS Workbench until the upload has completed When you upload a file to the EKM repository you will regain control of the ANSYS Workbench interface as soon as the upload completes EKM will extract the metadata asynchronously If the metadata extrac tion fails you will not see any indication in ANSYS Workbench However the project object in EKM viewed via the EKM Web Client will indicate that metadata is missing Opening a Project from an EKM Repository You can open a project from an EKM repository to load an archived project from an individual repository or access a project that has been placed previously on a shared repository To open a project from an EKM repository 1 From ANSYS Workbench select File gt Open from Repository 2 Browse to the repository location that contains the project and select it 3 Change the location to which the local copy of the project is to be placed if necessary Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential informa
9. SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 46 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Duplicating Systems AR We82e spring Workbench E Analysis System DesignAssessmet Hectic Explicit Dynamics GB Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyfiow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow E Fud Flow crX E FutdFlow Fuen Fluid Flow Potyflow GB HarmonicResporse Hydrodynamic Diffraction E Hydrodynamic Time Response Ic Engine Linear suckling Linear Suckling Samcef Gi Magnetostac G Model Modal Samcef i Random Vibration E a Response Spectam G Bold Dynamics Gq Static sructural Static Structural Samcef E Steady State Thermal QB Steety Sste Thermal Semcef fA Thermat Electric Y view AL j Customize QISNESESTSTS ee ewe Ready l l sham Progress 2 show oMessages If the Duplicate operation is initiated from one of the cells in the system all cells above the one selected for duplication will be shared The cell selected for duplication can be edited independently For example If you select Duplicate from the Geometry cell the Engineering Data cell is shared allowing you to edit the Geometry cell in the duplicate system to investigate a geometric alternative Data from the Model cell and below is copied from the original system and can be modified independently AV WS2z spring Workb
10. Add Input File Displays a Browse dialog box to add an input file When you add an input file the file is immediately copied into the project directory To make changes to this file change the file in the project directory not the original file If you have a large input file and have disk space concerns keep the file in the dir ectory of your choice and use a separate input file to reference it via the INPUT command Add Referenced File Displays a Browse dialog box to add a referenced file When you add a referenced file the file is im mediately copied into the project directory To make changes to this file change the file in the project directory not the original file If you have a large reference file and have disk space concerns keep the file in the directory of your choice and reference it manually Track Solution During an Update this option launches the Results Tracking tool allowing you to monitor diagnostics results of interest in real time during the solution For more information see the NLHIST command Update Update runs the Mechanical APDL application in batch mode processing all input files in the order listed If you make changes in the Mechanical APDL application be sure that the changes are reflected appro priately in the input files before running an Update Otherwise an Update could potentially overwrite the work you ve done in the Mechanical APDL application Note An Update will launch the Mechan
11. After you drag an External Connection cell into the Workbench Project Schematic window the External Connection component appears in an Edit Required state indicated by a question mark until you update it with a Configuration file v 1 7 External Connection ji 2 External Connection Red aiara gt External Connection Duplicate F Update Reset Rename Properties Quick Help Add Note The figure below shows a Mesh Transfer system that consumes an upstream mesh and passes it to a downstream Fluent system External Connection is used to create the Generic Mesh system Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 243 ANSYS Workbench Systems pi Design Berlei d B Dterrai Connector Synterns GF Starve Connectas E A Masih Meshing ANSYS CFO E Cren vent OCANIWIECEBUTOR win ansys com 34 tesa O E Fie Edit View Units Tools Help Fle Mesh Define Soe Adept Surface Dtiplay Report Peete View mi GmenteMah fat D ae Go iy TM tM S STAR ANAS FY Show Vertices 2Wireframe Of Show Mesh Mi Rarer Colors D Annstal W Edge Cokbring gt Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar A W Hi Thicker Acnotation Model Virtual Topology Symmetry Connections Gpfracture Mp Me ANSYS Fluart 15 0 4 pores larr Checking case topology This case has no inlets amp no outlets Case will be initialized with c
12. All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 67 Working in ANSYS Workbench 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired PBS automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring PBS clusters see Appendix C in the Remote Solve Manager documentation Note PBS clusters on Windows are not supported Submitting Fluent Jobs to LSF via RSM If you have an LSF queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option on Linux In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the LSF cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired The LSF cluster automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring LSF clusters see Appendix C or Appendix Din the Remote Solve Manager documentation Exiting a Project during an RSM Solution Cell Update You can exit a project while a Solution cell update via RSM is in progress i e one or more RSM jobs are running in the background and the Progress view displays a project Status of Waiting for back ground task In order for RSM jobs to continue to run after you exit the project the project must be saved at least once after the Solution cell update job was initiated If you attempt to exit
13. Background Color sets the color of the legend background The legend will default to no background color or foreground color border When you hover the cursor over the legend you should see its borders You set the background and foreground colors using a color wheel You can select a new color and apply it and you can also click More gt gt and change the Alpha channel to 0 for transparent or 255 for opaque Note If there are too many entries in the legend the legend will not display even if Visible is checked Variable Properties Variable display properties can be set by either right clicking on the variable plot on the chart and se lecting Edit Properties or by right clicking on the variable name in the legend and selecting Edit Properties The Properties view will show the display properties available for that variable The properties when available may include the following fields e Label name for that variable plot Display As selects the type of plot used for the variable e Automatic Range set automatic determination of variable range on or off e Range Minimum set minimum range of variable values displayed e Range Maximum set maximum range of variable values displayed Allow Filtering allow filtering on parallel coordinate plot Style Display Properties When plot rendering is controlled per variable the Style display properties will appear when you edit the variable properties When plot line rendering
14. Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Case File Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX System It is also possible to bypass both the Geometry cell and the Mesh cell and begin the simulation process by importing a case file Here the process differs slightly for CFX and Fluent based systems each is de scribed below 1 Right click on the Setup cell and select Import Case gt Browse In the Open dialog browse to find your desired case file and select Open 2 If the Geometry and Mesh cells are unused empty then the unused cells are automatically deleted Note that if either cell has an incoming or outgoing connection then it is considered used and will not be deleted 3 Since CFX supports multiple meshes imported into a single setup cell if either of the Geometry or Mesh cells contains data both cells will not be deleted As a result both the Mesh generated in the Mesh cell and the mesh imported from the case file will be combined in CFX Pre 4 Once the import is complete you can double click Setup cell or right click and select Edit to start CFX Pre From this point follow the procedure described in Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from Geo metry p 41 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Case File Fluid Flow Polyflow System 1 Right click on the Setup cell and select Import Polyflow Case Choose either from the list of recently used case files or choose Browse 2 A warning dialog informs you
15. F Always update V Ignore errors Done 6 Now you can change the Input parameter through Workbench a In the Workbench Project Schematic window double click on the Parameters cell of the ICEM CFD component b Change the value of ZSIZE to 5 and return to the Project tab c Right click on the Model cell and choose Update You can watch the Replay script run using the new parameter in the ICEM CFD interface Each time you change the ZSIZE parameter in Workbench will be generated and meshed with the new ZSIZE parameter value Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 196 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Icepak The Icepak application allows engineers to model electronic designs and perform heat transfer and fluid flow simulations You can construct your model geometry or import model data from other CAD and CAE packages Icepak then creates a mesh for your model geometry and passes the mesh and model definition to the solver for computational fluid dynamics simulation The resulting data can then be postprocessed using Icepak and or CFD Post There are two ways to create a project in Icepak In both cases you will first need to add an Icepak template to the project schematic You can accomplish this by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or double click the template in the Toolbox You will see the
16. Faces block label The Faces block contains definitions for topologically two dimensional faces small surfaces each by 3 triangle or 4 quadrilateral points The points must be ordered to trace a path going around the face For proper rendering the faces should have consistent point ordering either clockwise or coun terclockwise Each face is automatically closed by connecting the last point to the first point Face connectivity data is listed in the Faces block and references the points in the Data block where the latter are implicitly numbered starting with 0 Importing Multiple Data Sets External Data can be configured to efficiently import multiple data sets for example from a transient analysis It can handle multiple sets through a single file or via multiple files This section will guide you through the steps to set up such an analysis 1 Create the External Data system by double clicking External Data in the Component Systems toolbox An External Data system appears in the Project Schematic 2 Double click the External Data system s Setup cell to edit it The Outline view Properties view and Table view appear 3 Using the Outline view choose the data files You can Perform multiple file add operations in the Outline view In the Location column click the browse icon circled in the figure that follows multi select files in the Open File s dialog box that appears and click Open Release 15
17. Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 234 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Support of Units Units are handled by the Excel system A valid Workbench unit string must be used and included in the named range For instance if an input parameter is a length in millimeters you can name WB_Length the range A1 B1 where the cell A1 contains the length value i e 120 5 and the cell B1 contains the unit string i e mm When selecting the WB_Length range in the Outline view the Properties view looks like below In this case the Quantity Name is automatically identified as a Length If there are several possible Quantity Names for the same unit string the user has to select the Quantity Name in the properties of the range for the unit conversion to be performed as expected For instance if A1 B1 was actually a temperature in degree Celsius the Quantity Name could be a Temperature or a Temperature Difference Proper tes of Outline A10 WB_Temperature Quantity Name K H Temperature Ls Temperature Difference For detailed information on working with units in ANSYS Workbench see Unit Systems in the Working with Units section of the ANSYS Workbench help File management and modification of the worksheet When the Excel file is added to the Analysis component it is copied inside the Workbench project files So any modification made to
18. Machine Specification Default file containing the machine list Applicable to RSM No Machine Filename Default none Applicable to RSM No The Solution cell s Solution Process setting is always displayed when Use Setup Launcher Settings is checked the option is read only Solution Process Update Option You can choose to Run in Foreground Run in Background or Submit to Remote Solve Manager When Submit to Remote Solve Manager is chosen options that are not applicable to RSM are hidden Also fluentlauncher txt will not contain options that conflict with RSM Submitting Fluent Jobs to HPC via RSM If you have a Microsoft HPC cluster queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the HPC cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired The HPC cluster automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring HPC clusters see Appendix Ein the Remote Solve Manager documentation Submitting Fluent Jobs to PBS via RSM If you have a PBS queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the PBS cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc
19. Polyflow allows for the analysis of fluid flows with free surfaces complex rheology including non Newtonian behavior with viscoelasticity heat transfer and chemical reactions The usage of Polyflow involves specifying the computation models inside Polydata which is the module for problem setup and running the calculations using the Polyflow solver Polyflow also comes with several useful utilities which can be accessed via the right click menu on the Setup and Solution cells For example Polymat can be used to calculate material properties including viscoelastic parameters based on experimental data For more details please see the product documentation There are three Polyflow fluid flow analysis systems available in Workbench The Fluid Flow Polyflow system provides the full simulation capabilities of Polyflow The Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow system provides only the application specific capabilities of Polyflow that are suited to blow molding simulations The Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow system provides only the application specific capabilities of Polyflow that are suited to extrusion simulations Use a Polyflow Blow Molding Polyflow or Extrusion Polyflow fluid flow analysis system to apply a computational mesh to a geometry within Workbench then use Polydata to define pertinent mathem Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 140 of ANSYS
20. Similarly check the boxes for Output Pre Mesh Quality and Output Number of Blocks to set the Blocking Output Parameters For more information about pre mesh quality see Pre Mesh Quality in the ICEM CFD User s Guide For more information about Hexa Block types see Hexa Block Types in the CEM CFD User s Guide Deleting Output Parameters Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 193 ANSYS Workbench Systems 3 Within ICEM CFD choose Settings gt Workbench Parameters gt Workbench Output Parameters In the Workbench Output Parameters window check the Delete all quality metrics output parameters check box and or the Delete all number of elements output parameters check box Click Apply or OK User Defined Parameters Example This example illustrates how you can use user defined parameters to test different meshing scenarios for 1 a simple box In the Workbench Toolbox double click the ICEM CFD component to start the data integrated ICEM CFD component system Double click the Model cell to open ICEM CFD First create an Input parameter ZSIZE that you can manipulate from Workbench a Choose Settings gt Workbench Parameters gt Workbench Input Parameters User Defined b Click Create User Defined Input Parameter c Name the Parameter ZSIZE and set the Parameter Value as 2 d C
21. To view cell properties right click on the cell and select Properties from the context menu The Prop erties view will open showing all properties applicable to that cell in its current state Both the property name and its current value are shown Some properties are editable while others cannot be edited because of the specific configuration of that project and or cell Common Cell Properties The cell properties described here are common to most cells For information on additional cell properties see the appropriate application documentation Component ID This property shows the name of the component Directory Name This property shows the directory where any information associated with this component resides For more information on the general ANSYS Workbench directory structure see Project File Manage ment p 71 Notes This property displays system and cell notes created via the Add Note context menu option For more information on adding notes see Common Context Menu Options p 265 Last Update Used Licenses This property shows the license used by this component during the most recent update If the component does not require a license during an update the value will be Not Applicable Always Include in Design Point Update This property is used for External Connection and CFD Post components It allows you to specify that a component should be included in any design point update operation even if it does not have outpu
22. User s Guide Submitting Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Update ee eeeeeeesseeeeeesneeeeeee 49 Submitting Solutions for Local Background and Remote Solve Manager RSM Processes 4 50 Submitting Mechanical Jobs tO RSIM icc psencesaniondisvetale at acs cevemnteagmernniermioay Meaar enn aeenss 55 Submitting Mechanical Application Jobs to RSM sssssscccccceeseesesneeeceeeeceseessnaeeeeeeeeeeees 55 Workbench RSM Integration with the Mechanical Application sssecccceeeeeeeeneees 56 Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to RSM ccccecceesssssecceeeeceeesessaceeeeeceseeeesneeeeeeeeseeeeees 58 Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to HPC via RSM esseeeesseeeceessneeeeeessneeeeesseeeeessnaeeeens 59 Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to PBS Via RSM esssccecessseeeeeessneeeeeesnneeeeessaeeeeessnaeeees 59 Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to LSF via RSM eessceeessseeeeeessneeecessnaeeeeessaeeeseesnaeeeees 60 Submitting Fluids Jobs to RSM isss sessirnir orisii iniiao enisi iiaei 60 Submitting CFX JOS t RSM aeeaiei atirans ia E E P REEE E EER EERS 60 Submitting CFX Jobs with Design Points to RSM ssesesssessesssssessssssrssssrressseresssereessssree 62 Submitting CFX Jobs to HPC via RSM seesssssssssssssssssssesssssrsssssressssreessseresssereessssreesssrre 62 Submitting CFX Jobs to PBS via RSM ccssssccccceceeeeessnneeeeeecesssessnaeeeeeceseeeessnee
23. and LSF does not recognize that the first job finished because the handler is still running In extreme circumstances if multiple jobs are started with no break between them then the first job that started the shared licensing handler cannot finish until the last job finishes and closes the shared licensing handler potentially resulting in a long delay If you are using Windows LSF scheduler we recommend that you either Make sure you run only one design point update job at a time on any execution node or Turn license sharing off by setting the environment variable ANSYSLI_FORCE_NOSHARE_UNDER_RSM 1 on the local computer that initiates the update Please be aware that setting this environment variable will cause the application to require one license per system in the project Product Specific Limitations Some ANSYS Inc products have additional limitations when submitting design points updates via RSM Rigid Body Dynamics and Explicit Dynamics Rigid Body Dynamics and Explicit solvers always use RSM for update of the Solution so it is not possible to update design points via RSM until special steps have been taken to enable update of Solution via RSM within design point update via RSM For assistance with enabling this functionality and configuring your system to support go to the Support page of the ANSYS Customer Portal and submit an online support request For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Custo
24. changes v 4 v B 2 Gi Geometry 2 R2 Setup F y Geometry 3 Solution Y 3 Icepak You can choose to not overwrite the solution via the dialog box shown below and the update will be cancelled o Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 203 ANSYS Workbench Systems Solution exists A solution already exists for ID IcepakProj00 overwrite it Note See Workbench Menu Options Overview for Icepak Projects for information on how to save your project PostProcessing of Icepak Results Icepak provides a two methods for examining the results of your simulation You can postprocess results inside of Icepak or by using CFD Post 1 To postprocess results in Icepak add an Icepak system to the project schematic and perform an analysis on the model You can then create graphical displays and examine your results in Icepak For details see Examining the Results in the Icepak documentation Use one of the following ways to connect to CFD Post Drag and drop a Results cell on top of the Icepak Solution cell to establish a connection Double click Results in the Toolbox under the Component Systems node to bring the Results system into the Project schematic click the Icepak Solution cell and drag it to the Results cell to establish a connection From the Results c
25. indicate all bundled connections For example linked systems that shared Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells would show a single link with the notation 2 47 indicating that cells 2 Engineering Data through 4 Model are connected Default is off This setting defines the initial default for all projects and can be overridden within each project using View gt Show Connections Bundled or by selecting this option from the context menu on the schematic Use of this option affects only newly created projects System Coordinates are Shown at Startup Shows the system label letters and numbers Default is on This setting defines the initial default for all projects and can be overridden within each project using View gt Show System Coordinates or by selecting this option from the context menu on the schematic Quick Help Icons in System Cells Shows the quick help icon in cells where quick help is available The icon appears as a small blue triangle in the lower right corner of the cell Default is on Word wrap Text in Tables Allows text in tables to wrap within the cells Default is on Regional and Language Options Specify the following regional and language options Language Allows you to specify the language to be used for ANSYS Workbench text and messages You can choose to use English German French or Japanese if localized files are available ANSYS Workbench defines the language via the languagesettings txt file the la
26. so it is always available in GUI or Batch mode Setting Parameters for Prism Meshing You can add prism meshing parameters using the Part Mesh Setup dialog 1 Click the Mesh tab 2 Click the Part Mesh Setup icon 3 In the Part Mesh Setup dialog choose a part and check the check box in the Prism column 4 Click in the Parameter column for the part 5 A dialog asks you to confirm that you want to create a Workbench parameter for Part PARTNAME Prism Note If any Workbench parameters are already set for the part a dialog will ask if you want to delete that Workbench parameter Setting User Defined Input Parameters 1 Within ICEM CFD choose Settings gt Workbench Parameters gt Workbench Input Parameters User defined 2 In the User Defined Workbench Input Parameters window check the Create User Defined Input Parameter check box 3 Enter a value for the Parameter name for example MY_PARAMETER 4 Enter a value for the Parameter for example 1 343 This value must not be empty 5 Click Apply or OK Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 191 ANSYS Workbench Systems You can edit this value in the Outline of Schematic Parameters window Note See the ANSYS ICEM CFD Programmer s Guide for information about using User Defined Parameters with Replay Scripting Deleting User d
27. 3D streamlines in the model Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 222 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Mechanical APDL You can use ANSYS Workbench to launch the Mechanical APDL application formerly known as ANSYS and thus to manage the various files often used and created by the Mechanical APDL application espe cially when working with a linked analysis e g thermal stress substructuring submodeling etc It is important that you understand the types of files that the Mechanical APDL application uses and generates because the actions you take in ANSYS Workbench will act on these files These files fall into three broad categories input reference and output Input Files Files that are consumed directly by the Mechanical APDL application Examples include e files consisting of Mechanical APDL commands generated manually or by Mechanical APDL log files or by the Mechanical or Meshing applications coded input files such as cdb files generated by Mechanical APDL FE Modeler and third party preprocessors e Mechanical APDL geometry files anf generated by Mechanical APDL or DesignModeler Note In some cases the Mechanical APDL solver will overwrite one of its input files with its gener ated output for example the file rst file from a Modal system in a Modal to Response Spectrum analysis linked to a
28. And like Tolerance Angle when node based components span large portions of a model clarity inaccuracies display in the graphical display of Mechanical Nodal Component Key If cdb files include nodal components you can specify them using this property to further facilitate accurate geometries in Mechanical Calculations to synthesize geometries using nodal components use the implicit method This method overrides Tolerance Angle values if present Analysis Type Define the cdb file as 3D default or 2D 3 Launch Mechanical Finite Element Modeler Use the FE Modeler system to import a mesh and create a faceted or NURBS geometry to export to an analysis or geometry system You can also create a parametric study within FE Modeler Right click the Model cell and select Edit or Import Mesh to input an existing mesh file You can link many systems to an FE Modeler system by using the Transfer Data From New or Transfer Data To New context menu options When transferring data from another system you can transfer data from Model Cell Setup Cell Mesh Cell When transferring data to another system you can transfer data to Geometry Cell Engineering Data Cell Model Cell Mesh Cell For more information on FE Modeler capabilities in ANSYS Workbench refer to FE Modeler System Usage in Workbench Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc
29. Base value t E Discrete values E C Inrange M Variable is by columns M Allow only multiples Current value 0 1 w New Y Apply ed Reset Delete Q Delete all variables Run Done J Cancel Publish to WB Help e In the Publish Variables panel select the input and output variables to publish to Workbench Note Variables can be selected independently In the case of multiple variables click the green check mark to toggle all variables on and off Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 207 ANSYS Workbench Systems Figure 2 The Publish Variables Panel Publish variables Publish to WB Input variables W Variable Value M zc 0 1 Ra Output variables WY Variable M Global maximum temperature on Pstat_in y Accept O Done J Cancel Click Accept to publish variables to Workbench click Done to publish variables and close the panel or click Cancel to withdraw the request ANSYS Workbench recognizes the parameters defined and exposes them in a parameter set bar that can be shared by multiple systems Double click the para meter bar or right mouse click and select Edit from the context menu to access the Parameters tab For information on defining parameters refer to Working with
30. Cell states will reflect this behavior Related Topics Updating Design Points Design Point Update Order Activating and Exporting Design Points Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM Reserving Licenses for a Design Point Update Design Point Update Data Design Point States Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 102 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points Updating Design Points Given a set of input parameter values for a design point output parameter values are calculated by updating the design point or the set of design points Updating design points will only update solution data where output parameters have been defined Note For External Connection and CFD Post systems it is possible to specify that a cell will always be updated with a design point update operation even when the update will not affect parameter values To do so open the cell properties and select the Always Include in Design Point Update check box You have several options to update design points Update One Design Point You can choose to update just one design point In the Table of Design Points in the Parameters tab right click on the desired design point and select Update Selected Design Points from the context menu A B c E 1 Name P1 ROADTHICK P2 ARCRADIUS P3 MASS P4 DEFORMATION 2 Curent 2 120 9 85E 0
31. Coordinates Shows the alphanumeric column and row headings for each system This option is selected by default Tools Menu The Tools menu provides the following project and user preference option Reconnect Reconnects to updates that were pending when the project was closed This option is available only if the project has cells in the Pending state After reconnecting to pending solution data it is important to save the project For a Solution cell update If you decline to save the project before exiting the intermediate solver data will be discarded and will not be accessible in future ANSYS Workbench sessions For more detailed information see Exiting a Project during an RSM Solution Cell Update p 68 Refresh Project Refreshes all cells in the project that are in a Refresh Required state Resume Resumes design point updates that were pending when the project was closed This option is available only if the project has design points that are paused due to cells in a Pending state Update All Design Points Updates all design points in a project that are in an Update Required state This option is available only when the project contains multiple design points Update Project Updates all cells in the project that are in an Update Required state Note If you use this option and the project is being updated remotely via RSM only the systems and cells above the Parameter Set bar will be submitted to RSM If needed Desig
32. Engine Linear Buckling Linear Buckling Samcef amp Magnetostatic E Modal GB Modal Samcef QB Random vibration E Response Specum E Rigid Dynamics QB Setic Structural Static Structural Semcef a Steady State Thermal GB steady state Thermal Samcef B Thermal Biectric Custom GUT iimport Recor Toobox a x Tools Unts Extensions Heb sect H Refresh Project F Update Project 1 State Structural 2 Engreermg data v 3 Geometry wa 4 model y 5 seto v 6 Solution va 7 Results y Static Structural h A A A A Y Vew Al Customize Ready Duplicating Systems To duplicate an existing system right click it and select Duplicate from the context menu The result of the operation will depend on the cell from which the Duplicate operation is initiated To create a duplicate system in which all cells can be edited independently of the original system right click the system header and select Duplicate as shown in the image below Note When a Mechanical system containing a Results cell is duplicated the results will NOT be copied to the new system The following Show Me Animations are presented as animated GIFs in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Release 15 0
33. Example Project A finished project that includes a Fluid Flow Polyflow system FFF a Mechanical application system MECH and parameters DesignXplorer might look like this Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 73 Working in ANSYS Workbench v A v B 2 0 Geometry Va 2 Engineering Data Y 3 Mesh v N Geometry Sg 4 Setup Zi 4 Model z 5 amp Solution Ww 5 Setup A 6 Results V 6 Solution v 7 Parameters 7 Results v Fluid Flow FLUENT 8 p Parameters Static Structural ANSYS pd Parameter Set The corresponding directory structure would look like this Myworkbenchproject_files dpo FFF DM Fluent MECH Fost global MECH FFF SYS SYS ENGD MECH dpall global DX Working with Files and Projects See the following sections for more information on Importing Files Archiving Projects Project Recovery Project Locking Importing Files When working in ANSYS Workbench you may need to import files such as input files existing mesh files geometries etc When you edit an imported file ANSYS Workbench saves a copy of the file to the project directory rather than overwriting the original file This process ensures that your original files are never comprom ised Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential in
34. Flow Extrus Fluid Flow CFX 2 Solution vi Fluid Flow FLUEN 6 Results v4 Fluid Flow POLYF Single phase x Harmonic Respon Hydrodynamic Dif Hydrodynamic Tir Linear Buckling Magnetostatic Cell Setup 3 requires user input before it can be Modal Informational updated 1 6 2009 10 26 07 AM Modal Samcef z Random Vibration Informational oar 3 reques sey input before E canbe 1 6 2009 10 22 25 AM Response Spectru f Rigid Dynamics Error An error occurred while CFX Pre was refreshing 1 6 2009 10 21 32 AM 3 Q o o a 5 z Shape Optimizatio icons Static Structural 5 Informational P aoa en o eee 1 6 2009 10 20 36 AM Event publishing failed Working location for gt Ready Show Progress A Hide 48 Messages E You can display or hide the Messages view by clicking the Show Messages or Hide Messages button in the lower right corner of any ANSYS Workbench tab Progress View The Progress view displays a progress bar during an update You can display or hide the Progress view by clicking the Show Progress or Hide Progress button in the lower right corner of any ANSYS Work bench tab To interrupt an update process click the Interrupt button of the Progress view Be aware that not all processes can be interrupted and some processes that are interruptible may have periods where they cannot be interrupted Because some processes can stop cleanly only at certain chec
35. For example the Mechanical application will write figures and images and contact tool data to the appropriate system subdirectory under the global folder user_files Subdirectory Also under the project folder is a user_files directory This folder contains any files such as input files referenced files etc that you supply to a project or any output images charts movie clips etc generated by ANSYS Workbench that you wish to have associated with the project In most cases you are responsible for placing required files into this directory In other cases such as the export of design point update data from a design exploration system to a CSV log file data is written directly to a file created in this directory For more information on design point data being exported to a CSV file see Extended CSV File Format in the DesignXplorer help Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 72 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Project File Management Along with other project files all of the files contained in the user_files directory appear in the Files view in ANSYS Workbench Thus any files that you have placed into this directory can be accessed easily from the ANSYS Workbench user interface via the Open Containing Folder option of the right click context menu ANSYS Workbench also protects this directory and ensures that it is managed and archived appropri
36. Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems atical models e g Generalized Newtonian Viscoelastic etc select materials define boundary conditions and specify solution controls that best represent the problem to be solved Polyflow solves the math ematical equations and the results of the simulation can be displayed in CFD Post for further analysis e g contours vectors etc 1 Add a Polyflow Blow Molding Polyflow or Extrusion Polyflow fluid flow analysis system by dragging the system from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the system in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking the Geometry cell and clicking Import Geometry in the context menu that opens Alternatively you can create the geometry in DesignModeler by right clicking the Geometry cell and clicking New Geometry in the context menu that opens 3 Create a mesh by right clicking the Mesh cell and clicking Edit in the context menu that opens Altern atively you can import a previously saved mesh by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Import Mesh in the context menu that opens You can merge scale translate and rotate the mesh by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Polyfuse in the context menu that opens 4 You can define your preferences for Polydata by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Preferences and Polydata in the context menu that opens 5 Specify the simulation setup by ri
37. Mechanical APDL component system If this occurs subsequent updates of the Mechanical APDL component system will fail To copy the correct input from an upstream system perform a Reset operation on the Mechanical APDL component system Referenced Files Files that are referenced by the execution of an input file Examples include e database files results files command macro files e superelement files solver files CAD geometry files Output Files Files that are produced by all Mechanical APDL application runs Primary output files include e results file rst rth etc output file out of the command echoes solution information and requested data listings log file 10g of the commands issued to the Mechanical APDL application error file err listing any warnings or errors encountered Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 223 ANSYS Workbench Systems Working with a Mechanical APDL Analysis To add a Mechanical APDL analysis to your project double click the Mechanical APDL object or drag and drop it from the Component Systems area of the Toolbox into the Project Schematic A Mechanical APDL system appears in the Project Schematic You can easily connect other systems to a Mechanical APDL system by using the Transfer Data From New or Transfer Data To New context menu options
38. OS s cassis ea gic star ect Sauer dain eae EEE av ale leans 115 Returning Reserved Licenses sci nahevsecvassdehinduuatyetansdevenssesivavadscanineavah dy tuas Geran ddan tes aesigheydtaa tadeand 116 Using HPC Parametric Pack Licenses vais caccave vcsseabivatoseach canwduet canteavateegabvaledaach sebeyeiuvenbderaseieo van 116 Design Point Update Data sieisen veanas i aaah ee dea a a anne i aia naan 117 Design POINUStates ccccccdsesceicecabesicd ikee EE ofevied cdvunedacdedacsdeeevavecdiesavedcdeynevacd ECERS VEERE EREE ERE 117 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM cccsesssscccccecesesessnececeeceeseessnneeeeeeeceseeessaaeeeeeecesseeesnaaeeeeees 119 Creating a REPositOry CONNECTION esasi ngoerip ii ia E g S anar EE S EKE E E erara K ga 119 Launching EKM with a Web Browser ssesesssssssssssesssssessssseessssrtessseresssetessssreesssteessssreessseresssereesssteesssees 120 Working with Existing Repository Connections sicsisccssceccavsascsvansadecoaveneveiararsavvargasdevabantedsedouasenesenennsiyanes 120 Registering an ANSYS Workbench Session with an EKM Repository ssssssssssssssssssssssseesssresssssessssseesssere 121 Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository ssssessssssesssssesssssesssssressssreessseres 122 Saving a Project to an EKM Repository sssssssssssssseesssssssssseeersssssssseeerrssssssseeeeesessssseceeseesssseeeeereeess 123 Opening a Project from an EKM Repository ssesscccessercessesseccess
39. Polyflow see the online help in Polyflow as well as the sep arate ANSYS Polyflow User s Guide In addition please see the separate ANSYS Polyflow section in the ANSYS Workbench User s Guide Harmonic Response In a structural system any sustained cyclic load will produce a sustained cyclic harmonic response Harmonic analysis results are used to determine the steady state response of a linear structure to loads that vary sinusoidally harmonically with time thus enabling you to verify whether or not your designs will successfully overcome resonance fatigue and other harmful effects of forced vibrations This ana lysis technique calculates only the steady state forced vibrations of a structure typically at a number of discrete points within a range of frequencies The transient vibrations which occur at the beginning of the excitation are not accounted for in a harmonic response analysis Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 141 ANSYS Workbench Systems You will configure your harmonic response analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution 1 Adda harmonic response analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and
40. Post click the box in the Exported column for that design point before you update that design point Otherwise the data for that design point is auto matically deleted after the output parameters for that design point are updated If you choose to export a design point the data associated with that design point is exported to a new project The new project is located in the same directory as the original project The name of the project is the same as the name of the original project except that it is appended with _dpn where n is the row number that corresponds to the design point in the original project s Table of Design Points Important Note that you cannot create edit delete or rename parameters in Icepak if any iterations or time steps have been performed If you want to create edit delete or rename Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Systems parameters in Icepak for a case with an existing solution you must first initialize the solution 5 Optimization of an lcepak system can be performed in ANSYS DesignXplorer ANSYS DesignXplorer provides various optimization methods with parameters as its fundamental components These para meters can come from any supported analysis system such as Icepak DesignModeler and various CAD systems Responses can be studied quantified an
41. Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the HPC cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired The HPC cluster automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring HPC clusters see Appendix Ein the Remote Solve Manager documentation Submitting CFX Jobs to PBS via RSM If you have a PBS queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the PBS cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired PBS automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring PBS clusters see Appendix C in the Remote Solve Manager documentation Note PBS clusters on Windows are not supported Submitting CFX Jobs to LSF via RSM If you have an LSF queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Pro cesses pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the LSF cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 62 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench 4 Set the Number of Processes
42. Setup Pi 6 Results j 6 Solution Fin 6 Solution F 7 2 Parameters 7 Results Pix 7 Results a Fluid Flow CFX 8 bp Parameters 8 p Parameters Static Structural Modal bd Parameter Set l v D v E F 1 Al Response Surface 1 Goal Driven Optimization 1 py Parameters Correlation 2 Design of Experiments gt 2 _4 Design of Experiments 4 2 Bi Parameters Correlation 3 BW Response Surface P 3 H Response Surface A Ene a Parameters Correlation Response Surface 4 Optimization og j 4 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 7 Overview Working with Shared Data Links Links that are drawn with a square terminator indicate that data is shared between the two systems Only one instance of the data exists and it is shared between the connected systems In order to edit the details of that data you must edit the cell on the upstream system connected via these links In the example shown in the figure above the Geometry cell from system A is shared with the Geometry cell in system B which is in turn shared with the Geometry cell of system C In order to edit the geometry for ANY of these systems you must initiate the edit operation from the Geometry cell in system A by double clicking on the cell or right clicking on the cell and selecting Edit from the context men
43. Start Replay Recording ij Pause Replay Recording Hi Stop Replay Recordina Run Replay Recording x Delete Replay File Workbench Replay Control Note If you create Workbench Input Parameters and want to step line by line or using a line range through a replay file you must use the Replay Control item from this menu to start the Workbench Replay Control dialog Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 186 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Output Mesh You can choose to save the ICEM CFD mesh output to Fluent CFX or Polyflow projects z amp E Workbench Replay Control Dialog The Replay Control dialog helps you create test and edit script files by performing operations in ANSYS ICEM CFD and recording the equivalent Tcl Tk commands in a Replay file You can then use the dialog to step through and edit the script The Workbench Replay Control dialog works exactly the same as the standalone Replay Control dialog with two key exceptions The Workbench Replay Control dialog supports Workbench Input Parameters and allows you to step through them e The dialog automatically loads the current Replay script file ICM rp1 instead of opening a file browser Replay control in Workbench 2 0 Framew amp 2 Operations in script 1 Replay file ICEM CFD 15 0 in Workbench 2 0 Fram
44. Tab are using Mechanical APDL on an independent input file and using Mechanical on a geometry file that has related origins to the input file of the Mechanical APDL system You can create a new independent system via either of the following methods Double click the desired system in the Toolbox The new system will be created on the Project Schematic below and will not be linked to any existing systems Use a drag and drop operation When you drag the system from the Toolbox and move it over the Project Schematic you will see all a preview of all possible drop targets including the possible links for each target Be sure to drop the template on the target that best reflects your engineering intent which in this case is to create an independent system For an animated example see Adding a System using Drag and Drop p 34 Creating Connected Systems Connected systems are systems on the Project Schematic that are connected together via data links so data can be shared and or transferred between the two systems You can use connected systems for sequential physics coupling e g thermal stress or for sequential simulation steps such as a pre stress modal stress analysis followed by modal mode superposition modal followed by harmonic etc You can either create connections between existing systems or create a new system that is connected to an existing system Note When using a drag and drop operation to create
45. Therma left drag it into the Project Schematic at right and drop it 5 a inside the highlighted rectangle roughiow S cet oe 2 Right click on the Geometry cell to create a new geometry ae or import existing geometry Seratan Ahn R i pec a 3 Continue working through the system from top to bottom iis Right click and select Edit on a cell to start the appropriate Engineering Data annlicatinn and define the dataile for that nart of the analvcic r Ai A SOS ae Pence Se tt a External Data Finite ElementModeler E Fluent E Fluent with TGrid meshing Geometry kepak AN Mechanical APOL z Y View Al Customize Ready Step 2 Build the Model 1 Add a Geometry template by dragging the template from the Toolbar under the Component Systems node into the Project Schematic Perform a right mouse click on the Geometry cell and click Import Geometry Click Browse and select graphics_card_simple stp to load the geometry Note The graphics_card_simple stp can be found at ICEPAK_ROOT tutorials Workbench You must replace ICEPAK_ROOT by the full path name of the directory where ANSYS Icepak is installed on your computer system Note A green check mark in the Geometry cell indicates the geometry has been imported successfully 2 Double click on the Geometry cell to open DesignModeler you will need to edit the geometry first before exporting into ANSYS Icepak Rel
46. To delete a note delete the text within the pane or from the Properties view The content of notes is also included in project reports Project Schematic Context Menu Options Right click the white space in the Project Schematic for the following options Not all menu options may be visible at all times depending on the specific configuration of your project i Refresh Project F Update Project Reconnect Clear All Generated Data Properties Add to Custom New Analysis Systems gt New Component Systems gt New Custom Systems b New Design Exploration gt Show Connections Bundled Show System Coordinates Fit Resume Resumes design point updates that were pending when the project was closed This option is available only if the project has design points that are paused due to cells in a Pending state Refresh Project Refreshes all cells in the project Reconnect Reconnects to updates that were pending when the project was closed This option is available only if the project has cells in the Pending state Upon opening a project ANSYS Workbench automatically retrieves the data for any completed background update without the need for you to press the Reconnect button If you decline to save the project before exiting this solver data will be discarded and will not be accessible in future ANSYS Workbench sessions Update All Design Points Performs an update for the selected entry for all design points defined in t
47. To restore an archived file select File gt Restore Archive You will be prompted for a project path to which the archive will be extracted and then that project will be opened Note If your project contains Imported Boundary Conditions in the Mechanical application you should choose to include result solution items so that the necessary upstream files are archived Failure to archive these files will prevent you from importing data or accessing features that involve reading upstream data when the project is restored Windows Only On Windows systems you can also double click the wbpz file to open the archive If you double click the wbpz to open a file and then make changes to the project when you save the project you will be prompted to either overwrite the archive create a copy of the archive or cancel the save operation If you choose to create a copy of the archive you will be prompted for a name and location for the copy The new copy will also have a wbpz extension After the save operation you will be returned to ANSYS Workbench working in the new copy archive The original archive will remain unchanged Use File gt Save As to restore the project to a wbpj file You cannot update retained design points when working in an archived project If you choose to update a design point with the retained option on you will be prompted to first use File gt Save As to save the project as a wbpj file Project Recovery
48. When the Table view is included on a tab it allows you to view project data in table format Examples of the Table view are the Table of Design Points on the Parameter Set tab and the Table of Properties on an Engineering Data tab Table of Design Points 2 3 Current 45 1 044 0 90993 4 DP1 30 0 52915 2 6458 i 5 DP2 135 7 F L 6 DP3 180 4 4 a EE O E Some tables are editable and some are not In general if you can add a new row you will see an asterisk in the last row If a cell is editable you will be able to double click in the cell to select the content and change it In some tables columns may include a drop down menu of additional actions that are available for that column Tables for different applications and different purposes will have different features and behavior See your application documentation for details on using tables in your specific application Chart View When the Chart view is included on a tab it allows you to view charts that have been added and generated for the project you can add charts or new chart instances from the Toolbox Each type of tab has different charts available for example the Parameter Set tab will have a different set of charts than a DesignXplorer Parameters Correlation tab does For more detailed information about using charts see Working with the Chart View p 81 Scene View The Scene view is available in the System
49. ZX These properties allow you to rotate the model about its origin in the XY YZ or ZX plane If you specify any copies the rotation will be applied relative to the pre vious copy or source mesh in the case of the first copy Any change in these properties will put the downstream mesh in a state of refresh required Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Systems Microsoft Office Excel Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or 2010 can be used as a calculator in ANSYS Workbench via the Microsoft Office Excel system template found in the Component Systems toolbox This feature exposes Excel ranges as input and output parameters to ANSYS Workbench which can be used to create Design Points and Design Exploration studies Note The Excel add in is included with ANSYS Workbench It does not require DesignXplorer or any other specific ANSYS product but it must connect to a locally installed seat of Microsoft Excel purchased separately Using Excel with ANSYS Workbench Projects topics Preparing the Excel file Set Up the Excel Calculator Support of Units File management and modification of the worksheet Limitations Troubleshooting Preparing the Excel file To be exposed as parameters in Workbench the ranges must be named in Excel The names are filtered during the addition of the Excel file to the
50. a project while a Solution cell update job is still running the following scenarios will cause a dialog to display allowing you to specify whether you want to save the project before ex iting You have never saved the project at any time after the same Solution cell update job was initiated You have saved the project at least once after the same Solution cell update was initiated but results have been retrieved since your last Save In either of these cases if you do not save the project before exiting All results retrieved since the last Save operation will be lost You must save the project before exiting if you want to keep any of results retrieved since the last save of the background Solution cell update If the project has never been saved after the Solution cell update job was initiated all RSM jobs will be aborted and will show a Status of Cancelled and the Cancelled icon i in the RSM List view the asterisk on the icon indicates that the job has also been released When you reopen the project it will be in the state of your last manual save Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 68 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Journals and Scripts If the project has been saved at least once after the Solution cell update job was initiated RSM jobs that are queued and running will continue to run after you exit When you reopen t
51. adding new systems double click the system in the Toolbox drag the system from the Toolbox and drop it into the Project Schematic Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 33 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab right click the Project Schematic and select the system from the context menu Adding a System by Double Clicking The simplest way to add a new system to the Project Schematic is to double click on the desired system in the Toolbox A single click simply selects an object and does not modify data or initiate any action The system will be placed in a new row in the Project Schematic below any existing systems Adding a System using Drag and Drop You can add a system to the Project Schematic by dragging it from the Toolbox and dropping it in the desired location This method provides a preview of possible target locations allowing you to choose the best location for that system The green boxes in the following animation indicate possible drop targets If you move the mouse over one of the drop targets the box will change to red and text will indicate the result of dropping at that location In cases where the new system can be linked to one or more existing systems drop targets are also shown on the eligible cells of the existing system s The following animation demonstrates adding syst
52. analysis types that can provide data to the existing cell To create a new system downstream of the existing system so the new system is dependent right click the target cell in the existing system and select Transfer Data to New Select your new system from a list of all possible analysis types that can accept data from the existing cell Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 45 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab When using either of the Transfer Data options all possible cells will be shared up to the position of the selected cell The following animation demonstrates using the Transfer Data to New option to add an upstream Linear Buckling system to an existing Static Structural system The following Show Me animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product A WS2a spring Workbench Project B Analysis Systems Design Assesoment Bectnc G Explicit Oynamics Fluid Flow Blow Malding Polyfiow Fluid Flow Scrusion Polyfiow Fluid Flow cag Fluid Flow Fluent E Fuid Flow Polyfiow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffraction Hydrodynamic Time Response i IC
53. and click Release Selected This feature is in tended only as a license recovery method and should not be used in normal operations See Reserving Licenses for a Design Point Update p 114 for more information about using reserved licenses for a design point study Launch Remote Solve Manager Launches the Remote Solve Manager RSM interface With the RSM user interface you can filter jobs by status Manage queues and servers of local and remote solve managers monitor the progress of jobs and delete jobs For detailed information on running RSM see the Remote Solve Manager User s Guide Options Defines your preferences for ANSYS Workbench The preferences you set here are local settings and affect only you For detailed descriptions of the Options settings see Setting ANSYS Workbench Options Units Menu The Units provides the following options for specifying unit systems Display Values as Defined The value and unit as defined in ANSYS Workbench or the original source application will be displayed No conversion information is displayed Display Values in Project Units The value will be converted for display to correspond to the selected project unit system Unit Systems Allows you to access the Unit Systems dialog where you can choose to display any or all of the pre defined unit systems Quantity names and units for each of the predefined unit systems is also shown You can also define custom unit systems as well For custom unit
54. as a separate job to RSM simultaneous parallel updates gt Specify Maximum Number of Jobs Design points are divided into groups and submitted in multiple jobs up to the specified maximum number of jobs You can look at the RSM List view to determine which design points are assigned to each job If you select this option the Max imum Number of Jobs property is enabled allowing you to specify the maximum number of jobs that can be created If you have not configured Solve Managers or Queues please refer to the RSM Overview in the Remote Solve Manager User s Guide for more information Default Design Point Update Order Specify the order in which design points are updated By default design points are solved in the order in which they appear in the Table of Design Points As each design point is updated it begins from the parameter values associated with DPO When updating design points it may be more efficient to update design points starting from parameter values from the previous design point rather than starting from DPO Current each time This option allows you to specify the starting condition for each design point Update from Current DPO Causes each design point to be updated starting from DPO the default Update design points in order Causes each design point to be updated starting from the previous design point If you selected One Job for Each Design Point in the Default Job Submission field the Default D
55. button depressed slide the mouse to another location on the interface before releasing the mouse button Drag and drop can be used to introduce systems to the schematic from the Toolbox to move systems in the schematic or to form connections between existing systems in the schematic Systems in the Project Schematic that are dependent on each other in some manner are connected with links Links with a square terminator indicate that data is shared between the two cells connected by the link and links with a round terminator indicate that data is transferred from the upstream to the downstream cell A region of the interface that contains menu options from which you can choose various actions views and settings An entity that is linked to a data model property within an application Parameters can be input output or custom The project is the full collection of systems components data and their connections that you create to achieve an overall CAE goal A region of the ANSYS Workbench project window where you will con struct and interact with your project Projects are represented as connec ted systems displayed in a flowchart form that allows engineering intent data relationships and the state of the analysis project to be understood at a glance An update of an entire ANSYS Workbench project All of the systems components and design points in the project are updated An action that reads in all modified upstream data b
56. case 6 Analyze the results of the calculations in CFD Post by double clicking the Results cell For detailed information on working with IC Engine see Internal Combustion Engines in Workbench Linear Buckling and Linear Buckling Samcef Linear buckling also called as Eigenvalue buckling analysis predicts the theoretical buckling strength of an ideal elastic structure This method corresponds to the textbook approach to elastic buckling analysis for instance an eigenvalue buckling analysis of a column will match the classical Euler solution However imperfections and nonlinearities prevent most real world structures from achieving their theoretical elastic buckling strength Thus linear buckling analysis often yields quick but non conservative results You will configure your linear buckling analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS or the Samcef solver to compute the solution A linear buckling analysis must follow a prestressed static structural analysis Follow the instructions in Static Structural and Static Structural Samcef p 147 to build a prestressed Static Structural system and then follow the instructions below to build and link a linear buckling system 1 From the Static Structural system right click on the Solution cell and select Transfer Data to New gt Linear Buckling 2 Anew linear buckling system is created with the Engineering Data Geometry Model and Setup cells linked from the stat
57. cell to launch Mechanical 5 While in Mechanical insert the appropriate loads based on the type of analysis Please see Icepak to Mechanical Data Transfer for a detailed description of how to import an external load Design Explorer Icepak Coupling in Workbench The exploration of a given design can be performed by using optimization algorithms in ANSYS DesignXplorer Parameters exposed from Icepak provide a method for solving an optimization and or parameterization problem To publish Icepak variables follow the procedure below 1 In Icepak define input and output parameters See Overview of Parameterization for a description on how to define parameters Note The Design variables tab of the Parameters and optimization panel displays all the parameters names that are currently defined along with their associated values 2 In the Setup tab of the Parameters and optimization panel select Single trial current values for Trial type if not already selected 3 Click the Publish to WB button at the bottom of the Parameters and optimization panel to display the Publish Variables panel Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 206 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Figure 1 The Parameters and optimization Panel Parameters and optimization Setup Design variables Functions Trials zc Yariable values fend
58. change derived parameters other parameters will not be affected by this change and so will not require an update Design points that are being updated via RSM will appear in a Pending state in the Table of Design Points while the remote design point update is in progress When each finished design point is retrieved the associated output parameters will be updated to reflect the results of the update if successful Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 118 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM The ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager EKM is a simulation process and data management SPDM software system that enables you to store share report and operate on your simulation data in an accessible web based environment While EKM can operate as a standalone system its integration with ANSYS Workbench streamlines the process of storing retrieving and sharing your Workbench projects within an EKM repository Through EKM you can e Archive completed projects or store works in progress to local or remote storage Share and collaborate on your projects Change the permissions of projects or place them under versioning control Search projects based on names dates simulation type or other criteria Retrieve your own projects or those shared by other users ANSYS EKM provides access to a simulation data repos
59. choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your harmonic response analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features A mode superposition harmonic analysis will automatically run the modal portion of the solution and cannot transfer data from a separate modal system in the Project Schematic See Harmonic Response Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a harmonic response analysis in the Mechanical application Hydrodynamic Diffraction Aqwa allows for the calculation of Wave Forces and Structure Motions in regular or irregular waves You specify the geometry in DesignModeler and Aqwa specific solution parameters within the Aqwa application where the calculations are solved Use an Aqwa Hydrodynamic Diffraction analysis system to apply a computational mesh to a geometry within the Aqwa application and produce a solution 1 Adda Hydrodynamic Diffraction analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry Alternatively you can create the geometry in DesignModeler
60. color in the graphics window or to use the Workbench color scheme Default Enabled Setup Compilation Environment for UDF Allows you to specify compiler settings for compiling user defined functions UDFs with Fluent Default Enabled Precision Allows you to choose either the single precision or the double precision solver Setup Cell The option applies to the Setup cell for new Fluent based systems Enable Generation of Setup Output Case File Allows you to bypass loading the mesh and setting files and reapplying the pre set mesh oper ations every time the Setup cell is edited resulting in faster runs This option is especially bene ficial when computing simulations across multiple design points involving ANSYS Fluent related Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 24 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options parametric changes The Fluent solver automatically generates the output case file name Setup Output cas every time you modify the mesh or set mesh operations prior to running the simulation in ANSYS Fluent or start a Fluent session with a mesh file only The generated output case file will be used when launching the next Fluent session from the Setup cell if the regular case file is out of date or not available Default Enabled Solution Cell These options apply to the Solution cell for new Fluent bas
61. communicates with ANSYS Workbench Systems in the Design Exploration group are used to access DesignXplorer functionality These systems connect to the Parameter Set bar in order to drive parametric studies by varying project parameters A set of input parameter values and corresponding output parameter values associated with a single instance of a parameterized project definition An update of one or more design points in an ANSYS Workbench project You can update a single design point a selected set of design points or all of the design points in a project During a design point update solu tion data is updated only where output parameters have been defined Design point updates can be submitted to Remote Solve Manager In the Project Schematic data flows from top to bottom within systems and from left to right between systems A cell is said to be downstream if it is below a cell in the same system or to the right of a cell in a separ ate system Downstream cells use data from upstream cells as input Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 277 Glossary drag and drop links Menu Bar Parameter Project Project Schematic project update refresh right mouse click systems tab Toolbar Toolbox An action where you depress the left mouse button over an object and while keeping the
62. component system in Workbench using any of these methods Double click the ICEM CFD system template in the Toolbox Drag and drop the ICEM CFD system template onto the Project Schematic Right click on a Geometry or Mesh project and select Transfer Data to New gt ICEM CFD Choose File gt Import to import a standalone ICEM CFD project into Workbench When the Import dialog opens choose ICEM CFD Project File prj and navigate to the project you want to import Updating ICEM CFD Projects Updating a project in Workbench brings the entire ICEM CFD system up to the most current status in cluding upstream and downstream data Changes that require you to update your ICEM CFD project include changes to upstream data and changes you make in the ICEM CFD editor When changes are made the cell in the Project Schematic window indicates that an update is required Note however that changes made in the ICEM CFD editor will not cause the system to go out of date until the project tetin file geometry blocking file and or Replay file are saved Note Named selections defined in Mesh systems are available only within the Mesh system They are not available to downstream systems like ICEM CFD The actions taken by Workbench depend on whether the following conditions are met e Blocking exists A Replay file exists Blocking parameters are set Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary a
63. connection poly file from the Mesh cell to the Setup cell of the Polyflow system Update Refresh Clear Generated Data Reset Rename Properties Standard actions as described in Common Context Menu Options p 265 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 229 ANSYS Workbench Systems Mesh to Mesh Connections Multiple Mesh component systems can be merged together by creating a connection between the Mesh cells of each component system This allows you to build up more complicated meshes from smaller more simple meshes Ww 1 iy 2 0M Geometry v 4 3 y Mesh V 4 Meshi v 1 i 2 Geometry Y 3 Mesh Voa Mesh2 For every upstream Mesh cell connected to a downstream Mesh cell a new set of properties called Rigid Transformation for Mesh component name will appear in the Properties view of the down stream Mesh cell In the above example with two upstream Mesh components connected to single downstream Mesh component the Properties view of the downstream Mesh cell B3 would have two new groups of properties Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 230 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 14 General Mesh Assembly Properties Rigid Transformation for Mesh1 Length Uni
64. connections keep in mind that when multiple drop targets are available each one results in a different set of connections Connecting Two Existing Systems To connect two existing systems use a drag and drop operation to share one or more component cells for example a Geometry cell and or an Engineering Data cell from one system with eligible cells in another system To preview possible drop targets drag a cell from the source system and hold it over cells in the target system Drop the system on the target best suited to your engineering goals In this case the data is shared and the two systems are then independent of each other Creating a New Connected System When you create a new system that is connected to an existing system ANSYS Workbench generates shares and or data transfers between the systems to achieve a compound analysis In this case the data is shared and the two systems are then interdependent The new system can be created either upstream i e the new system provides inputs to the existing system or downstream i e the new system receives inputs from the new system of the existing system The system receiving input is also called the dependent system To create a new connected system you can use either a drag and drop operation or ANSYS Workbench s Transfer Data context options Use Drag and Drop If you already know what kind of system you want to create you can use drag and drop functionality to create a
65. current design point you can use the Copy inputs to Current option on that design point s context menu If you want to save the data files for another design point s you must mark it for export before updating that design point s While the design point update is running ANSYS Workbench creates temporary design point folders If you select a design point for export the temporary design point folder is saved as a new project named lt filename gt _dpn_files where dpn indicates the design point number you exported This folder will be a sibling to the original lt fi 1lename gt _files project folder To export a design point you must mark it for export before updating it if a design point is already up to date and is then marked for export you must update the design point again in order to export it For projects that include a Design Exploration system ANSYS Workbench creates a dpal1 folder containing the input and output parameters when a design point update occurs If you change a parameter in an exported design point and then run an update the exported project files will be overwritten However if you first deselect the Exported check box then change the design point and then run an update the exported project will not be overwritten but will no longer be con sistent with the data in the Table of Parameters For more details on working with parameters and design points see Working with Parameters and Design Points p 93
66. data exists and you attempt to open ANSYS Fluent from the Setup cell When you open Fluent from the Setup cell the mesh and settings file associated with the Setup cell are loaded into Fluent which may or may not be what you want When this option is selected the warning dialog is shown Default Enabled Automatically Delete Old Solutions On Start Of New Calculation Allows you to be able to automatically remove old solution data when starting new computation Default Enabled Default Options for New Fluent System Once set these options apply to all newly created Fluent based systems in the Workbench project They can be overridden by editing the properties specified for the Setup and Solution cell The settings specified in the Setup and Solution cell properties are always respected and saved with the Workbench project Therefore for previously saved projects these saved settings are used Launcher Options These options apply to Fluent Launcher for new Fluent based systems Show Launcher at Startup Allows you to show or hide Fluent Launcher when Fluent starts Default Enabled Display Mesh After Reading Allows you to show or hide the mesh after the mesh or case data is read into Fluent Default Enabled Embed Graphics Windows Allows you to embed the graphics windows in the Fluent application window or to have them free standing Default Enabled Use Workbench Color Scheme Allows you to use either the classic black background
67. directory preference defaults to TEMP WorkbenchLogs On Linux the directory preference defaults to the following in order 1 STEMP WorkbenchLogs 2 STMP WorkbenchLogs 3 SHOME ansys WorkbenchLogs The log file directory preference takes effect immediately when the Options dialog is closed Days to Keep Workbench Log File Specify the number of days to keep Workbench log files De faults to 7 days Project Reporting Specify the following project reporting options Use these settings to control project reporting behavior Select After exporting report automatically open in default browser to launch your default browser and load the report immediately upon gener ation If you do not select this option you will need to navigate to the report file in user_files in the project directory by default and open the htm1 htm file manually after exporting the report Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 18 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options Solution Process Use these settings to control the defaults for the Solution Process properties where available on Solution cells For projects with parametric design points these settings also control the defaults for the Design Point Update Process setting for the Parameter Set bar For more information on using the Solution Process properties to submit a job to RSM s
68. edit add or delete a file from the operating system file manager ANSYS Workbench will not recognize or be aware of any changes that you make directly in the file system such as adding or removing a file However if used with caution this view can be a useful way to edit files such as application input files for example the Mechanical APDL application input files Right click any of the cells and select File Type Filter to choose which types of files you want to appear in the Files view Right click one or more of the cells and select Copy to copy the text in the selected cell s Outline View When data is available for an item the Outline view presents data in an outline form You can access the Outline view on the Project tab the Parameter Set tab the Parameters tab or the tab for any cell in a Design Exploration or Engineering Data system To do so double click the Parameter Set bar or a system cell or by right clicking and selecting Edit from the context menu Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 248 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Views within Tabs ox EE a x x E Analysis Systems Eat E Component Systems Custom Systems a amp v Design of Experime
69. folder Define additional folders in which ACT will search from extensions in order to expose them to the Extension Manager The Extension Manager contains any extensions located in these folders Save Binary Extensions with Project Specify if extensions should be save when the project is saved Select from the following options Never The current loaded extensions are not saved within the project Copied but locked to the project The extensions are saved within the project but are limited to that project Always The extensions are not saved within the project with no restrictions as to their use in other projects Under Development select the Debug Mode check box to activate debugging mode in the Mechan ical application For more detailed information on extensions options see the ANSYS Workbench Customization Toolkit Developer s Guide in the ANSYS Customization Suite Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 21 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Mechanical APDL Specify the following options for the Mechanical APDL application Startup command line options Default memory sizes e Number of processors Default jobname Default license level Graphics device e Start ans usage Custom executable path Download Distributed Files These items are described in detail in the ANSYS Launcher
70. following in the project schematic i Icepak 2 setu PF 3 Solution 1 Icepak Note ANSYS Workbench provides visual indications of a cell s state at any given time with the use of icons on the right side of each cell The descriptions of these icons are described in Under standing Cell States Note A description of context menu options can be found in Context Menu Options 1 The first option for creating an Icepak project is described below a Right click the Setup cell and select Edit or double click the Setup cell This step will launch Icepak b Create a geometry within the Icepak application After creating a geometry the system will show an incomplete cell state Renee eeeseesessessesensseas 3 yp Solution Icepak 7 indicates the system has not been solved c In Icepak set up the problem and complete your analysis using Icepak s tools and features After solving the Icepak system will show an up to date cell state as shown below Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 197 ANSYS Workbench Systems Setup 3 Solution v ai Icepak indicates that all necessary files are loaded and up to date 2 The second option for creating an Icepak project is described below a After adding an Icepak template you can load an existing Icepak model by doing a right mouse c
71. for ANSYS Fluent while consuming only 2 HPC Packs or 32 ANSYS HPC processes See HPC Parametric Pack Licensing in the Installation and Licensing Documentation for additional details about using HPC Parametric Packs Design Point Update Data When design points are updated DesignXplorer provides the following methods of retaining parameter data for solved design points It saves design point data to the design point cache DesignXplorer reuses data from the cache when you preview or update a Design Exploration system For more information see Cache of Design Point Results in the Design Exploration User s Guide It exports design point data into design point log files You can import the log file back into DesignXplorer as needed For more information see Design Point Log Files in the Design Exploration User s Guide It allows you to export all the design point values to an ASCII file This functionality is available for DesignXplorer charts or tables containing design point data and for the Table of Design Points The parameter values in the file can then be used by other programs for further processing or imported into DesignXplorer as needed For more information see Exporting Design Point Values to an ASCII File p 106 Note Both the design point log files and the ASCII file are formatted in DesignXplorer s Ex tended CSV File Format For details on the file formatting see Extended CSV File Format in the DesignX
72. from the original system and can be modified independently To duplicate multiple connected systems the equivalent of duplicating at the Model level with multiple environments in previous releases of the Mechanical application you must use the Export capability in the Mechanical application to save a mechdat Then use ANSYS Workbench s Importing Legacy Databases p 78 capability to import the mechdat into your project to create the duplicated set of systems Note When a Mechanical system containing a Results cell is duplicated the results will NOT be copied to the new system Moving Deleting and Replacing Systems Moving a System You can move an existing system to another position on the Project Schematic To move a system click on the header cell and drag the system to the new location The preview will indicate possible target locations for the system Deleting a System To delete a system from the Project Schematic right click the system header cell and select Delete Replacing a System To replace an existing system with different type of system right click the system header cell and select Replace With and select the type of system that will replace the existing system The context menu contains a list of all system types that are eligible to replace the existing system Note The units setting specified in an existing system is not maintained in the replacement system In the replacement system you must spec
73. geometry data for use in BladeGen or BladeEditor It also provides estimates of the performance of the axial fan It may be used to generate a preliminary fan design before moving rapidly to a full 3D geometry model and CFD analysis Drag the Vista AFD component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Vista AFD component system is comprised of three cells a Meanline cell a Design cell and an Analysis cell Double click the Meanline cell to open the cell properties where you can specify the solution parameters generate a solution and view the results of a meanline analysis If the results of the meanline calculation are satisfactory the design throughflow calculation may then be performed by using the Design cell Optionally before creating a BladeGen or BladeEditor model an analysis calculation may be performed by using the Analysis cell This uses a similar throughflow method to the design calculation but simply analyses the design created in the previous step rather than adjusting the geometry A significant dif ference between the design and analysis results indicates a potentially flawed design For more information about Vista AFD see Vista AFD help Vista CCD and Vista CCD with CCM Vista CCD is a program for the preliminary design of centrifugal compressors It can be used in an iter ative fashion to create a 1D design The resulting geometry can be passed to BladeGen
74. gt File Management Tab documentation in the Operations Guide for the Mechanical APDL application In addition to the above Mechanical APDL application options you can also specify the GPU Accelerator option The GPU Accelerator option provides access to the Graphics Processing Unit GPU acceleration capability offered in the Project Schematic and inside Mechanical APDL Three options are available None NVIDIA and Intel By default None is selected If NVIDIA or Intel is selected specify the Number of GPU s per Machine in the row below By default this number is set to 1 Choosing this option from Options gt Mechanical APDL will apply the setting to all newly added systems in the Project Schematic You can override these settings by changing the GPU Accelerator selection on individual systems by doing a right mouse click on Analysis and editing the properties CFX Specify the following options for the CFX application Set the default initialization option for the solution cell The option Update from Current Solution Data if possible the default causes CFX Solver to use the previous solution if this exists as its initial conditions If there is no previous solution run CFX Solver will use either an upstream Solution cell the Initial Values definitions on the Define Run dialog of CFX Solver Manager or the initial conditions from the current state of the Setup cell The option Update from Initial Conditions causes CFX Solver Manag
75. in the DesignModeler section of the help You can connect other systems to a Geometry system by using the Transfer Data From New or Transfer Data To New context menu options You can transfer data from the following types of systems BladeGen Connects the Blade Design cell to the Geometry cell Finite Element Model Connects the Model cell to the Geometry cell You can transfer data to the following types of systems Mechanical APDL Connects the Geometry cell to the Analysis cell Transfer connection is via an anf file TurboGrid Connects the Geometry cell to the Turbo Mesh cell Vista TF Connects the Geometry cell to the Setup cell Transfer connection is via a geo file For more information on the geometry capabilities in ANSYS Workbench refer to Project Schematic Operations in the DesignModeler User s Guide ANSYS ICEM CFD ANSYS ICEM CFD extends ANSYS meshing capabilities with robust and varied geometry import the ability to efficiently mesh large or complex models with extended meshing controls advanced interact ive blocking tools for structured or unstructured mesh generation extended mesh diagnostics advanced interactive mesh editing and output to a wide variety of solver formats including CFD FEA and neutral formats ANSYS ICEM CFD can generate mesh from a range of sources including direct CAD third party formats such as IGES or ACIS faceted data scan data or even combinations of CAD facets and mesh It
76. is controlled generally rather than per variable as for spider charts for example the Style display properties will appear when you edit the chart properties Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 83 Working in ANSYS Workbench Smoothed Edges renders lines surfaces with anti aliasing set on such that the line surface appears to be smooth Line Style choose type of line used for plot Symbol Style choose type of symbol displayed in plot Fill Style choose the fill style for the objects in the plot that use it Line Colors sets the color sequence for multiple lines displayed on the chart Fill Colors sets the color sequence for sequential symbols or gradient used for plot display Number of Color bands when set to 0 the gradient will be a smooth graduation between values rather than banded where a single color is shown for a range of values Relative Bar Width sets the width of a bar as a proportion of available space 0 1 determined by the maximum size bar that can be displayed without overlapping any adjacent bars of the same variable if other variables appear between bars of this variable making the bar wider may overlap those inter vening variables Relative Bar Offset sets the start position of a bar proportional to the minimum point where the bar could be placed to the maximum point wh
77. jobs submitted to RSM It is provided only as a diagnostic tool for troubleshooting Design Points Control periodic restarts of the Mechanical application when running in batch mode During a design point update periodically restart the Mechanical application Directs the Mechanical application to automatically restart after the specified number of design points when running in batch mode Default Enabled and set to restart after each one design point Each restart resets the Mechanical application and slightly lengthens the processing time but can improve overall system performance memory and CPU when the generation steps of each design point geometry mesh solve post processing are long In such cases specify a low number minimum is 1 of design points before restarts Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 25 Configuring ANSYS Workbench In cases where the generation steps for each design point are short reduce processing time by in creasing the number of design points before restarts or prevent restarts completely by disabling this preference On Demand When the Solution cell for a Mechanical system is in the pending state during a batch run the right click menu has a Release License option This closes the Mechanical application but does not interfere with the completion of the run Default Alw
78. laws warranties disclaimers limitations of liability and remedies and other provisions The software products and documentation may be used disclosed transferred or copied only in accordance with the terms and conditions of that software license agreement ANSYS Inc is certified to ISO 9001 2008 U S Government Rights For U S Government users except as specifically granted by the ANSYS Inc software license agreement the use duplication or disclosure by the United States Government is subject to restrictions stated in the ANSYS Inc software license agreement and FAR 12 212 for non DOD licenses Third Party Software See the legal information in the product help files for the complete Legal Notice for ANSYS proprietary software and third party software If you are unable to access the Legal Notice please contact ANSYS Inc Published in the U S A Table of Contents OVENVICW E EE E E E E E E ES 1 Int racting with Project ODjectS elenen ass eeinetan aitei iilii e ai t a S eiai ak 1 W rkbench Tabs and Vie WS imionssisie inisenisi ei e iea E eE Ea E EE SEa 2 The Proj ect Tab nirecord riisin iieiea iii i i eiiiai iii aiian 4 TheTo lboxin the Pr ject TaD s cicisssnicinnarescusensynte teach deneedymnasnailtycallya TEER O EE 4 The PROJCCLS CHEM AALS sirit doiez enna eae ie R AREA a E E Rea AERO EEEE E aS 5 Systems and Cells in the Project Schematic cccessssscccceeceeseeseeeeeececeeseeeesnaeeceeceseesecsen
79. menu options The following Show Me Animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 36 Naming and Renaming Systems A Uervvced Project Workbench Pie View Tools Umts Extensions Help adal H Proet 2 Custom GUI gh inert Se hecomnoct Refresh Project Update Project 7 ox ESE os ox E Anaysis Systans Design ssessmot Hectic v A Xi 6 toler vant E Auid Row Brow Molding Polyfow 2 woneeronas V 4 21 tngneerngQeta ra mesa Bumn Pa ome 2 fluid Flow fivent 4 Meee Pa 4 Modd uae amp Fle Row nalyfiow 5 sexe Pa 05 G sen Pa E MermonicResporee Q soio C 6 Solunon Pua Hydrodynamic Diffreetion 7 Rests F 7 made 7 E trdrodynamie Time Resporse ts IC Engine Static Structural Modal Linear Suckling E Magretostane GD ojal w gt VARR E Random vibraton G Respeesespeanm E Rigid Dynarice E Zanc structural Batic SAructural Simce CB Sevdy stere Thermal GL Thermal Bectne throughflow Gh Transient Rectueal GA Transient Thermal a Componert Systens Custon
80. mode by right clicking the Solution cell and selecting Switch Active Solution to Background Run in Background allows you to run the solution in the background on the local machine This option is appropriate for solutions that fit within the resources of your workstation but will take longer to execute When a solution runs in the background the cell enters the Pending state and you can interact with the project to exit ANSYS Workbench or work with other parts of the project If you make changes to the project that are upstream of the updating cell then the cell will not be in an up to date state when the solution completes Note If you choose the Run in Background option for multiple solution components or for one solution component with multiple design points your project and design point updates will run multiple instances of the solver at the same time If you are using the Share single license between applications when possible option in the license preferences only one of the solver runs will succeed The others will fail because they cannot access the single license There are two workarounds for this problem Change the license preference to be Use a separate license for each application This preference will allocate one license for each running solver Instead of using the Run in Background option use the Submit to Remote Solve Manager option and select the localhost as the Solve Manager and use the Local queue RSM
81. multi select the desired files In the Table view sort the table by Column to efficiently order the file data For example if you have four data fields and the first three specify the X Y Z locations sorting by column will place the remaining data field entries together at the bottom of the column Select all the rows for which you want to change data i Select the first row to be changed by clicking on the row number which is in the table boundary ii Press and hold Shift key iii Select the last row to be changed by clicking on the row number iv Right click anywhere over the selected cells choose Set Data Type To and set the desired data type Repeat as required to set the data units via Set Unit To Tip If Set Data Type To or Set Unit To are not available ensure that your mouse cursor is over the body of the table not on the table boundary 166 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Table of File Multiple Files Applies to selected Files gt x Coordinate Component Systems Not Used Not Used al B Not Used a Not Used Ea i Coordinate m File1 Not Used f File2 2 Coordinate m Not Used gt z is E CE D Paste Update the External Data System Not Used x Coordinate Y Coordin
82. must have a single open repository connection multiple repository connections are not supported For more information on opening a connection see Creating a Repository Connection p 119 In this example we ll use the Geometry cell of a standalone Geometry system to import a data file into the project Importing the Repository File to a Project To import an EKM repository file into your Workbench project 1 In the Project Schematic right click the Geometry cell and select Import Geometry gt Browse from Repository T P aa 1 RULE 2 Geomots _ 2 m New Geometry Geom Import Geometry gt G Browse a Duplicate a Browse from Repository Transfer Data From New gt Transfer Data To New gt Update Refresh Reset AJ Rename Properties Add Note 2 In the Open from Repository dialog select the desired file and click the Open button Verifying the Repository File Import You can verify that the file was successfully imported to your project by checking the project Files view The repository file can be distinguished from local files by the EKM icon and the repository path in the Location column Although the Files view shows only the repository location a copy of the imported file is saved and stored locally so you can continue working on the project without having a connection to the repository Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential inf
83. only be pulled during the launch of the application and cannot be added on demand if the application is already open For example the Multi Body Dynamics analysis is only supported as an add on license so another primary configured task license will be needed to start the Mechanical application for a Transient Structural Rigid dynamics analysis An add on license will be used whenever the need arises even if the Mechanical application is opened However the ANSYS Explicit STR products like AUTODYN 2D AUTODYN 3D and ANSYS Ex plicit STR are of a dual nature and are supported both as primary configured tasks and as add ons The dual nature of explicit products enables the analysis of the mixed implicit and explicit system using a single Mechanical editor Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 31 32 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab In the Project tab you will take systems from the Toolbox and add them to the Project Schematic Systems are added from left to right and from top to bottom All data transfer occurs from left also called upstream to right also called downstream you cannot transfer data from right to left Therefore when placing o
84. or drag an analysis system onto the Project Schematic it appears in the Project Schematic as a system Components for that analysis type s system are listed as individual cells For example a typical structural analysis might have the following components cells e Engineering Data p 252 Geometry p 253 e Model Mesh p 253 Setup p 254 Solution p 254 e Results p 255 Right click on each cell to see a menu of actions that are available for that cell Selecting an action may launch a separate application if appropriate When you ve completed the necessary actions in that ap plication you can solve in the application or return to the Project Schematic to Update the project and continue Updating a project allows other systems or other cells within the same system to acquire the newest information ANSYS Workbench provides templates for some of the commonly used coupled analyses such as one way FSI analyses pre stress modal thermal stress random vibration and response spectrum Select these templates from the Custom Systems area of the Toolbox You can also import databases from previous releases See Importing Legacy Databases p 78 for in structions and restrictions on importing legacy databases Design Assessment The Design Assessment analysis system provides the capability of performing a solution combination for static and transient structural analyses and then performing post processing through a customi
85. permissions Refresh Control Status Synchronize local project status with repository project status Other Manage Repository Project menu options will then be become enabled or remain disabled according to the project status and your permissions Access Control Status View the current control status of the project Selecting this option performs a refresh of the menu so that it shows the current status of the project in terms of exclusive control version control and checkout availability Alert Setting Specify alert settings for the project Selecting this option launches the Alert Settings dialog which enables you to specify that you will be notified by email when certain events occur i e when the project is modified downloaded checked in checked out or when its lifecycle state is changed Get Exclusive Control Available concurrently with the Add to Version Control option Selecting this option allows you to gain exclusive control of the project Release Exclusive Control Available only when you have exclusive control of the project Selecting this option releases the exclusive control Add to Version Control Remove from Version Control Can be available concurrently with the Get Ex clusive Control option When adding the project to version control you have the option of checking out the project which is necessary to send changes to the repository Check Out Undo Checkout To gain or release control over a project via the
86. point values from the Table of Design Points in the example above the following file will be generated Table of Design Points P1 WBB in 3 0 07874 ek 4 DP1 0 11811 0 19685 5 9055 Set Update Order by Row 5 DP2 0 19685 0 19685 0 7874 Show Update Order a Optimize Update Order i Export Data 10 1 2012 10 38 01 AM The parameters defined in the project are P1 WB_B mm P2 WB_D mm P3 WB_L mm P4 WB_P N P5 WB_E MPa P10 WB_SIG MPa P8 WB_DIS mm P9 WB_BUCK N Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 106 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points The following header line defines the name of the columns by refer ence to the parameters Name Pl P2 P3 P4 P5 P10 P8 P9 DP 0 2 5 100 1000 200000 12000 80 1028 91145833333 DP 1 3 5 150 L000 200000 z y DP 2 Bp BS 20 1000 200000 p For details on the file formatting see Extended CSV File Format in the Design Exploration User s Guide Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM As an alternative to updating design points locally you can choose to update your design points by submitting them to Remote Solve Manager RSM Important e If you are sending design point update jobs to a remote computing clust
87. pra Tunical Cell States EF Aqwa E CAD Integration search in page SSSS S S E CFD Post gt Fel CFX z I Troubleshooting This section lists problems and error messages that you may encounter while running ANSYS Workbench After each situation description or error message is the user action required to correct the problem This section does not include troubleshooting for data integrated applications For troubleshooting in formation for data integrated applications please see the help for the specific application For additional troubleshooting information on native applications please see the following DesignXplorer Troubleshooting DesignModeler Frequently Asked Questions You can find additional FAQs on the Product Documentation section of the ANSYS Customer Portal at https www1 ansys com customer Problem Situations During setup if you encounter any errors containing the text Ox8000FFFF you will need to install the required installation prerequisites Run the installation launcher setup exe and choose Install Re quired Prerequisites CAD System Plug In Menus Do Not Appear for NX or Creo Parametric ANSYS Workbench on Windows platforms will append its information to an existing customization file for NX and or Creo Parametric If no customization file exists ANSYS Workbench will create a file For NX ANSYS Workbench looks for the custom_dirs dat file in the directory specified via the UGIICUSTOM_DIRECT
88. project only the ranges matching the prefix defined by the Named Range Key property in the Properties view of the Setup object are made visible in ANSYS Workbench Note By default no filtering prefix is defined at either the Workbench or the project level You set a filter by either of the following methods Set a default prefix that will be used for all new projects see Microsoft Office Excel Options Set a prefix at the project level by entering it in the Named Range Key property in the Properties view of the Microsoft Office Excel Setup object To name a range in Excel open the file in the Microsoft Office Excel application select a cell right click and select the Name a Range menu entry enter the name and validate Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 232 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems gt w 1 2 3 4 poser Caibi 12 Aa S 9 Ji 5 6 Bl i o A B28 Ee Thickness 2mm 1 CoFfip 8 Radius 120 amp cut 3 Deformatior 0 224 da Copy 10 Stress 70 6 B Paste 11 Mass 9850000 Paste Special 12 Insert j Delete 14 Clear Contents 15 j 16 Filter gt 17 Sort gt 18 WD insert Comment 19 AP Format Celis 20 Pick From Drop down List 21 9 Hyperlink You can review and modify all the defined names in the Excel application using Formulas gt Name ula F
89. repository Launching EKM with a Web Browser To simplify access to advanced EKM functionality you can select File gt Launch EKM Web Client from ANSYS Workbench to open the EKM Web Client in your default browser If you have more than one connection defined you will first be prompted for which connection you want to open From here you can access any EKM functionality as described in the ANSYS EKM User s Guide Working with Existing Repository Connections It is possible to create multiple connections to the EKM repository using the method described in Cre ating a Repository Connection p 119 Connections that you have created are retained and display in a connections list on various EKM dialogs accessed via the File menu the Save to Repository Open Project from Repository and the Register Session with Repository dialogs If there is an open con nection it shows a Status of Opened in the connection list Opening a Connection If you want to open a connection 1 Right click on the connection you want to open 2 Select Open Connection from the context menu The opened connection will show a Status of Opened in the connections list Only once con nection can be opened at one time so the previously opened connection will be closed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 120 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Registering an ANSYS Workbench Se
90. reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points If design points are being updated on remote resources using the ANSYS Remote Solve Manager RSM then the Compute Servers must be accessing the same license server as the source project Do not use the ANSWAIT environment variable when reserving licenses Reserved licensing can be disabled by your corporate license administrator You will be warned when you try to use this feature if it has been disabled Special Cases You might need to reserve a Geometry license even when the Geometry cell is not parameterized and is up to date if either of the following situations is true If the project contains CAD geometry or any other geometry that is not managed by the Geometry cell but rather by a downstream Model or Mesh cell and the geometry is actually parameterized via the Model or Mesh cell If an Engineering Data cell is parameterized and shares a model or mesh downstream with an unpara meterized Geometry cell If you are using reserved Mechanical APDL licenses with RSM on Linux machines AND you have the ANSYS150_PRODUCT environment variable set in a global login startup script that is used by all users on a machine you may see update failures caused by license checkout errors You should remove the ANSYS150_PRODUCT environment variable from any global login startup scripts Note that if th
91. retrieve changes from the EKM repository at any time To do so 1 In ANSYS Workbench select File gt Manage Repository Project gt Refresh Control Status This synchron izes the status of your local project with the status of the repository version 2 Select File gt Get Changes from Repository in ANSYS Workbench 3 If there are changes to the repository version of the project the Get Changes from Repository dialog displays and lets you know that getting changes will overwrite your local copy Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 128 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository 4 By default the Create backup of local project check box is selected If you leave it selected a backup copy called lt projectname gt _backup wbpj will be created in the same local directory as the original project E AN Get Changes from Repository lt i The copy of this project in the EKM repository Repository EKM_LinearBucking wbpz has recent changes If you get changes your local copy will be lost MV Create backup of local project Managing EKM Repository Project Changes When you have a project opened from the repository the File gt Manage Repository Project menu includes the following options Note that certain options may be disabled according the project status and your
92. running in the background and the Progress view displays a project Status of Waiting for background task In order for RSM jobs to continue to run after you exit the project the project must be saved at least once after the design point update job was initiated If you attempt to exit a project while a design point update job is still running the following scenarios will cause a dialog to display allowing you to specify whether you want to save the project before ex iting e You have never saved the project at any time after the same design point update job was initiated You have saved the project at least once after the same design point update was initiated but design point results have been retrieved since your last Save In either of these cases if you do not save the project before exiting All design point results retrieved since the last Save operation will be lost If the project has been saved at least once since the update job was initiated however the results can be retrieved again when the project is reopened If the project has never been saved after the update job was initiated all RSM jobs will be aborted and will show a Status of Cancelled and the Cancelled icon in the RSM List view the asterisk on the icon indicates that the job has also been released When you reopen the project it will be in the state of your last manual save If the project has been saved at least once after the update job was
93. s file management system stores several different files under a single project using directory trees to organize files relevant to each system and the applications used in the system When the project file lt fi 1ename gt wbp 4 is created ANSYS Workbench creates a project folder named lt filename gt _files where lt filename gt is a name you provide All files relevant to the project are saved within this folder The primary subdirectories within the project folder are dp0 dpall and user_files We strongly recommend that you use caution when directly modifying any of the content in any of the ANSYS Workbench project directories or subdirectories other than user_files You should work through the ANSYS Workbench GUI to manage your project as much as possible ANSYS Workbench may not recognize or be aware of any changes that you make directly in the file system such as adding or removing a file Project Directories The project directory structure includes the follow directories dp0 Subdirectory p 72 user_files Subdirectory p 72 dpall Subdirectory Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 71 Working in ANSYS Workbench dpO Subdirectory ANSYS Workbench designates the active project as design point 0 and creates a dp0 subdirectory that always corresponds to the active project files For more information on
94. so you can see it while working with project parameters To float a view select the Float context option or the thumbtack icon in the view header You can also tear the view from its dock by dragging the header with your mouse To redock a view select the Redock context option or the thumbtack icon in the view header When you redock a view it will return to its normal tab and may not be visible in the current tab You can also select the View gt Reset Workspace menu option which resets the views in the current tab to their default positions You can reset the views for one tab or for all the tabs gt To reset all the views in the current tab to their default position select View gt Reset Workspace gt To reset all the views in the project select View gt Reset Window Layout This resets the views in all tabs to their default positions and opens the Project tab Some views for example the Table Chart Outline and Properties views are defined per tab so that changes to a view are specific to that tab For example if you resize and float the Chart view in the Parameter Set tab and then switch to the Response Surface tab in a DesignXplorer system you ll find that the Chart view in the new tab will note be resized and floated The DX Chart view contains different data and so does not reflect the changes made to the Chart view elsewhere When you return to the Parameter Set tab you ll see that the Chart view t
95. the CAD In tegration section of the ANSYS Workbench help Model Mesh The Model cell in the Mechanical application analysis systems or the Mechanical Model component system is associated with the Model branch in the Mechanical application and affects the definition of the geometry coordinate systems connections and mesh branches of the model definition When linking two systems you cannot create a share between the Model cells of two established systems You can generate a second system that is linked at the Model cell of the first system but you cannot add a share after the second system has been created Likewise you cannot delete a link between the Model cells of two systems The Mesh cell in Fluid Flow analysis systems or the Mesh component system is used to create a mesh using the Meshing application It can also be used to import an existing mesh file Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 253 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Edit Launches the appropriate Model or Mesh application the Mechanical application Meshing and so on Setup Use the Setup cell to launch the appropriate application for that system You will define your loads boundary conditions and otherwise configure your analysis in the application The data from the ap plication will then be incorporated in the project in ANSYS Workbenc
96. the CFX Solver Manager or CFX Pre Solution cell are ignored for Design Point update via RSM All settings under the Parallel Environment tab Run mode All host information and partition weighting gt For Polyflow The following properties in the Polyflow Options accessed via Solution cell preferences are ignored for Design Point update via RSM e Number of Processes gt For Mechanical The following properties in the Advanced section of a Mechanical Solve Process Setting are ignored for Design Point update via RSM e Distributed Solution if possible Max number of utilized processors Note The Component Execution Mode and Max Number of Processes per Job settings are applied to all components participating in the update and cannot be overridden by component level settings To learn how to use component level settings please see the information in the step below Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 109 Working with Parameters and Design Points 6 7 8 For the Exported Design Point property select one of the following options Update parameters Only parameters are updated for exported design points Default value Update full project Full project is updated for exported design points At ANSYS 15 0 design point updates to RSM include new component override settings f
97. the original file is not seen by Workbench except if you delete and add the file again To modify the file copied in the Workbench project files right click on the Analysis component or the file node in the Outline view and select the Open file in Excel operation Once modifications are done save the file The state of the file in Workbench changes to Refresh Required which indicates that data are not synchronized anymore Results such as Design Points and Design Exploration systems in the Workbench project are outdated Refresh the project to synchronize all the pieces of the project If a change in the Excel file was not detected by Workbench it is possible to force a reload of the file right click on the file node and select Reload It is not necessary to close the workbook or the Excel application to proceed with Design Points or Design Exploration updates Interaction with the Excel application will be frozen during such operations but you will be able to see the performed calculations Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 235 ANSYS Workbench Systems Limitations The Excel feature in ANSYS Workbench requires Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or 2010 The Excel feature is only available on Windows systems Troubleshooting You are requested to install the Multilingual User Interface Pack of Microsoft Office for y
98. the panel Table 14 Slack values Min X 0 005 m Max X 0 005 m Min Y 0 0016 m MaxY 0m Min Z 0 001 m Max Z 0 005 m Specify the overall mesh controls see the Mesh control panel below for input values Model gt Generate mesh Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 217 ANSYS Workbench Systems Mesh control Num elements notloaded Num nodes notloaded Settings Display Quality E Load E Generate i Terminate Mesh type Mesher HD gt Mesh units mm gt Max element size gt Minimum gap VV x 70 x 1e 3 mY vy 10 Y 0 00016 m gt vz 30 z Temy Global Local Multilevel Options Misc Mesh parameters Normal Min elements in gap Min elements on edge Max size ratio M No O grids F Allow stair stepped meshing M Mesh assemblies separately Set uniform mesh params Je Close Help Note Change units to mm Step 4 Physical and Numerical Settings 6 Problem setup gt z Basic parameters Click on Basic parameters under Problem setup in the model tree Under General setup make sure that both flow and the temperature fields are switched on In addition select Turbulent for the Flow regime and turn Radiation Off Click Accept to close the panel Solution settings gt z Basic settings
99. the range is from 3 to 10 This setting affects only the numbers that are displayed It does not imply any numerical round off of internal calculations Number of Files in Recently Used Files List Sets the number of files that will appear in both the File menu and the context menus Recently Used Files lists The default is 4 files and the maximum number of files that you can display is 20 If the number specified here exceeds the number of recently used files that are available the list will show the available number This setting is applied to the current ANSYS Workbench session Beta Options Allows testing of unreleased ANSYS Workbench features If selected beta features will be displayed with the word beta in parenthesis The default is to not show beta features Beta features remain untested in this release and therefore are neither documented nor supported and may result in unpredict able behavior Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 15 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Text on Toolbars Allows you to turn the text labels on the toolbars on or off Labels are on by default This option applies to the ANSYS Workbench interface the Mechanical application the Meshing application FE Modeler and DesignModeler only Connections are Bundled at Startup Shows connections between systems as a single link The label will
100. to create and or open geometry or mesh files The Mesh component system contains a Mesh system header and two cells You can create a Mesh component system using any of these methods Double click the Mesh system template in the Toolbox Drag and drop the Mesh system template onto the Project Schematic Drag and drop a meshdat or cmdb file from Windows Explorer onto the Project Schematic Choose File gt Import or click the Import button from ANSYS Workbench and select a file of type meshdat or cmdb Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 228 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Mesh Context Menu Options The Mesh component system contains a Mesh system header 1 Mesh Mesh system header context menu options include the following e Replace With gt Mechanical Model Refresh Update Duplicate Delete Rename Properties Standard actions as described in System Header Context Menu Options p 270 The Mesh component system contains two cells 1 Geometry Geometry cell context menu options include the following New Geometry Import Geometry Duplicate Transfer Data From New Transfer Data To New Update Refresh Reset Rename Prop erties For details see Geometry p 253 Mesh Model cell context menu items include the following Edit Opens the Meshing application and loads an existing geometry mesh
101. to rotate the model about its origin in the XY YZ or ZX plane If you specify any copies the rotation will be applied relative to the previous copy or source mesh in the case of the first copy Note These transformations are applied in the following order 1 2 Rotation about the Y Axis Rotation about the X Axis Rotation about the Z Axis Translations e Update property modifications Update Project and return to the Project tab Note You can modify any file in the Outline view by browsing to a new file using the browse option provided in the Location column You can also delete files that you have selected or multi selected by right clicking one of the files in the Outline view and then choosing Delete from the context menu The Setup cell of the External Model system can be linked to a Model cell of a Mechanical system Transferring Data to Mechanical The next step is to open your cdb files in Mechanical I To add a downstream Mechanical system Drag a valid analysis system from the Toolbox onto the project schematic e Establish a link from the External Model Setup cell to the Mechanical system Model cell to complete the connection which will delete the Geometry cell Multiple model cells in the Project Schematic can link to one analysis system See Assembling Mechanical Models in the ANSYS Mechanical User s Guide for more details Right click the Model cell and select Pro
102. to the number of partitions desired The LSF cluster automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring LSF clusters see Appendix C or Appendix Din the Remote Solve Manager documentation 1 Submitting Polyflow Jobs to RSM 1 Configure your remote solution settings via Remote Solve Manager See RSM Installation and Configur ation for more information 2 In ANSYS Workbench right click the Solution cell and select Properties Select the Solution Process settings that you want to use for this solution and update the project Note You can Abort an update by right clicking the Solution cell This option is available during foreground background and RSM updates Polyflow has the following limitations when used with Remote Solve Manager Reconnect will not work after moving a project to another machine Only one copy of a saved project that is in the pending state can reconnect successfully You must manually save a project after a reconnect The RSM Interrupt option performs an abort operation not an interrupt Parallel design point submissions to batch queue clusters will only run on the master node and with the number of cores allocated by the batch queue scheduler Polyflow jobs submitted via RSM are not supported on SGE clusters Submitting Fluent Jobs to RSM You can use this feature to queue multiple jobs to run on the local machine such as overnight or during other lo
103. used for all jobs For more information see Establishing User Li censing Preferences 1 Access project properties by right clicking in the white space of the Project Schematic and selecting the Properties content menu option Alternatively you can select the View gt Properties menu option when the Project Schematic is open 2 Under the Project Update category set the Update Option property to Submit to Remote Solve Manager Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 49 Working in ANSYS Workbench Properties of Project Schematic B Property Value Notes eNotes o Project Update Solve Manager Submit to Remote Solve Manager localhost Queue Pre RSM Foreground Update Component Execution Mode Local None Ojoj a Serial 3 Additional RSM related properties that are displayed Use these properties to specify your remote sub mission settings Solve Manager Specify the machine configured to manage the queues and compute servers to be used for the remote solution Any Solve Managers currently defined for RSM will appear in the drop down list Select an available Solve Manager or specify the name of another machine Queue Select from the queues already defined for RSM Pre RSM Foreground Update Select None to specify
104. will give you a tiny chart Using the Triad On three dimensional charts the triad appears in the lower left corner of the chart view showing the orientation of the three axes for the current view of the chart The x axis is red the y axis is green and the z axis is blue There is a light blue ball in the triad that indicates the orientation ISO z axis up position of the chart If you click on this ball it will set your chart view to be ISO z axis up fit to window If you move your cursor around the triad you will see a yellow arrow appear that shows the direction that corresponds to the position of your cursor x x y y z z If you click on the arrow it changes your chart view so that the chart axis indicated by the arrow is facing out There are several shortcut keys that can be used when you are viewing a 3D chart e f fits the chart to the window e x displays the x view fit to window e y displays the y view fit to window e z displays the z view fit to window e i displays the chart in the ISO z axis up position fit to window Saving a Chart You can save the chart that you are viewing as a graphic To do so right click on the background of the chart and select Save Image As In the dialog that appears you will see a small image of the chart and can select the Size resolution that will be used when saving the chart Click on the ellipsis Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains propr
105. without saving e archiving a project switching to the next design point during the execution of the Update All Design Points operation While the project system is performing one of these operations you cannot have project files open in other applications such as a text editor or have the directories open in Windows Explorer Doing so may cause these file management operations to fail You cannot move a project or any of its associated files to another machine while a background run is in progress File information for the background run is by necessity machine specific You cannot package or modify the background run while it is in progress You will also have errors if you move a project that has references to files outside of the project directory to a different machine or location By opening the project from a different machine or location those file references will no longer resolve unless the file is still available under the same absolute path Copied images exist in only one location on disk that is referenced and do not exist as physical copies If you delete an image that has been copied all pointers to the copies of that image will contain broken links ANSYS Workbench Files To view all files associated with a project choose View gt Files from the menu bar You will be able to see the name and type of file the ID of the cell the file is associated with the size of the file the location of the file and other informatio
106. you to select whether the parameter is controlled from within ICEM CFD or from within Workbench A P in the check box indicates that it has been selected as a Workbench Input parameter If the check box is empty you can control the input from within ICEM CFD Surface Mesh Setup Surface s eB Sa Maximum size f2 P Height Height ratio You can set the following input parameters in Workbench Global Mesh Size See Global Mesh Size in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Shell Meshing See Patch Dependent Options in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Volume Meshing See Robust Octree in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Prism Meshing See Global Prism Settings in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Surface Mesh Setup See Surface Mesh Setup in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Curve Mesh Setup See Curve Mesh Setup in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Edge Params See Edge Params in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 188 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems For Surface Mesh Setup Curve Mesh Setup and Edge Params you can set parameters either on all existing surfaces or curves and edges at once or for a single curve surface or edge Note If you create Workbench Input Parameters and want to step line by line or using a line range through a replay file you must use the
107. 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 162 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems E BE e O ExtermalData_files lt Open File s My Documents pr M y Com puter s ExternalData_results_file5 tst ExternalD ata_r a fanfics J If you have a list of fully qualified paths to the files you want you can copy the list from a text file or an Excel file and paste it into the Outline view s Data Source field To paste from a flat text editor such as Notepad 1 List the paths to the files in the editor Ensure that there are no trailing spaces in the lines 2 Select all the files and copy them Ctrl A then Ctrl C 3 In the Outline view click the asterisk The line becomes highlighted and the text Click here to add a file remains visible F Schematic 42 rnal Data Ci owasauee locaton ter Hater gt Bertin gt S wp P Untitled Notepad ernalData_f1 ternalData_r Pi rnalData_ rnalData_ rnalData_ uIts_ k rnalData_results_files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 163 ANSYS Workbench Systems 4 Press Ctrl V to add the files Outline of Schematic 42 External Data C ExternalData_Files ExternalData_results_file1 txt File2 C Ext
108. 1 Property Value Unit 2 Definition 4 Start Import At Line a S 6 Format String aa 8 Analytical Transformation 9 x Coordinate 10 Coordinate iz 11 2 Coordinate a 12 Rigid Transformation 13 Coordinate System Type Cartesian 14 Origin 0 15 Origin 16 Origin Z 17 Theta xY radian 18 Theta YZ radian 19 Theta Zx radian gt If you edit any field in the Properties view when multiple files are selected your change is applied to all files b If the X Y Z locations of the source points is common between all the files you can make use of the Master Designation By designating a Master file all other files will use that file s values for the X Y Z locations This leads to faster user interface set up as well as much faster mapping times as the mapping weight calculations need to be done only once and then are shared for all slave files Use the Table view which is populated from the Format String field in the Properties view to specify the Column data in the file Here again you can make use of multi selection of the files in order to fully populate the Table view You can span data from all selected files and use various right mouse button actions to effi ciently define the column data Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 165 ANSYS Workbench Systems In the Outline view
109. 3 Geometry 4 Model P 4 414 Model Py 5 Setup Pij 5 Setup ws 6 Solution E 2 2 4 X Delete s 2 7 Results a Properties a Static Structural Modal Delete Deletes the selected link Properties Displays detailed information about the link including the type of link the origination cell of the link and the destination cell Details are shown in the Properties view Note To properly update the state of a cell for a linked system either open the Mechanical applic ation or click the Update Project toolbar button Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 273 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 274 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Tutorials To access tutorials for ANSYS Workbench go to http www ansys com tutorials Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 275 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 276 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Glossary analysis system archive cell component system component update context menu custom system data integr
110. 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired The LSF cluster automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring LSF clusters see Appendix C or Appendix Din the Remote Solve Manager documentation Submitting Fluids Jobs to RSM See the following sections for more information Submitting CFX Jobs to RSM Submitting Polyflow Jobs to RSM Submitting Fluent Jobs to RSM Submitting Fluent Jobs to HPC via RSM Submitting Fluent Jobs to PBS via RSM Submitting Fluent Jobs to LSF via RSM Submitting CFX Jobs to RSM 1 Configure your remote solution settings via Remote Solve Manager See RSM Installation and Configur ation for more information 2 In ANSYS Workbench right click the Solution cell and select Properties Select the Solution Process settings that you want to use for this solution and update the project Note If you set Execution Mode to Parallel you can specify the number of processes that you want to use to create the results file You should specify a number that is less than or Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 60 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench equal to the number of cores available on the Compute Server and you should ensure that each process contains at least 100 000 nodes or
111. 6 0 224 3 oP1 20811 111 49 9 17 76E 05 0 10194 4 2 1 9021 113 92 9 3536E 06 0 25162 5 oP3 20514 118 2 9 71132E 06 0 15999 6 DP4 18522 121 41 9 9478E 06 0 38855 7 PS5 1 8324 109 52 8 99458E 06 0 32833 8 DP6 19 120 9 84E 06 0 314 9 oP7 2 17 120 2 x X Delete Design Point 4a Copy inputs to Current 4a Duplicate Design Point Update Selected Design Points Copy Design Points to d Note Selecting Update Project from the Toolbar or the Project Schematic context menu updates only the Current design point DPO and does not update any other design points Update All Design Points You can choose Update All Design Points from the Toolbar or the Project Schematic context menu This option will update all design points in the project Update All Design Points Update a Selected Set of Design Points You can choose to update a set of selected design points Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 103 Working with Parameters and Design Points 1 In the Table of Design Points in the Parameters tab hold the Ctrl key and left mouse click on each of the design points to be updated 2 Release the Ctrl key and then right click one of the selected design points 3 Select Update Selected Design Points from the context menu Settings specified via the Design Point Update Order settin
112. 8 Note The SpaceClaim Direct Modeler features are available only if you have SpaceClaim Direct Modeler installed and the ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler license available New Geometry or New DesignModeler Geometry New SpaceClaim Direct Modeler Geometry Launches DesignModeler or SpaceClaim Direct Modeler where you can build a new geometry Import Geometry Select Browse to open a dialog box that allows you to navigate to an existing geometry file or select a file from the list of recently viewed files Edit or Edit Geometry in DesignModeler Edit Geometry in SpaceClaim Direct Modeler After you have attached a geometry to your system by choosing either New Geometry or Import Geometry click Edit to open the model in DesignModeler or SpaceClaim Direct Modeler to modify it Replace Geometry Select Browse to open a dialog box that allows you to navigate to an existing geometry file or select a file from the list of recently viewed files to replace the currently specified file Update from CAD Generates an existing CAD geometry using the parameter values as defined in the CAD system Refresh Reads in all modified upstream data but does not regenerate the geometry Enabled when the Geometry cell is in the Refresh Required state Properties Displays a Properties view where you can select basic and advanced geometry properties For a detailed description of the options available from the Properties view see Geometry Preferences in
113. 8 naming systems 37 parameters and design points 93 project reports 86 Remote Solve Manager 49 replacing a system 48 using RSM 50 submitting Mechanical jobs 55 using RSM to submit Fluids jobs 60 Using ANSYS Workbench adding a system 135 using the command window journaling 71 Vv view all customize 246 View menu 262 views 1 245 262 parameters and design points 93 viewing a table of design poitns 250 viewing charts 81 viewing files 247 viewing messages 251 viewing progress 251 viewing properties 249 viewing the outline 248 Vista AFD analysis 238 Vista CCD analysis 238 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 285 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 286 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates
114. ANSYS Workbench creates backup files of projects that are currently active and in progress In the event of a crash ANSYS Workbench can use these backup files to restore your project to the last saved event As with any computer program it s important that you save your work frequently to minimize data loss in the event of a crash Do not move or otherwise alter the backup directory If a project save operation fails for example an application is busy and cannot execute the save you will be given the following options Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 75 Working in ANSYS Workbench e Revert to the last saved project e Make a copy of the last saved project before continuing with the partially saved project The project will be copied into a new location that you specify Exit Workbench and decide later Use this option if you wish to handle the save failure manually As a result the backup directory will NOT be cleared so that you can manually recover files from that directory later Continue with the partially saved project discarding the last saved project not recommended This option results in the backup directory being cleared Use this option with caution as it could result in corrupt project files Note This save failure behavior applies only to a Save operation and NOT to a Save As or fir
115. AS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 219 ANSYS Workbench Systems 1E0 1E 1 1E 2 1E 3 1E 4 1E 5 1E 6 1E 7 1E 20 Iterations 3 Done Lower pri E Terminate Print C Set range C Full range M xlog M Ylog M Symbols M Lines M xgrid M Y grid e Click Done in the Solution residuals window to close it Step 7 Examine the Results with CFD Post Note The postprocessing of results can be done within Icepak however you can examine results in CFD Post This section will describe how to transfer information to CFD Post and use its postprocessing options 1 After calculating a solution in Icepak a green check mark will be displayed in the Icepak Solution cell in the Project Schematic The green check mark indicates that all data is up to date Select Results under the Component Systems node in the Toolbox Drag the Results cell on top of the Icepak solution cell B3 to transfer the data Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 220 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems v 4 v B v E 2 Geometry e2 seup v a re results 1 Geometry 3 Solution v 1 Icepak Results 2 Double click the Results cell to launch CFD Post The model should appear in the displ
116. CK and BEAMST options are only available if ASAS is installed For more information on creating the attribute file see The Design Assessment XML Definition File in the ANSYS Mechanical User s Guide How to Set the Assessment Type Use of one of the two methods described below to set the assessment type for the system Setup Cell Right Mouse Button Menu Right click on the Setup cell of the system and select Assessment Type from the menu Here you can select either one of the pre defined types or import a user defined XML file If you select to import a user defined type you will be presented the option to import the file by either browsing to it or by selecting one that has been browsed to previously from the list if available To check which assessment type has been selected there is a check box next to the pre defined types on the menu that will display a check mark when they have been selected If no check mark is visible then a user defined type has been selected Setup Cell Properties Panel Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 137 ANSYS Workbench Systems Select View then Properties from the main menu This will display the Properties view in the workspace Now click on the Setup cell of the design assessment system and the Properties view will be updated to show the available options for the cell F
117. Coupling or Fluent system s interface For more information see System Coupling User s Guide or Fluent in Workbench User s Guide Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 250 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Views within Tabs Solution Information View The Solution Information view is available in the System Coupling or ANSYS Fluent system s interface For more information see System Coupling User s Guide or Fluent in Workbench User s Guide Than Persistent Views Some views are persistent across the all the tabs The Messages Progress and Sidebar Help views remain as you ve specified as you navigate between tabs For example if you choose to show the Pro gress view while in the Project tab it will remain visible as you move through other open tabs Messages View The Messages view displays any messages you have such as error and warning messages solver mes sages status messages and so on During any update cell system project design point multiple design point any messages that are generated will be displayed in the Messages view The Messages view will open automatically if an error message occurs during an update but in other situations you will need to open it manually B Analysis Systems 2 A Design Assessmet 1 Electric 2 Geometry va Explicit Dynamics 3 Mesh z Fluid Flow Blow 4 Setup 2 s Fluid
118. EKM server from within ANSYS Workbench try opening a connection manually to the server using a web browser 1 Open a web browser 2 In the address bar enter the full address to the EKM server Assuming the server is running on the default port of 8080 the full address will be http lt server_name gt 8080 ekm 3 If successful the EKM Web Client for that server will be launched and you will be prompted for your login credentials See Launching the EKM Web Client in the Engineering Knowledge Manager for more information Disable your Pop up Blocker in Web Browser If you cannot connect with a browser ensure the pop up blocker is disabled or allows pop ups from the EKM server Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 133 134 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Systems The systems available in the Project tab Toolbox are divided into the following categories Analysis Systems p 135 Complete systems with all the necessary component cells already defined and ready to be populated For example a Static Structural analysis system includes all the cells needed for the analysis Engineering Data through Results Component Systems p 149 Component building blo
119. Execution Control settings stored in the Solution cell an error message appears when you attempt to update the Solution cell The Using execution control from Setup Solution cell options enable you to decide how to resolve the conflict on a case by case basis Alternatively you can choose one of the Using execution control from Setup Solution cell always options The latter options change your Workbench Options for CFX To reset that choice go to Tools gt Options gt CFX and change the value of the Set the default execution control conflict option for the Solution cell field to one of Fluent Specify the following options for the Fluent application General Options are applicable to all new and pre existing projects Launcher Options are the default value for any new Fluent based system that you create Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 23 Configuring ANSYS Workbench General Options These options apply to all Fluent based systems in the Workbench project regardless of whether the system was created before or after the option is enabled Note that these options are not saved with the project and the settings are always applied to the currently loaded project Show Warning on Editing Setup if Solution Has Current or Initial Data Allows you to determine whether a warning message should appear when solution
120. File gt Manage Repository Project menu 1 2 Load the project into ANSYS Workbench from the repository Select File gt Manage Repository Project gt Refresh Control Status to synchronize your local project settings with the project settings in the repository version of the project Selecting this option refreshes the Workbench view of the repository which may change the status of the exclusive control version Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 129 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM control and check out settings depending on whether there are other users accessing the repository and working with the project files A New_Modal_LinearBuckling Workbench al View Tools Units Extensions Help H New Ctrl N JO Open Ctri 0 i la Save Ctrl s al Save As w Save to Repository m Open from Repository Send Changes to Repository Get Changes from Re ta Refresh Control Status Manage Repository Project a Register Session with Repository Access Control Status Launch EKM Web Client Alert Setting id I t Get Exclusive Control B m Release Exdusive Control E Torei Add to Version Control Remove from Version Control Save to Teamcenter Check Out Scripting gt Undo Checkout 3 Select File gt Manage Repository Projec
121. Fluid Flow FLUEN E Fluid Flow POLYF Harmonic Respon Hydrodynamic Dif Hydrodynamic Tir Linear Buckling Magnetostatic f Modal D Modal Samcef f Random Vibration Response Spectru EA Rigid Dynamics x Ready ax Analysis Systems 3 Design Assessment Customizable Mechanical APDL 4 electric Electric Mechanical APDL Steady S 5 W Explicit Dynamics Structural AUTODYN Explicit Dy 6 me ioe pom Fluids POLYFLOW Any 7 ma a aa Fluids POLYFLOW Any 7 Fluid Flow CPX Fluids CFX 7 Fluid Flow FLUENT Fluids FLUENT Any 7 Fluid Flow POLYFLOW Fluids POLYFLOW Any i Harmonic Response Structural Mechanical APDL Harmonic e Hydrodynamic Diffraction Modal AQWA Hydrodyr V Hydrodynamic Time Response Transient AQWA Hydrodyr T Linear Buckling Structural Mechanical APDL Linear Buc gt gt Show Progress Show 0 Messages E Configuring Units in Workbench ANSYS Workbench provides the following functionality for unit systems a set of predefined unit systems that define most commonly used quantity units the ability to define custom unit systems based on the predefined unit systems e the ability to display the following project data in project unit system engineering data parameters charts e the ability to share the unit system between different users via
122. Import and Export options Note Unit settings in ANSYS Workbench are not passed to Fluid Flow analysis systems to CFX Fluent Results or TurboGrid systems or to FSI Fluid Flow custom systems To access the Unit Systems dialog box choose Units gt Unit Systems from the menu bar You will see the following Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Configuring Units in Workbench AT Systems 8 Cc D osm 7 SI kg m S K A N V OIOI 2 CES 3 Metric kg m s C A N V OROSII 3 Angle 4 Metric tonne mm s C mA N mV oilioig 4 Chemical Amount mol U S Customary 5 Current A 5 lbm in s F A bf V ojoi U S Engineering z lbm in s R A lbf V ojoj 7 Luminance cd 7 Metric g cm s C A dyne V O O 8 Mass kg 8 Metric kg mm s C mA N mV OIOIM 9 Solid Angle 9 Metric kg ym s C mMA UN V O O M 10 Temperature K SAN z 11 Time S Duplicate Delete Import Export x Close The following options are available from the Unit Systems dialog box a SSS i Sets unit system for active project Default E Sets default unit system This will be default unit system for every project Suppress Unsuppress Hides displays unit system menu item Only 15 unit systems
123. In the model tree go to Solution settings then to Basic settings and Advanced Settings menus and verify that the following values are set for each variable Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 218 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Basic settings No of iterations 100 Flow 0 001 Energy 1e 7 Advanced settings Pressure 0 3 Momentum 0 7 Step 5 Save the Model Select the File menu and click Save project Note The Save As panel will appear Specify the name ice_wb for your project and click Save Note You can click the save icon led in the File commands toolbar Step 6 Calculate a Solution Solve gt Run solution Select the Solve menu and click Run Solution to display the Solve panel Keep the default settings in the Solve panel Click Start solution to start the solver Note Icepak will begin to calculate a solution for the model and a separate window will open where the solver will print the numerical values of the residuals Icepak will also open the Solution residuals graphics display and control window where it will display the conver gence history for the calculation Note that the actual values of the residuals may differ slightly on different machines so your plot may not look exactly the same as the figure below Release 15 0 S
124. Load Options mA Load Option Last Results Only ma Em Solution Process Update Option Submit to Remote Solve Manager E 115 Solve Manager headnode hd C 16 Queue Local ha E 7 e ee 9 amp Used Licenses 10 Ea Download Progress Information Always Download ie Progress Download Interval 120 19 Execution Mode Parallel Len tuner of Processes eT Solve Process Setting Mechanical application only This setting is the solving configuration that you have defined in Mechanical Solve Manager This is the machine that is configured to manage the queues and compute servers to be used for the remote solution Any Solve Managers that you have currently defined for RSM will appear in the drop down list You can choose one of those Solve Managers or you can specify the name of another machine Queue You can select from the queues that you have already defined for RSM Download Progress Information Specifies that the solver monitor should periodically query RSM for output files in order to display progress where applicable Queries to RSM begin when you initiate an action to display the solution progress such as choosing the Display Monitors option in CFX This option available for Fluent and CFX systems is enabled by default CFX systems have the following options gt Always Download Progress Information causes queries to RSM to begin immediately This option is en
125. Management niishi suisaiiceriy svi a eena a ia Wiis aaiae aean shea eM aeiaai ai 71 Project Directories ren eoa seed tenaaa Veeken aSa EE KERA E VESE AET S EEES ERE AKSER ETES EEEE SERES Ea 71 ApPO Subdirectory csee anur a a a aa Daa aa eaa aa 72 s r files SUbdirectory a ea E aSa A OEE TA ee eee 72 dpall Subdirectory and Working with Design Points sssssssssessseseesssssesssssresssereessereessssresssssress 73 Example Projectie peosiero a Era EEE E EEEE E EEE EEE EE a EEE IREE 73 Working with Files and Projects eeesesesssessessessssseessssresssssressseressssttesssstessssteessseressseteessseessssreesssere 74 M pOrting Files anirno a AEAEE vals ER EE KETE O EAA EES NEE EEA 74 Archiving Projects essri anieri an iien a sas cadet a a Eaa a a eE A A a e EA 75 Project RECOVERY iesene ireosissororiieseeriineeies nis iNo ENO ENE SEET EEEO E IESEAN TEE ENDENE ONOS as EENS ESS 75 Project LOCKING neriesi eieae eaa a E E EE E A REEE OaE OE SE oan 76 Notes About Project File Management c svisesseresavnacessavnnadsanessavvesvsusacdssvasveseveesseasodeavbneveeenataodavwanes 76 ANSYS Workbench IGS rsat anean a he aE E E AR E E E E AAT EE 77 Importing Leg cy Databases casi vansracansvcpsubnguet inia eE a E aa i aE E E Naai 78 Working with the Chart View eseessssseesseseesssseessssseessssressseeessssressssetessseterssseessssteesssetesssereeessseessssrees 81 Chart Ypes enaren eaaa ir EE IAE ARAETA REE EAEE EA Ai a ea EAN EEE EET 81 Setting C
126. NSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 87 Working in ANSYS Workbench s sq Engineering data or 6 rd geometry data is unavailable Right mouse click the Engineering Data cell and select Edit or right mouse click the Geometry cell and select New Geometry or Import Geometry from the context menu Systems and Cells ANSYS Workbench Sidebar Help Context sensitive help is available at any time by clicking F1 The Sidebar Help view will be displayed on the right side of the screen The content of this help panel is determined by the portion of the interface that has focus i e where the mouse was last clicked If no particular area has focus you will see a general GUI overview topic If the Project Schematic has focus but no systems are defined you will see a Getting Started topic If the Project Schematic has focus and one or more systems have been defined you will see links to those specific system types as well as links to general topics You can also access the Sidebar Help view by choosing Help gt Show Sidebar Help from the menu bar ax z Choose from the A B following general 1 1 topics 2 Geometry LE oe 2 Engineering Data v 3 Mesh 3 Geometry DA Building a System 4 Setup Pa 4 Model Ta Engineering Data 5 G Solution 2 4 5 Setup Pu Geometry 6 Results 6 Solution Pu Model Mesh Fluid Flow CFX 7 Results Pa Setup Static Structural Solution Tuto
127. NSYS CFX analysis system by dragging the system from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the system in the Toolbox Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry Alternatively you can create the geometry in DesignModeler by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing New Geometry Create a mesh by right clicking on the Mesh cell and choosing Edit Specify the ANSYS CFX physics definitions in CFX Pre by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Edit Alternatively you can import a previously saved case file by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Import Case gt Browse Right click on the Solution cell and choose Update to start the solver Alternatively right click on the Solution cell and select Edit set the solver execution controls in CFX Solver Manager and start the solver You can also import an existing CFX Solver Results file by right clicking on the Solution cell and choosing Import Solution gt Browse Analyze the results of the calculations in CFD Post by right clicking on the Results cell and choosing Edit For detailed information on working with ANSYS CFX see ANSYS CFX in ANSYS Workbench in the CFX Introduction The Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX analysis system is also used as part of the FSI Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX gt Static Structural custom system Note If you import a CFX Solver Input File into a CFX Setup cell and e the r
128. ORY_FILE environment variable For Creo Parametric ANSYS Workbench looks for the config pro file in the SHOMEDRIVE S SHOMEPATHS directory In addition during setup of the Creo Parametric Geometry In terface ANSYS Workbench will also append its information to the config pro file located in the Creo Parametric installation path under the text directory e g Proewildfire2 text config pro If ANSYS Workbench encounters a read only file it will not be able to write the necessary information to the file In this case you will need to revise the permissions on the file and manually add the appro Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 89 Working in ANSYS Workbench priate ANSYS Workbench specific information in order for the ANSYS menu to appear in NX or Creo Parametric Script Errors When Running ANSYS Workbench If you encounter script errors such as Error Unable to create object microsoft XMLDOM you may need to install the latest version of Microsoft s MSXML Please visit Microsoft s web site at http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 993cObcf 3bcf 4009 be21 27e85e1857b1 amp DisplayLang en for more information on downloading and installing MSXML Charts Do Not Appear If you do not see the appropriate charts created after a design point run or other updates such as response surface updates r
129. Osta V 4 EJ Response Spectrum 3 Geometry 4 3 Geometry 4 EJ Thermal Stress 4 mode Ps 4 More Z E Design Exploration 5 seww Ya 5 B seww 7 p ea onnaa tometer souon S 4 6 solution Fi 7 Results Ya 7 Results Static Structural Copy of Static Structural f L T View Al Customize s Ready Show Progress 0 Show 0 Messages i Design Exploration DesignXplorer provides you with the ability to perform in depth Design Exploration studies DesignXplorer is a powerful approach for designing and understanding the analysis response of parts and assemblies It uses a deterministic method based on Design of Experiments DOE and various optimization methods with parameters as its fundamental components These parameters can come from any supported system DesignModeler and various CAD systems Responses can be studied quantified and graphed Using a Goal Driven Optimization method the deterministic method can obtain a multiplicity of design points You can explore the calculated Response Surface and generate design points directly from the surface or transfer data from other analysis systems or components to a Direct Optimization system Design Exploration systems available with ANSYS Workbench include the following These systems will be available only if you have installed the ANSYS DesignXplorer product and have an appropriate license e Direct Optimization Parameters Correlation e Respon
130. PDL system Doing so will cause the Mechanical system to provide two different and possibly conflicting input files to the Mechanical APDL system Important The Mechanical APDL system consumes all input data without unit system knowledge You must assure that all input data being used by the Mechanical APDL system is in a consistent unit system Please see Solving Units for more information on unit system When transferring data from a Mechanical APDL system to another Mechanical APDL system you can transfer four types of data results transfers all results files including rst rfl rth etc e database transfers all database files db solver transfers all files in the system folder e CDB transfers cdb files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 224 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems You can also transfer data to a new Finite Element Model system which uses the cab file s These files are simply copied to the new system if they exist ANSYS Workbench does not generate the files Before transferring data to a new system be sure that you have an input file that generates the necessary files from the existing Mechanical APDL system When you transfer data to or from another system right mouse click the link connecting the systems and select Properties The Properties window will open detailing the
131. Parameters tab for a given system includes all of the parameters defined for that system Each of these tabs has an Outline view and a Properties view which allow you to view and or work with your parameters Outline View The Outline view lists the parameters grouping them into Input Parameters parameters that affect the definition of the data model and Output Parameters analysis results that are quantities of interest for the design Note In a Parameters tab the title in the Outline view header incorporates the ID of the corres ponding Parameters cell to indicate the source of the parameters In the Parameter Set tab the title is Outline of All Parameters For each parameter the Outline view shows an ID name current value and unit system You can edit most of these properties the exceptions are the units for parameters with quantity values and the parameter ID When you select a parameter details for that parameter are shown in the Properties view Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 94 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates The Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab You can also add new parameters in the Outline view For parameters created in this way you can assign a value but not an expression To add an expression select the newly created parameter and add the expression and quantity name in the Properties view Note
132. Parameters and Design Points 208 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Figure 3 Icepak System with Parameters Solution F 4 3 gt 4 52 Parameters Icepak pd Parameter Set Note A design point is a set of input parameter values and corresponding output parameter values associated with an individual parameterized project definition Design points can be created within the Parameters tab and allow you to perform what if studies For information on design points refer to Design Points To create a new design point enter the input parameter values that you want to use for that design point in the Table of Design Points in the row with an asterisk in the first column You can create several design points Once you have finished specifying design points you can right click the row for one design point and select the Update Selected Design Point option from the context menu to compute the output parameters for that design point Alternatively you can select Update All Design Points from the Toolbar to update all of your design points in sequence Important Only the data from the design point in the row labeled Current is saved with the project If you want to post process the results from a different design point in either ANSYS Icepak or ANSYS CFD
133. Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Up date p 49 Common Views Common views are ones that are included on multiple tabs but are configured per tab i e changes to the view on one tab are not reflected on other tabs of the same sort because the view contains different data on each tab The following common views are available Toolbox View Toolbox Customization View Files View Outline View Properties View Table View Chart View Scene View Solution Information View Toolbox View On the Project tab the Toolbox contains the different types of systems you can add to the Project Schematic Systems are divided into categories which can be expanded or collapsed to show or hide the systems available in that category You can select systems from the following system categories Analysis Systems p 135 Component Systems p 149 Custom Systems p 240 Design Exploration p 242 External Connection Systems p 243 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 246 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Views within Tabs x E Analysis Systems Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow Fluid Flow CFX Fluid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow Polyflow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffradion a Hydrodynamic Time Response pad IC Engine Linear Buckling M
134. Quantities and Units The ANSYS Workbench expression parser supports standard math functions and operators as well as units for quantities Dimensional quantities are defined in units which are a combination of one or more separate units ANSYS Workbench expression and mathematical function evaluation is based on the Python 2 6 pro gramming language www python org and inherits some behavior as described here All Python numeric and function capabilities can be used For example Python provides support for octal base 8 and hexadecimal base 16 numbers To tell Python that a number should be treated as an octal numeric literal simply append a zero to the front Appending a zero and an x to the front of a number tells Python to treat the number as a hexadecimal numeric literal Do not start expressions with an operator To define a derived parameter P5 such that P5 P2 3 P3 set the expression to P2 3 P3 given that P2 and P3 are existing parameters Expressions that involve quantities must be dimensionally consistent The and operators require that the two operands have compatible units For example you cannot add an Area parameter to a Length parameter both units must be Length or both units must be Area The and operators do not have this limitation They allow one operand to be a quantity with a unit and the other operand to be a dimensionless factor Or they allow both operands to be quantities with units where the result i
135. Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the HPC cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired HPC automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring HPC clusters see Appendix Ein the Remote Solve Manager documentation Note PSSH is not supported on Microsoft Windows for this operation Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to PBS via RSM If you have a PBS queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 59 Working in ANSYS Workbench 2 Set the Queue to the PBS cluster 3 Set the Execution Mode to Parallel 4 Set the Number of Processes to the number of partitions desired PBS automatically controls where the partitions are solved For details on configuring PBS clusters see Appendix C in the Remote Solve Manager documentation Note PBS clusters on Windows are not supported Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to LSF via RSM If you have an LSF queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Pro cesses pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager 2 Set the Queue to the LSF cluster
136. Remote Solve Manager Indicates that the Remote Solve Manager RSM should be started when ANSYS Workbench is started Defaults to disabled so that Remote Solve Manager is not launched at startup If enabled RSM will be started when ANSYS Workbench is started but the RSM interface will not be visible On Windows an RSM icon will appear in the Windows System Tray For detailed information on running RSM please see the Remote Solve Manager User s Guide help Show Getting Started Dialog Displays the Getting Started dialog box on startup The default is to display the Getting Started dialog at startup Project Archive Project Archive Allows you to specify your preferences for archiving projects wbpz Compression Level Allows you to specify a file compression level for archiving projects to the wbpz format Defaults to 3 Possible values are 0 through 9 with O as no compression and 9 as maximum compression For more information on archiving see Archiving Projects p 75 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 14 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options Appearance Define the appearance of your workspace including background graphics colors and display defaults Graphics Style Controls the graphics style of the ANSYS Workbench DesignModeler Meshing and Mechanical applications Background Style Sets a sol
137. Set bar and the Properties view will refresh with the design point settings 3 In the Properties view specify the Design Point Update Process settings These settings will initially be populated based on your selections in Tools gt Options gt Solution Process See Solution Process p 19 for more information You can choose different settings here if the default settings are not appro priate For design points to be updated via RSM set Update Option to Submit to Remote Solve Manager and then specify an available Solve Manager and Queue 4 For the Job Submission property select one of the following options One Job for All Design Points All design points are submitted as a single job to RSM One Job for Each Design Point Each design point is submitted as a separate job to RSM simultan eous parallel updates Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 107 Working with Parameters and Design Points Specify Maximum Number of Jobs Design points are divided into groups and submitted in multiple jobs up to the specified maximum number of jobs You can look at the RSM List view to determine which design points are assigned to each job If you select this option the Maximum Number of Jobs property is enabled allowing you to specify the maximum number of jobs that can be created Note The Maximum Numb
138. Static Structural FSI Fluid Flow Fluent gt Static Structural e Pre Stress Modal Random Vibration e Response Spectrum Thermal Stress FSI Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX gt Static Structural This template enables you to perform analyses that couple the physics of Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX and Static Structural analyses with results provided one way from the former system to the latter When this template is used a Fluid Flow CFX analysis system and a Static Structural analysis system are automatically created The two systems share a single geometry and the fluid flow Solution cell provides data that are treated as an Imported Load in the static structural Setup cell Note that similar coupled systems may also be manually created between Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX analysis and any of the following analysis systems Transient Structural Steady State Thermal e Transient Thermal FSI Fluid Flow Fluent gt Static Structural This template creates two systems a Fluid Flow Fluent analysis system and a Static Structural analysis system The Geometry cells for the two systems share a single geometry and the Solution cell in the Fluid Flow Fluent system provides pressure load data to the Setup cell in the Static Structural system Pre Stress Modal This template creates two systems an ANSYS structural static system that transfers data into an ANSYS modal system The two systems share Engineering Data Geometry and Model cel
139. Systems a Design Explaration Y View AD Customize B Reedy E Show Progress Sow 0 Messages For more information see Creating and Linking a Second System p 43 Naming and Renaming Systems In general it is good practice to give each system a descriptive name that is meaningful for you and that indicates the details of the system ANSYS Workbench allows you specify a name for each system either initially when the system is added to your project or at any time afterward Naming Systems When a new system is added to the Project Schematic the default name of the system will be in focus highlighted as shown below v A 1 7 Static Structural 2 EngineeringData v 3 Geometry LF 4 Model Pa 5 Setup Ti 6 amp Solution Pi 7 Results Tj When the name is in focus it is editable and you can enter a new name for the system To accept the default name for the system the default name is usually the same as the system type click Enter or select any other action in the user interface In the example shown below we have entered the name My Structural Analysis and clicked Enter Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 37 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab v A 1 2 Engineering Data 3 Geometry 4 Model 4 a 5 Setup 6 amp Sol
140. Types of Cells The following common types of cells occur in many of the analysis and component systems available in ANSYS Workbench how you work with them is explained below Other cell types may be available in certain systems see the application specific documentation under Systems for these cell descriptions Engineering Data Geometry Model Mesh Setup Solution Results Engineering Data Use the Engineering Data cell with Mechanical systems or the Engineering Data component system to define or access material models for use in an analysis To define material data open the Engineering Data tab by either double clicking the Engineering Data cell or right clicking the cell and selecting Edit from the context menu For more information see Engineering Data Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 252 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Cells in Workbench Geometry Use the Geometry cell to import create edit or update the geometry model used for analysis Right click on the cell to access these functions via the context menu The right click options are context sensitive and change as the state of your geometry changes so not all of the geometry specific options are described here will be available at all times These options are in addition to the common options described in Common Context Menu Options p 265 and Transfer Context Menu Options p 26
141. Version O Individual servername 123 win company com B Default servername 123 win company com 5 Select the connection you want to register and click the Register button 6 Ifthe registration was successful the following dialog displays indicating the name of the EKM server en You have successfully registered this session with EKM at servername123 win company com A job with the current timestamp has been created under the folder My Jobs in the EKM Web UI 7 Click OK Now that the session has been registered you can use the EKM Web Client or EKM Mobile application to view and work with the registered session No other users will be able to access the job Since the registration is associated with the Workbench session rather than the project the registration is valid for the duration of the session as long as the session is active you can open existing or create new projects within the open session without needing to repeat the registration Once the session is closed you must register it again upon reopening For information on working with registered sessions see Working with Registered Workbench Projects in the ANSYS EKM User s Guide Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository When working with an EKM repository you must understand the relationship between your local working version of the project and the copy stored in the repository Even if a project has been stor
142. Workbench Replay Control item from the One Click menu to start the Workbench Replay Control dialog Setting Input Parameters To set input parameters in Workbench 1 Within ICEM CFD choose any of the input parameters listed above 2 Select the check box next to the parameter 3 Click the Yes button in the pop up dialog to confirm the selection A P in the check box indicates that the parameter has been created for Workbench Note You will not be able to edit the parameter within ICEM CFD unless you click the check box again and deselect the parameter 4 In Workbench double click on the project s Parameters cell 5 Edit the parameter values in the Outline of Schematic Parameters window 8a pF 4 Update Al Desy Ports gt iie r oeaan Po B c D A a c D Pwaratw Kare wis une i Name Pl Surfece Mesh Sete Macrae tre P2 Mm qualtyof Quality TRI_STETRA_4 Bpotsd S Omet 2 asam Surface Mesh Setup Maru sse 6 Click the Project tab to return to the Project Schematic window You can now update the project using the new parameter settings Setting the parameters for a single curve surface or edge 1 Within ICEM CFD open the Surface Mesh Setup Curve Mesh Setup or Edge Params parameters from the Tab menu 2 Click the Select button at the top of the Parameters window Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its
143. You can also drag systems from the toolbox or manually create links between systems When transferring data to a Mechanical APDL system from an other system you can transfer data from the following cell sources e Geometry transfers just the geometry in the form of an anf file This option is only supported for geometry that is represented as DesignModeler geometry Model Mesh cell if a meshing system transfers an input file containing only the mesh contact coordinate system and named selections data Setup Mechanical Systems transfers an input file containing all data necessary to solve the analysis in cluding geometry model loads materials etc Any supporting files needed to execute the input file will be transferred as well Examples include pre stress modal or random vibration Setup Finite Element Modeler Transfers input file containing any finite data recognized inside Finite Element Modeler such as mesh materials components constraints etc Solution Mechanical Systems transfers the database file db if it exists and result file only Note For Model Setup Mechanical Systems and Solution transfer cells if you solve within Mechanical you will still need to run an Update on the appropriate cell in the Mechanical system in order to the obtain the correct state on the schematic In most cases Model and Setup components from the same Mechanical system should not be linked to one Mechanical A
144. a Source view when you click away from that view the highlighting applied to those files disappears However the files remain active and any subsequent operations are applied affect the files Table 9 Properties View Definition Section Property Description Length Unit The unit system in which file is defined Source points are interpreted in this Length Unit Table 10 Properties View Rigid Transformation Section Property Description Number When set to zero default only the source mesh is transformed If you Of Cop specify a number of copies greater than zero these will be in addition to ies the source mesh For example if you import a cdb file with a single part and set Number Of Copies to 2 you will get 3 parts in Mechanical Trans This property is only available when Number Of Copies is set to 1 or form greater Select the checkbox if you want to apply the specified transforma Original tion to the source mesh Origin These properties allow you to translate the origin of the model along the X Y Z X Y or Z axis If you specify any copies the translation will be applied rel ative to the previous copy or source mesh in the case of the first copy Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 175 ANSYS Workbench Systems 4 Description These properties allow you
145. a Type values or Data Unit values where applicable at the same time Column data is ignored if the Data Type is set to Not Used When Coordinate System Type is set to Cartesian in the Properties view the Data Unit cell for the X Y and Z Coordinates will be read only in the Table of File view When Coordinate System Type is set to Cylindrical the Data Unit cell for the Y will have a combo box that can specify its Data Unit string either as Degrees or Radian You can change the data identifier from the default string for allowed data types The data identi fiers are appended to the file identifier specified in the Properties view so that you can pick the correct source data in the downstream Mechanical application A preview of the file is shown in the Preview view The first ten imported lines are shown When you multi select files the Preview view is disabled and the Table of File view displays data in columns that you can sort and filter from the down arrow beside each column heading The Setup cell of the External Data system can be linked to a Model cell or to a Setup cell of a Mechanical system except for Rigid Dynamics Systems Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 159 ANSYS Workbench Systems You can modify any file in the Outline view by browsing to a new file using the browse option provided in
146. a dads E a E E a E a a aeS a E 240 Desig Explorations ear EEE REET EE E EE E pollen EE A DE EEES 242 External Connection Systems ossssiernssorii niiin iisi iaei i iioi aaa ai esaea 243 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference cssccccccccsssesssnneecceeeeesessnnnaeeeeecceeseessnaseeeeecesesessnaaeeeeeeeceseeennaaeas 245 Tabs within Workbench eesis neereros trieciena a i e e Ran aa ae a ea e ra aei ia ea E aeai 245 Views Within Tabs serea ae eaeoe eE A AEE E EAEE E EE AEA AAE EA AEEA EO AE EAEE EO RAAE 245 Project Schematic VIEW sinr eieiiennn enin eie aaiae aK eSa EEEa ARNa ESEK oaa ea ienie 245 COMMON VIEWS narisee a EEA EEE E A VEEE EERE EE N EE T ENES 246 TOOIB OE VI EW arasina eaae thers EE EE oats E Ea E E EA A 246 Toolbox Customization VIEW esseeeeseessssssereeesssssserrreesssssseerereresssssereeeeessssssereeeessssseereeesesssseee 247 Files VIQW eo irea ai EAE EEEE O E E E E a E ar 247 Outline VIEW secrecion n a a E a a a e e a a ea a E aS 248 PrODETtIESNIEW S Ssns ennd eea iaa va cob oaie aaie aaa eaa A n aS Seaan aa E a aa AEON AE v4 dh a E aN 249 BEI EDAN RAE NEE E E E E A N A ET A 250 Chart VIEW nereta a ea Saad sot EE EE EEEN EEEE KE TE A 250 SCENE VIEW edi r TES CETE TEE N ATERT O T NEEE ERA AANEEN NEEN 250 Solution Information View ccsssscccccccesesessnseecccceeceseeessnaeeeeecceseeeesnneeeeeseceseeesenaeeeeeeeeseseees 251 Persistent VIEWS mnsine ionen e a SEE E esse E EEE EEEE EE EE eed ieds 251 Messages VICW eis m
147. a ds E a e E de dese teed a a a r a a a a a a 143 Linear Buckling and Linear Buckling Samcef ccccccccesssessstececeeeeeeeeesneeeceeeceeseessnaeeeeeeeeeeeeeea 144 Magnetostatie eisiea neea EE EE E N EEEE E getanee ce cealyducseabendeciayTes fesapenes cosbeeeceeaiends 144 Modal and Modal Same ccccccccssesccccssecccceeseccssueecsssseecsseuueecsssuececsseuueecsseueuecsseueesceseueesesees 145 Random Vibration ssie axa tonne deea a a E doh ewes Cray Dba ie ces chee dM ating NaH des a on S RS 145 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates v User s Guide RESPONSE SPECUFUMM ccsecra vats wwoabwerdoaa ca denweae desesbtaativeeas seed radahioueasvereonnaahavedaleiecdeedsudcrweasvecveaaathanteeeees 146 Rigid DYNAMICS 5 isdusasceacatiowarcsaeiravian cacesmanbraaeansaperuaesd ante aa ee a a aaa aR aoaaa 146 Static Structural and Static Structural Samcef eesesssssessesserssssersssscessssceessscresseteessscerssreresseerrsses 147 Steady State Thermal and Steady State Thermal Samcef ssceeessseeceessseeeeeeessaeeeeessaeeeseesnaeeees 147 Thermal Electric acne anenai ease es heaton seed ee ate Eae E Ea Eae este elas a EOE Ea E a aana 148 Th roughfloW nie nn a e A raa adit E RAN e ON ean a a is 148 Transient Structural and Transient Structural Samcef cccceccccssseecccceseccceeeeecccssseeessseueesss
148. a is present This data can include mesh input files solver files and so on Clear may alter the state of the current cell and cells downstream from the selected cell Reset Removes or erases both input and output data to the cell and sets the cell state back to default Any reference files are removed Reset may alter the state of cells downstream from the selected cell If you Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 266 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench have two systems that share cells reset is not available from the cells that are shared only from the source the cell that is being shared from Important For some systems these two context menu options result in specific behavior depending on the selected cell and in some cases specific system data such as existing links Refer to the following table for specific actions Cell Data Clear Generated Data Reset Mechanic al systems Clears the geometry source and rests geometry properties to defaults Deletes mesh input files and solver files Cleans results Closes the Mechanical session if open and deletes the mechdb from disk System is in a state as if the geometry was never attached Deletes input and solver files Cleans results Deletes any objects under the Environ ment like loads and supports Deletes solver f
149. abled by default gt Download Progress Information on Demand causes queries to RSM to begin when you initiate an action to display the solution progress such as choosing the Display Monitors option in CFX Polyflow systems have the following check box Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 53 Working in ANSYS Workbench Download Progress Information specifies that the solver monitor should periodically query RSM for output files in order to display progress where applicable Queries to RSM begin when you initiate an action to display the solution progress This option is enabled by default Progress Download Interval Specifies the periodic time interval with which the solver should query RSM for output files in order to display progress Default is 30 seconds Setting this value to zero 0 results in continuous queries that is as soon as files are downloaded from the compute server ANSYS Workbench will immediately query again This option is available for Fluent and CFX systems Execution Mode Specifies serial or parallel solver execution mode The parallel option is available only if the selected solver supports parallel execution mode This option may not be available with all systems When performing a design point update via RSM with component update in the foreground the Parameter Set properties
150. agnetostatic G Modal P Modal Samcef M Response Spectrum Component Systems Custom Systems E Design Exploration Direct Optimization By Parameters Correlation Bl Response Surface Response Surface Optimization uh Six Sigma Analysis External ConnectionSystems T View All Customize For more information see Systems Toolbox Customization View The Toolbox Customization view allows you to specify which systems display in the Toolbox For more detailed information on this view see Customizing the Toolbox on the Project Tab p 9 Files View The Files view shows a list of all files associated with the project It allows you to see the name and type of file the ID of the cell s the file is associated with the size of the file the location of the file and other information You can sort the list via drop down menus in the column headers Files added to the project will appear here Files missing or deleted from the project will be shown in red and will be marked with a Deleted icon To remove deleted files from the Files view right click on the line containing the deleted file and select Remove filename from List from the context menu Use the Ctrl key to select multiple lines See Project File Management for more information on working with missing or deleted files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and co
151. ains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 171 ANSYS Workbench Systems 0 000 5 000 10 000 mm k UZ 2 500 7 500 Importing the load generates the following imported load Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 172 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 0 000 5 000 10 000 mm 2 500 7 500 Performing System Coupling Simulations Using External Data You can use Workbench to perform coupled simulations using multiple Analysis or Component Systems The External Data System may be used as a source of static that is unchanging data for other co simulation participants such as ANSYS Fluent or ANSYS Mechanical as described in the System Coupling Guide The tutorial Tutorial Heat Transfer from a Heating Coil in the System Coupling User s Guide is an example of a coupled analysis using External Data with System Coupling External Data System and System Coupling Configuration Each External Data system that is connected to the System Coupling system is represented as a coupling participant in the System Coupling setup The name of this participant will be the name of the External Data system specified in the Workbench Project Schematic Note that since the External Data system acts as a source of static data it can only be defined as the source in System Coupling s Data Transf
152. alternatives A single set of parameter values representing one design alternative is called a design point A set of design points can be created in tabular form and run automatically to perform a what if study ANSYS Workbench stores and coordinates all of the parameters and design points that are produced or consumed by components of the current project For the most part you will work with defined parameters and design points in two different tabs the Parameter Set tab and the Parameters tab Parameters and design points can also be used by ANSYS DesignXplorer for different types of automated design exploration studies which for DesignXplorer include Parameters Correlation Response Surface Goal Driven Optimization and Six Sigma Analysis xX able of Design Points a E ax B E ji A B a D E F G H i J Parameter Vae Unit 1 P4 w v P5 G1 v P6 G2 v Exported Note i 1 1214 2 465E 07 1 8313E 07 2 Input Parameters Si See N ESET CHAT r E e 3 DPL 0 5 1 4 32200 1 1298 2 6986E 07 1 6181E 07 oO Mechanical APDL a J 3 aA at 4 DP2 0 6 1 3 35880 1 107 2 8423E 07 1 3459E 07 F _ tp Pi HETI 0 4 5 DP3 0 7 1 2 38640 1 0601 2 9321E 07 1 0506E 07 5 P2 x2 15 z m ew rout a iNe 2 paramete 4 ot 7 E OutputParameters Paramete
153. an EM repository You must have saved the project in ANSYS Workbench before you can save it to the EKM repository In addition to the name you can include a brief description of the project This description will be visible when you view it in the EKM repository You can also choose whether to include results and or external files when you save the project by using the selections under the Show Options drop down See Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM p 119 for more information If you have not previously established a connection to an EKM repository you will be presented with a connection wizard that will allow you to set up a connection You must have a connection already established in order to save a project to a repository Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 259 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Open from Repository Opens a project saved in an EKM repository You can also save a working copy to a local directory See Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM p 119 for more information If you have not previously established a connection to an EKM repository you will be presented with a connection wizard that will allow you to set up a connection You must have a connection already established in order to save a project to a repository Send Changes to Repository Sends changes made to a previously saved projec
154. and its subsidiaries and affiliates 177 ANSYS Workbench Systems Fluent Fluent allows for fluid flow analysis of incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries You specify the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters in Fluent where the calculations are solved Use a Fluent component system to model incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries for your project Within Fluent a computational mesh is applied to a geometry pertinent mathematical models are applied e g low speed high speed laminar turbulent etc mater ials are chosen boundary conditions are defined and solution controls are specified that best represent the problem to be solved Fluent solves the mathematical equations and results of the simulation can be displayed in Fluent for further analysis e g contours vectors etc Drag the Fluent component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Fluent component system is comprised of two cells a Setup cell and a Solution cell Double click the Setup cell to open Fluent where you can import a computational mesh specify the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters as well as perform the calculations Alternatively you can import a previously saved Fluent case file by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Im
155. and rotate 85 saving 85 using the triad 85 viewing 81 clear generated data 265 266 command window journaling 71 component systems 135 149 246 Configuring Workbench 9 console window journaling 71 context menu link options 272 Project Schematic options 271 system header options 270 tab options 269 transfer options 268 context menus common options 265 custom parameters 96 custom systems 135 240 246 customizing 9 D data transfer 33 43 268 defining geometry 39 delete 265 deleting a system 48 Design Assessment analysis 135 136 Design Exploration 242 246 Design Exploration options 27 design points 93 101 activating 101 activating and exporting 105 dpall subdirectory 73 exporting 101 file management 71 running multiple 101 states 117 update order 104 updating 103 using RSM 107 viewing a table 250 DesignModeler to Icepak 201 dp0 subdirectory 72 dpall subdirectory 73 duplicate 265 duplicating a system 46 duplicating systems 265 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 281 Index E EKM in ANSYS Workbench 119 options 20 Electric analysis 135 138 Engineering Data component system 153 Engineering Data cell 252 errors troubleshooting 89 Excel as a Calculator 232 exiting during RSM design point update 107 during RSM Solution cell update 68 E
156. anged and the output of the cell needs to be regenerated When updating a Refresh Required cell the Refresh operation will be performed and then the Update operation will be performed Up to Date An Update has been performed on the cell and no failures have occurred It is possible to edit the cell and for the cell to provide up to date generated data to other cells Input Changes Pending Indicates that the cell is locally up to date but may change when next updated as a result of changes made to upstream cells Solution Specific States In addition the Solution or Analysis cell for certain solvers may support the following solution specific states Interrupted Indicates that you have interrupted the solution This option performs a graceful stop of the solver which will complete its current iteration and write a solution file You can use that solution for postpro cessing to look at the intermediate result for example You could also elect to continue to solve from that point using the Resume or Update function Pending a Signifies that a batch or asynchronous solution is in progress When a cell enters the Pending state you can interact with the project to exit ANSYS Workbench or work with other parts of the project If you Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 256 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Cells in Workbench make changes t
157. application can export data files axdt that can be used by the External Data system Note that the Mechanical application does not export temperature data in units of K The following is an example of an axdt file that has been exported from CFD Post Name Plane 1 Data X m X coordinate Y m Y coordinate Z m Z coordinate Wall Heat Transfer Coefficient W m 2 K 1 Heat Transfer Coefficient Wall Adjacent Temperature K Temperature 1 77312009e 02 5 38203605e 02 6 00000024e 02 7 12153496e 06 1 77312009e 02 5 79627529e 02 5 99999949e 02 5 06326614e 06 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 161 ANSYS Workbench Systems Faces 369 S70 276 267 350 374 367 368 This file contains three blocks each with one of the labels Name Data and Faces The Name block contains the name of the region contained defined in the file The Data block contains node coordinates and values The first line following the Data label is a header that contains a comma separated list of unique labels units and quantity type for coordinates and values at each node Units are contained in square brackets and quantity types are contained in parentheses Subsequent lines one per node contain a comma separated list of data defined in the header The Data block ends in the line before the
158. at any time to save your changes to the repository 3 Alternatively if you exit the project without sending your changes to the repository the Send Project Changes to Repository dialog will ask if you would like to do so If you do not want to be prompted upon exit to send changes to the repository select the Save my choice and don t ask this question again check box Your preference will be saved to the Workbench Tools gt Options dialog and will be used the next time you close a repository project without sending changes For details on options for sending project changes see Repository p 20 e Click Yes A Send Project Changes to Repositon This project is locally modified Do you want to send changes to the repository T Save my choice and don t ask this question again 4 The Archive Options for Sending Changes dialog allows you to specify which changes to include in the send You can select Include Results and or Include External Files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 126 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository A Archive Options for Sendi Please make selections on following archive options before sending M Indude Results M Indude External Files OK Cancel You cannot send changes to the repo
159. ata at any cell level Engineering Data Geometry or Model Mechanical Model systems are unfiltered physics and solver The Mechanical Model system is also created when you resume a legacy database that does not have an analysis environment already defined A Mechanical Model system may also be used as a system replacement for a Mesh system To create a new Mechanical Model system 1 Choose Mechanical Model from the Component Systems section of the Toolbox Double click or drag the Mechanical Model system onto the Project Schematic 2 Create or attach a geometry using the Geometry cell context menu Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 227 ANSYS Workbench Systems 3 Edit the model if necessary Right mouse click the Model cell and choose Edit 4 Adda connected system either by dragging a valid analysis system from the Toolbox and dropping it on the appropriate target location or right mouse click the Geometry or Model cell and choose Transfer Data To New 5 To create multiple system analysis branches repeat step 4 with other analysis systems To resume an existing legacy database that contains no physics environment 1 Choose File gt Import Browse to and select the legacy database and click Open 2 A Mechanical Model system appears in the Project Schematic with the legacy database loaded Double cl
160. ate Z Coordinate Temperature Heat Transfer Coefficient Thickness Heat Flux Heat Generation Link the External Data system into the desired Mechanical system cell Edit or if editor is already open Refresh the Mechanical System As needed create the desired Imported Load Thickness in Mechanical Not Used File NotUsed f Files NotUsed f Set Data Type To gt G Copy Select and copy the cell entries in the Combined Identifier Column that correspond to the multiple data sets using Ctrl C or right click and select Copy These data identifier strings will be used to specify which data set will be imported at each load step inside Mechanical Set the desired Number Of Steps in Mechanical s Analysis Settings object Set the step end times as desired you can copy and paste Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 167 ANSYS Workbench Systems 12 Select the Imported Object then paste the data identifier text into the appropriate cells inside the Data view on the imported object 13 As required copy and paste the desired step end times on the Analysis Settings Object and the Imported Data Object in the Analysis Time s column 14 Right click Import Load to invoke the mapping calculations 15 After mapping has completed you can review the various mappings by adjusting the Active Row e
161. ate the following Solution cell actions Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 200 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Set Case File Brings up an Open dialog box where you can specify an Icepak solution file to load This option is used primarily to view multiple solutions for a project If the user re solves in Icepak the solution case file will be overwritten with the latest solution Transfer Data to New Creates a downstream system that can accept data from the selected cell Only those systems that can provide valid data to the selected cell are shown When you choose a system from the options shown here that system will appear to the right of the currently selected system with all appropriate connections drawn Update If solution data is changed or modified you can perform an update You can bring in the latest solution case file into the solution cell for consumption System Names You can enter an Icepak system name for your project as described in Naming Your Systems In addition you can use the Rename option to change the name of a system or cell In the Icepak application you will find the system coordinate system name and application name displayed in the top left corner GE B Icepak_Test Icepak Tree 2 seup Y 3 i Solution v 4 application name system coordinate Icepak Properties Select
162. ated application Design Exploration design point design point update downstream Pre defined system template that includes all of the cells that are required to complete a start to finish analysis for a particular type of physics such as static structural or fluid flow Save all project files and data into a single package that can be shared stored and reused Individual part of a system that represents a discrete task in the process of completing the overall analysis Typical cells include Engineering Data Geometry Model or Mesh Setup Solution and Results Pre defined system template that includes only the cells necessary to complete a portion of a complete analysis Often these systems are task oriented for example a system to create a geometry or produce a mesh or are associated with a particular application An update of a single component or cell within a system in an ANSYS Workbench project For example an update of the Analysis cell within a project is a component update A Solution cell update is the only component update currently supported by Remote Solve Manager A context sensitive list of options available from a cell or other compon ent accessed via a right mouse click Pre defined system templates that include all of systems necessary to complete a coupled analysis such as FSI or thermal stress An application that has a separate interface from the ANSYS Workbench project window but that still
163. ately with the rest of the project therefore you can safely store additional files such as PowerPoint or Excel files or other files from separate applications that are associated with this project here without the risk of losing data If you save files in any other directory in the project structure and then exit without saving ANSYS Workbench will delete any files saved there since the last ANSYS Workbench save dpall Subdirectory and Working with Design Points ANSYS Workbench allows you to create multiple design points and generate comparison studies of input and output parameters To analyze your simulation across several design points you must first generate input parameters for the current project and if appropriate specify output parameters to be created Once you have created parameters you will see a Parameters cell added to the relevant system s and a Parameter Set bar added to the project At this point the current project is designated as Design Point 0 or dpo Use the Parameters tab to vary input parameters and create multiple design points which can be updated separately or sequentially Before running a design point update you should decide whether you want to retain the files generated during the design point update for further analysis ANSYS Workbench saves only the data for the current design point and the values of the output parameters computed for each design point If you want a different design point to be the
164. ates that all necessary files are loaded and up to date 3 The connection to Icepak can be established one of the following ways Drag and drop an Icepak system on top of the Geometry cell to establish a connection Double click Icepak in the Toolbox under the Component Systems node to bring the Icepak system into the Project Schematic click the Geometry cell and drag it to the Icepak Setup cell to establish a connection From the Icepak cell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data From New in the context menu You can then select a connection to DesignModeler From the Geometry cell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data to New in the context menu You can then select a connection to Icepak Geometry v 4 2 seu Geometry 3 Solution P Icepak 4 Double click on the Icepak cell to launch the Icepak application If the geometry is different from the DesignModeler s native format agdb then you will need to edit the geometry first before exporting into Icepak v 4 2 Gi Geometry vV 4 Geometry 3 y Solution 4 Icepak 5 Anew project will be created in the name of the project cell DesignModeler geometry will be imported into lcepak as STEP geometry 6 If the geometry is changed or modified the Icepak Setup cell will need to be refreshed in order to bring in the new geometry Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confident
165. ations are in progress on a separate system you can safely refresh the current system However if those operations are in progress on the same system that you wish to refresh or on a system connected to the one you want to refresh you must wait until those operations are completed before beginning a refresh Quick Help Displays a quick help panel for the cell if available Quick help provides a brief description of how to use the cell in its current state You can also left or right click on the blue triangle where available in the lower right corner of a cell to view quick help Add Edit Note Displays an editable panel where you can enter notes about a system or cell There is no limit to the amount of text you can type into a note as you type the panel increases in length You can also edit an existing note by left or right clicking on the green triangle in the upper right corner of a system or cell or by editing the Notes field in the Properties view To close the note click outside the panel To delete a note delete the text within the panel or from the Properties view The content of notes is also included in project reports Properties Displays applicable cell properties in the Properties view Recently Used Lists all recently used files Two additional items that are available with most context menus are Clear Generated Data Removes or erases any data that the cell has generated or is to generate and store if any such dat
166. axima For a given excitation the maximum response is calculated based upon the input response spectrum and the method used to combine the modal responses The combination methods available are the Square Root of the Sum of the Squares SRSS the Complete Quadratic Combination CQC and the Rosenblueth s Double Sum Combination ROSE You will configure your response spectrum analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution A response spectrum analysis must follow a modal analysis See the instructions in Modal and Modal Samcef p 145 to build a Modal analysis system Then follow the instructions below Alternatively you can select double click Response Spectrum from Custom Systems in the Toolbox This option creates a response spectrum system template that includes both the modal analysis and response spectrum analysis system templates with the links pre defined 1 From the modal analysis system right click on the Solution cell and select Transfer Data to New gt Re sponse Spectrum 2 Anew response spectrum system is created with the Engineering Data Geometry Model and Setup cells linked to the modal analysis system 3 Right click the Setup cell in the response spectrum system and select Edit or double click the Setup cell to open the Mechanical application In the Mechanical application window set your response spectrum controls using the Mechanical application s tools and featur
167. ay window 3 To generate contours please do the following Click the Insert menu and select Contour or click on the contour button to create a contour Retain the name Contour 1 and click OK In the Details section of the Geometry tab select All Domains next to Domains e Next to the Locations drop down box click on the small box to display the Locations Selector dialog box Highlight all CPU PCB and HEAT_SINK objects and click OK to close the panel Next to Variable select Temperature in the drop down list Select Apply to display the contours 4 To generate a 3D streamline please do the following Click the Insert menu and select streamline or click on the streamline button to create the streamline Retain the name Streamline 1 and click OK In the Details section of the Geometry tab select 3D Streamline for Type e Retain All Domains for Domains Select cabinet_default_side_maxx minx next to Start From e Retain Velocity for Variable Keep all other defaults the same Click Apply to display the streamline In addition you can animate the streamline To animate the streamline click on the animation button ae or select the Tools menu and click on Animation Step 8 Thermo Mechanical Structural Analysis Note In addition to solving this problem in Icepak you can also perform a static structural analysis Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains pro
168. ays Causes the Mechanical application to automatically close and release its license during batch runs when the Solution cell is in the pending state Design Point Run Only Causes the Mechanical application to automatically close and release its license during Update All Design Points runs when the Solution cell is in the pending state Parallel Processing Controls the number of cores used for Data Mapping and Post Processing Limit Number of Cores for Data Mapping and Post Processing Indicates the number of cores used by the data transfer mapping interpolation operations and result post processing should be limited to a user specified value The default is to use as many processors as available If limited the default is set to two cores Microsoft Office Excel Options Specify the following options for the Microsoft Office Excel add in Named Ranges Filtering Prefix If you wish to use a prefix to filter which Excel named ranges will be exposed as parameters in a Workbench project enter that prefix here All named ranges defined in the Excel file that include that prefix will be displayed as parameters in the project By default this setting is blank no filter If you specify a prefix the prefix will be used to filter the named ranges for all new design exploration systems For example if you set this option to WB the Named Range Key property in the Setup section of the Properties view of the Microsoft Office Excel Analysis syste
169. b Click the Part Mesh Setup icon In the Part Mesh Setup dialog choose a part and assign non zero values to one or more of its paramet ers Click in the Parameter column for the part A dialog asks you to confirm that you want to create a Workbench parameter for each value you ve changed Note If any Workbench parameters are already set for the part a dialog will ask if you want to delete that Workbench parameter Parameters assigned as Workbench parameters are highlighted in blue 190 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Part Mesh Setup TE 0 0 ee oe oa MOTOR Fee Pe SERVO o o fofozfof 0 3 IV Show size params using scale factor IV Apply inflation parameters to curves J7 Remove inflation parameters from curves Existing workbench input parameters using a lightblue background Apply Dismiss To delete a parameter click in the Parameter column A dialog will ask you to confirm that you want to delete each individual Workbench parameter in the row As with ICEM CFD the Apply inflation parameters to curves and Remove inflation parameters from curves options affect Workbench parameter behavior as well The current value of Apply inflation parameters to curves is saved to the project file aienv_options file
170. bench is a customized application to setup and solve the flow inside an IC engine IC Engine system is used for quantification of flow rate swirl and tumble and other flow parameters inside the engine during the engine cycle with moving geometry IC Engine system uses ANSYS Fluent solver for fluid flow analysis 1 Add an IC Engine analysis system by dragging the system from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the system in the Toolbox 2 Select type of simulation and specify engine parameters in the ICE cell Properties and update the cell 3 Double click the Geometry cell to open the DesignModeler Load the geometry and click Input Manager to enter the geometry inputs required and generate the features Then decompose the geometry by clicking Decompose 4 Open the Meshing application by double clicking or selecting Edit from the context menu of the Mesh cell of IC Engine System Once the geometry is loaded into the meshing application click IC Setup Mesh and set the meshing parameters followed by IC Generate Mesh to create the mesh Update the Mesh cell in the IC Engine System Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 143 ANSYS Workbench Systems 5 Open the ANSYS Fluent application by double clicking or editing the Setup cell and enter the number of time steps in Fluent settings and run the
171. by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing New Geometry 3 Specify the Aqwa settings by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Edit 4 In the Aqwa application window complete your Aqwa analysis using the application s tools and features 5 Start the solution by selecting Solve from the Aqwa application or Update from the Solution cell in the Project Schematic You also have the option of importing a previously saved Aqwa aqdb file by selecting File gt Import from the Workbench toolbar choosing files of Type AQWAWB Database aqdb and navigating to the database file See Importing Legacy Databases p 78 for additional information For detailed information on working with Aqwa in ANSYS Workbench see Aqwa Introduction What is Aqwa available in the ANSYS online help In addition please see the separate Aqwa documentation that can be accessed from Start gt All Programs gt ANSYS 15 0 gt Help gt AQWA gt AQWA Reference 15 0 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 142 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems Hydrodynamic Time Response Aqwa allows for the calculation of Wave Forces and Structure Motions in regular or irregular waves You specify the geometry in DesignModeler and Aqwa specific solution parameters within the Aqwa application where the calculations are solved Use an Aqwa Hydrodynamic Time Resp
172. can be unsup pressed and displayed as menu selections Duplicate Creates a custom unit system based on selected unit system Deletes unit system The following unit systems cannot be deleted Predefined Unit System e Active Project Unit System Default Unit System Imports units xml file xm1 Units A unit system is a collectio Exports unit system in units xml file xm1 format n of the preferred unit for the base common and other quantity types e Base Units All other units are derived from these units Angle Chemical Amount Current Length Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 11 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Luminance Mass Solid Angle Time Temperature Common Units These are units which are derived from the base units and are typically used as base units for other units Electric Charge Energy Force Power Pressure Voltage Other Units Several other units are derived from base and common units For detail description on how units are used in expressions see Expressions Quantities and Units p 98 Predefined Unit Systems ANSYS Workbench offers the following predefined unit systems Metric kg m s C A N V default unit system e Metric tonne mm s C mA N mV U S Customary Ibm i
173. ch context menu options The ICEM CFD system header context menu options include Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 180 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Refresh Update Duplicate Delete Rename Properties Add Edit Note These standard actions are described in System Header Context Menu Options p 270 Note If available Update will use the ICEM CFD Replay file to update the ICEM CFD project Note Scripts written in ICEM CFD may not be parametric with upstream or downstream projects Care should be taken to write scripts whose functions do not exceed the capabilities of the upstream or downstream component systems Model cell The Model cell is associated with the ICEM CFD application You can use the Model cell to modify some aspects of the project You can also double click the Model cell to open the project in ICEM CFD The Model cell context menu items include the following Edit Opens the ICEM CFD application and loads an existing Geometry ICEM CFD file Duplicate Copies the entire geometry and mesh data enabling you to edit the Model cell in the du plicate system to investigate an alternative modeling approach Transfer Data From New Enables the transfer of data from upstream Geometry Mesh Mechanical Model or combined Geometry and Mesh components Note If t
174. chanical application s tools and features See Rigid Dynamics Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a Rigid Dynamics analysis in the Mechanical application Static Structural and Static Structural Samcef A static structural analysis determines the displacements stresses strains and forces in structures or components caused by loads that do not induce significant inertia and damping effects Steady loading and response conditions are assumed that is the loads and the structure s response are assumed to vary slowly with respect to time You will configure your static structural analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS or Samcef solver depending on which system you selected to compute the solution 1 Add a static structural analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your static structural analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Static Structural Analysis in the Mechanical application help for mor
175. cks which represent only a subset of a complete analysis For example you can use a Geometry component system to define your geometry and then connect the component system to several downstream systems so component system can then be con nected to several downstream systems so that the downstream systems share the same geometry source The Component Systems category also includes applications that open outside of ANSYS Workbench rather than as a tab allowing you to use Workbench to manage your analysis data and files This can be useful for products such as Mechanical APDL which uses numerous files during an analysis Custom Systems p 240 Predefined templates for custom coupled systems comprised of multiple ana lysis systems with predefined data connections You can also create templates for your own custom system templates which will then be stored and displayed as part of this category Design Exploration p 242 DesignXplorer systems that can be added beneath the Parameter Set bar allowing you to perform various design exploration studies External Connection Systems p 243 enables you to integrate custom lightweight external applications and processes into the ANSYS Workbench Project Schematic workflow Features exposed by the External Connection also allow you to perform automation and customization activities With the External Connection you can integrate custom lightweight external applications define User Inter
176. component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Vista CPD component system is comprised of one cell a Blade Design cell Double click the Blade Design cell to open the cell properties where you can specify the solution parameters generate a solution and view the results For more information about Vista CPD see Vista CPD help Vista RTD Vista RTD is a program for the preliminary design of radial inflow turbines It can be used in an iterative fashion to create a 1D design The resulting geometry can be passed to BladeGen BladeEditor and Vista TF Vista RTD can also be used to model an existing turbine An accurate 1D model can provide insight into the performance of the machine that goes beyond the test measurements Drag the Vista RTD component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Vista RTD component system is comprised of one cell a Blade Design cell Double click the Blade Design cell to open the cell properties where you can specify the solution parameters generate a solution and view the results For more information about Vista RTD see Vista RTD help Vista TF The Vista TF program is a streamline curvature throughflow program for the analysis of any type of turbomachine but has been developed in the first instance primarily as a tool for radial turbomachinery analysis The program enables you to rapidly e
177. controlled as an External CAD system with no direct integration into the Project Schematic Note Switching this preference from within an active project could result in project schematic in consistencies and undesired behavior It is advised that this preference be set during project creation and remain unchanged by all users interacting with the project If the preference must be changed the Geometry systems that reference SpaceClaim geometry should be Reset and reconfigured to properly release any previously stored parameters and file references Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 27 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Preferred Geometry Editor Specifies the preferred geometry editor You can choose either Design Modeler default of SpaceClaim Direct Modeler Note The SpaceClaim Direct Modeler option is not available when the Use SpaceClaim Direct Modeler as an External CAD option is checked CAD Integration Options CAD Licensing Specifies if the plug in license should be retained or released after the CAD import refresh Hold Instructs ANSYS Workbench to keep the license after the import or refresh operation has completed The option is useful when executing design studies Release Instructs ANSYS Workbench to free the license for someone else s use after the import or refresh operat
178. ct you will need to save the project to a perman ent location 10 Initiate the update of the desired design point s see Updating Design Points p 103 The project will be archived submitted to RSM for remote solution and the remote data will be retrieved periodically as the design point updates complete Should a design point update fail any errors will be reported to the Messages view When updating design points via RSM each output parameter that was out of date when the design point update was initiated will be shown in a pending state ki in the Table of Design Points ANSYS Workbench will periodically query RSM and will refresh any design point updates that have completed since the previous query Design point updates that have not yet completed will continue to be shown in a pending state Design points that have been updated via RSM need to be reintegrated into the project as the updates complete In order to do so safely and ensure the integrity of the data ANSYS Workbench restricts or disables several GUI operations during pending RSM design point updates Open editors may automatically close Drag and drop from the Toolbox is disabled e Most context menu toolbar and menu selections are disabled e Accessing Properties via a context menu is allowed but properties in the Properties view cannot be modified Input parameters cannot be modified All File menu options except Exit and Save are disabled Relat
179. ct all design points for export 2 Specify the design points to be updated via one of the following methods Right click an individual design point and select Update Selected Design Points from the context menu Click the Update All Design Points button from the toolbar Either of these actions will write out separate projects one for each design point selected using the values of the selected design point The projects resulting from the export will be fully independent and up to date projects named lt projectname gt _dpn wbpj located as siblings in the same directory as the main project Your parent project must be saved before you can save any subsequent design points If the design point Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 105 Working with Parameters and Design Points fails to export the files for that design point will remain in the pro ject_files dpn directory until you delete them manually or attempt to update the design point again To export a design point you must mark it for export before updating it If a design point is already up to date and is then marked for export you must update the design point again in order to export it When the design point is updated Workbench performs a full update to ensure that when possible all of the cells and systems in the exported project are up to date
180. d and that are defined by an ex pression For more information see Custom Parameters p 96 All parameters have a type preferably a quantity with a quantity name The quantity name is used to define preferred and available units for the quantity If the value is not a quantity or does not have a quantity name set it will be displayed as unitless throughout the GUI Parameters can be added to or deleted from the current project but this may set the existing design points and Design Exploration systems to an out of date state and could result in several hours of recal culation time depending on the project Be aware that deleting a parameter referenced in the expression of another parameter will invalidate the driven data model resulting in an error Custom Parameters At the project level you can create custom parameters that are not directly associated to a data model property They can be custom input or custom output parameters that can be defined by a constant value e g 12 5 cm or sin pi 2 or they can be derived parameters defined by an expression of other parameters e g P2 3 P3 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 96 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Parameters To create a derived parameter enter the expression statement in the Expression field of the Properties of Outline view or in the Value field of the Outline of Para
181. d graphed For information on how to set up an ANSYS DesignXplorer analysis see the Design Exploration User s Guide Ansoft lcepak Coupling in Workbench Icepak can be coupled with Ansoft applications within Workbench in order to perform a one way elec tromagnetic thermal interaction problem Coupling between Ansoft and Icepak applications within Workbench can be used for simulating fluid flow around or inside electromechanical EM devices when the temperature of the device is influenced by electromagnetic losses Note The Ansoft Maxwell HFSS and Q3D Extractor applications are supported for one way coupling between Ansoft and Icepak in Workbench The coupling involves solving an electromagnetic problem in the Ansoft application and mapping the resulting volumetric heat loss and or surface loss information into Icepak Volumetric loss is mapped onto the solid cell zones as a heat source load at the cell centroids that is then added to the energy equation Surface loss is applied to the adjacent cells of the solid zones at the surface that contribute to the source terms of these cells Note Surface loss is highly concentrated near the surface of the solid zone so it is recommended to have a fine layer of good quality hexahedral or prism mesh elements located where surface loss occurs You can analyze the results of volumetric or surface losses using the heat flow postprocessing variable under Summary report Note Wh
182. d it to the repository When opening a project from the repository ANSYS Workbench will download the archive from the repository and extract it to the local directory specified in the Open Project from Repository dialog box The following sections discuss how to work with projects saved to an EKM repository Each section as sumes that you already have an open repository connection Saving a Project to an EKM Repository Opening a Project from an EKM Repository Sending Project Changes to the EKM Repository Getting Project Changes from the EKM Repository Managing EKM Repository Project Changes Saving a Project to an EKM Repository You can save your ANSYS Workbench project to an EKM repository for archive storage or to share with other users Once the project has been saved to the repository you can also perform additional EKM based operations on it through the EKM Web Client To save a project to an EKM repository 1 Create a new ANSYS Workbench project and set up the analysis to any desired status or open an existing ANSYS Workbench project 2 Save the project if necessary 3 Select File gt Save to Repository 4 Choose the repository location to which you want to save the project If the project already exists in the repository location you cannot overwrite the existing project so you will be given the option to save the local copy under a new filename To save the newly named project to the repository use the File gt Sav
183. d show a green check mark indicating an up to date state Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Mesh It is also possible to bypass the Geometry cell and begin the simulation process by importing a mesh 1 Right click on the Mesh cell and select Import Mesh File In the Open dialog browse to find your desired mesh file and select Open The process for CFX and Fluent differs only in the types of files that are sup ported as shown by the options shown in the Files of Type drop down list After selecting Open the Mesh cell will change to Imported Mesh and will show a green check mark to indicate an up to date state The Geometry cell which must be unused for the Import Mesh File option to be shown in the Mesh cell context menu will be deleted from the system examples shown below for both a CFX and a Fluent based Fluid Flow system 4 v B 2 ImportedMesh v 2 Imported Mesh A 3 Setup 2 3 Setup a 4 63 Solution Ea 4 E3 Solution Ey 5 Results P 5 Results Fluid Flow CFx Fluid Flow FLUENT 2 Double click on the Setup cell or right click and select Edit to load the physics pre processor From this point follow the procedure described in Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from Geometry p 41 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 42 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Creating and Linking a Second System
184. d to those files disappears However the files remain selected and operations subsequently performed will be applied to all of the selected files Table 5 Properties View Definition Section Property Description Dimension You can choose to either import data from 2D or 3D models If the 2D option is selected you will be able to import data only at the X and Y coordinates The Z coordinate is not supported for the 2D option Start Import at Line The line number at which you want the data import to start Line num bers start at 1 Format Choose either Delimited causes the Delimiter Character field to appear which en ables you to specify the character that delimits data elements in a line The options are Comma Semicolon Space Tab or User Defined The latter choice enables you to specify any character as the data delimiter Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 155 ANSYS Workbench Systems Description User Defined enables you to specify the format specification for the file The allowed format specifiers are given below Note For release 14 5 the default Format Type has changed to Delimited with a Delimited Type of comma A second related change has been made to the way that column data is numbered Prior to release 14 5 data was numbered consecutively for eac
185. de y n v ct v You can check out licenses to ensure the appropriate licenses are available for a design point update For more information see Updating Design Points p 103 Changes made to a project with up to date design points may cause all existing design points to go out of date if the change is related to the parametric study being performed Any change not relevant to the parametric study such as adding a standalone system or making a change downstream of the study should not cause design points to go out of date For changes that invalidate the Table of Design Points you will need to re update the project which could require significant time and or computing resources You should always save your project after updating all design points and before further modifying the project In most cases a design point update operation applies only to cells affected by parameter changes cells without associated parameters or cells whose associated parameters did not change are not updated Note The exception is External Connection and CFD Post systems For these you can specify that some cells will always be updated with a design point update operation even when parameter values are not affected To do so open the cell Properties view and select Always Include in Design Point Update To update all project cells regardless of whether the parameters associated with those cells have changed you must select Update Project
186. ded 3 You can also import geometry into Icepak from DesignModeler Please see the DesignModeler to Icepak section for details on importing geometry from DesignModeler into Icepak or loading a geometry Workbench Menu Options Overview for Icepak Projects Many Icepak options remain the same when running Icepak from the ANSYS Workbench framework However there are a few changes that should be noted Save project Select Save project to save all changes to your project The Save button in Workbench works the same way as Save project in Icepak you can use either one All Icepak projects saved in ANSYS Workbench will follow the directory structure described in Project File Management See File Menu for a description of Save and Save as options in ANSYS Workbench Archive Select Archive to generate a single archive file that contains all project files This archive will include the project file and all files in the project_name_files directory not just Icepak files The archive will be saved as a zip file Icepak users familiar with the Pack option in the standalone Icepak application will find this option works in a similar fashion except that all ANSYS Workbench files are archived See File Menu for a complete description of the Archive option in ANSYS Workbench Note Previously imported external files from a restored archive directory are treated as internal files if archived again Restore Archive Select Restore Archive to rest
187. dependent drop targets The following Show Me animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product A WS2a spring Workbench Fie iew Tools Unts Extensions Heb Calea Ni Projet Custom GUI gf Import Reconnect Refresh Project Update Project E Analysis Systems ED Design Assessrert Becinc E plict Oynamics E uid Flow Blow Molding Polyfiow Fiuid Flow Etrusion Polyflow v v v v v Hydrodynamic Time Resporse IC Engine Static Structural Linear Buckling Linear Buckling Samcef Magnetostatc Modal Modal Samcef Random vibraton Response Spectrum Rigid Dynamic Static Structure Static Structural Semncef Steady State Thermal Steady State Thermal Samcef Thermal Bectric Vew Al Customize Ready Eii Show Progress Show O Messages Use Transfer Data Context Options The Transfer Data options available in the context menu allow you to select a cell in an existing system and create a new system either upstream or downstream of that system To create a new system upstream of the existing system so the existing system is dependent right click the target cell in the existing system and select Transfer Data from New Select your new system from a list of all possible
188. dic time interval with which the solver should query RSM for output files in order to display progress Default is 30 seconds Setting this value to zero 0 results in continuous queries that is as soon as files are downloaded from the compute server ANSYS Workbench will immediately query again This option is available for CFX systems only Default Execution Mode Specifies if you want the solution to run in serial or parallel mode Default is serial The parallel option is available only if the selected solver supports parallel execution mode Default Number of Processes If parallel execution mode is selected allows you to specify the number of processes to use if you choose to run in parallel mode Must be set to 2 or greater Pre RSM Foreground Update Indicates if you want to do a local geometry only update prior to submitting design point update to RSM Select Geometry to update your geometry locally before submitting design point updates to RSM Default Job Submission Determines how design point updates are handled if submitted to RSM Select one of the following options gt One Job for All Design Points All design points are submitted as a single job to RSM Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 19 Configuring ANSYS Workbench gt One Job for Each Design Point Each design point is submitted
189. ditions exist The ignored elements will not be used when data is mapped in the downstream application One or more of the nodes forming the element are not defined in the NBLOCK command The element does not have a corresponding element type and number ET command defined in the CDB file Note CDB files must contain only solid elements or shell elements but not both For nodal data transfers the number of nodes in the Mechanical APDL CDB file must match the number of data transfer items in all slave files If data is not available at midside nodes then Average Data at Midside Nodes property can be used to specify the data at Midside nodes as an average of data at corner nodes Importing an ANSYS External Data File as Input To import an axdt file as a source file select Data Sources gt Location When you specify an ANSYS External Data file the Format Type is automatically set to ANSYS External Data File Also the Length Unit property will not be available because this information is specified in the file All length unit in formation in the axdt file must be the same all meters for example ANSYS External Data files have the restriction that the Start Import at Line setting is disabled as the entire file is read as data Delimiter Type Delimiter Character and Format String are also disabled This file format is described in the next section ANSYS External Data File Format CFD Post and the Mechanical
190. dp0 and design points see the section dpall Subdirectory and Working with Design Points p 73 Within the design point folder are system folders for each system in the project Within each system folder are folders for each application used in the system i e the Mechanical application Fluent etc These folders contain application specific files and folders such as input files model directories engin eering data resources etc System folders for each system type are named as follows System Type Folder name Autodyn ATD BladeGen BG Design Exploration DX Engineering Data ENGD FE Modeler FEM Fluid Flow Poly FFF analysis system FLU component sys flow tem Fluid Flow CFX CFX Geometry Geom SYS top level MECH subdirectory Mechanical SYS top level MECH subdirectory Mechanical APDL APDL TS VTF IPK The Mechanical application and Mesh system folders under the dp folder s are labeled SYS Both the Mechanical application and Mesh files are written to MECH subdirectories because both are generated by Mechanical based applications In addition to the system folders the dpn folders also contain a globa1 folder This folder contains subdirectories for all systems in the project These subdirectories may be shared by more than one system in the project and contain all database files as well as any files that are associated directly with the database files
191. e ANSYS150_PRODUCT environment variable is set in a user s local startup script or is set manually at runtime or via the launcher the reserved licenses will run correctly Related Topics Tracking Licenses Returning Reserved Licenses Using HPC Parametric Pack Licenses Tracking Licenses ANSYS Workbench now tracks licenses that are used during an update You can see what licenses were used for any cell by viewing that cell s properties The licenses used are shown in the Last Update Used Licenses field in the properties You may find it useful to run the update of at least one design point as you normally would and then review the licenses that were actually used so that you know which licenses need to be reserved for a future study License usage is tracked only for an Update operation in a component to which reserved licensing functionality may be applied it is not tracked if a cell be comes up to date as the result of an Edit operation or for updates in DesignXplorer components Note License usage is not tracked for DesignXplorer components DesignXplorer uses reserved li censes indirectly by initiating design point updates License tracking may not return the information in some cases such as if a cell s editor was open at the time of the update In this case you will see Not Applicable in the Last Update Used Licenses field Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential infor
192. e 188 User Defined Parameters Example cccccssccccccceceessensneceececceseeessnseeeeeeeeeeseecsnnaeeeeeeseseeeeenaaes 194 Cepak a E a a E E SAR TNS 197 D signModeler to lcepaK reoni anneni e cones E ated EEE E E E AEE EENE 201 PostProcessing of Icepak Results sssssessessesssssessssserssssseessseressseressssreessssreessseressseressssreessssesst 204 Thermal Results From Icepak to Mechanical ccccccccsessssscceececeseeesnneeeeeeeceseeessnnneeeeeeeeeeeeees 205 Design Explorer Icepak Coupling in Workbench 0 cceceesesescceeceeeesessneeecececceesessneeeeeeeeeseees 206 Ansoft Icepak Coupling in Workbench ccccccccccesesssssnecceeeceessesseaaceeeeceeseueesnaaeeeeeeseesenseaaees 210 ANSYS Icepak Workbench Integration Tutorial 0 0 0 eeesseeccessseeceessneeeeeesaeeeeesseeeeessnaeeeees 212 Mechanical APD ananin ns ae a a Saleen vbeebet Aeae Ia AEE EEEE 223 Mechanical Models inaen n EN A TA E E N Nee 227 Model to Model Connections esssssesesesessssssssseeesesssssserreeesssssseereeeesssssseeteeeessssseerrreeeesssssereet 228 MOS eere nee ne ea E E O EA EA A EE EEE A EENE 228 Mesh to Mesh Connections ssssessssssssssssereessssssssereeesssssseereeesesssssereeeeessssssserereesssssesreeeeesssssseete 230 Microsoft Office EXce lorena aie Ea Aa eE a NEEE E AEAEE REEE tut EA NEEE 232 Pr paring th Excel files sesiis iieii eaae eeii eoi iie aii aoad eiai E eaa Eeoa 232 vi Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc Al
193. e Solve Manager b Set the Queue c Set the Execution Mode to Parallel d Set the Number of Processes For a serial solution choose 1 for a parallel solution specify the number of partitions desired p Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 58 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench 3 Update the project When the Mechanical APDL job is submitted to RSM some options in the Properties view Pro cessors Distributed MPI Type Machine List and Custom Executable Path become read only and their values are ignored Note All files involved in a distributed solve will be downloaded unless Download Distributed Files is unchecked Note Mechanical APDL has the following limitations when used with Remote Solve Manager e Reconnect will not work after moving a project to another machine Only one copy of a saved project that is in the pending state can reconnect successfully e You must manually save a project after a reconnect e Reference files must be in the same directory as the ANSYS input file e Restarts of solves to LSF PBS or HPC are not supported from Workbench Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to HPC via RSM If you have a Microsoft HPC queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to
194. e archive is extracted the project will open in ANSYS Workbench You can also extract the archive manually by using an unzip utility and then opening the wbp 4 file Scripting Use this option to record a journal of your session execute a journal or script or open a Python command window Choose one of the following options Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 261 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Record Journal Creates a journal of the ANSYS Workbench session Stop Recording Journal Stops recording of the current session Run Script File Runs a previously created journal or script Open Command Window Opens a Python command window for issuing ANSYS Workbench commands You can also select from a list of previously used journals For more information on recording journals and creating scripts for reuse see Using Journals and Scripts p 69 Export Report Select this option to write out a report of the current project in htm1 htm format The report will be written to the user_files directory under the project directory by default You can control whether the report opens by default using the Options gt Project Reporting settings The report contains basic project information including Export time and date ANSYS Workbench version number a graphic of the systems as shown in the proj
195. e information on conducting a structural analysis in the Mechanical application Steady State Thermal and Steady State Thermal Samcef You can use a steady state thermal analysis to determine temperatures thermal gradients heat flow rates and heat fluxes in an object that are caused by thermal loads that do not vary over time A steady state thermal analysis calculates the effects of steady thermal loads on a system or component Engineers often perform a steady state analysis before performing a transient thermal analysis to help establish initial conditions A steady state analysis also can be the last step of a transient thermal analysis per formed after all transient effects have diminished You will configure your steady state thermal analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS or Samcef solver to compute the solution 1 Add a steady state thermal analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your steady state thermal analysis using the Mechan ical application s
196. e produced by all Autodyn runs Primary output files include e results file adres for post process save file admodel_cycle adres for post processing and database modification during a run e history data files his sum that record time dependant data at gauge locations and summary data for materials parts e print file prt recording a text summary of the model definition and results log file 10g listing solution information and warnings or errors encountered Working with an Autodyn Analysis To add an Autodyn analysis to your project double click the Autodyn object or drag and drop it from the Component Systems area of the Toolbox into the Project Schematic An Autodyn system appears in the Project Schematic You can connect other systems to an Autodyn system by using the Transfer Data From New context menu options When transferring data to an Autodyn system from another system you can transfer data to the Setup cell from two locations Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 150 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Setup cell of an analysis system most commonly an Explicit Dynamics system Mesh cell of a Mesh component system In both cases you must update the Setup Mesh cell after connecting to the Autodyn Setup cell This update operation produces a CAFRep xm1 file that can subsequently be consumed by
197. e set but can be selected from a list in the parameter Properties view Once the value quantity name e g Area is determined from the unit of the value it can only be subsequently changed by changing the parameter s value quantity name property setting You cannot change the expression e g from area to volume without changing the value quantity name The expression defined for a custom boolean parameter can be the Python values True or False or a Python logical expression such as P1 gt P2 or P1 10 and P2 10 For a parameterized boolean parameter you can select True False from the drop down in the Value column The expression defined for a custom string parameter must be quoted with single or double quotes i e string value or string value Output to Input Chaining of Parameters You can chain output to input parameters to allow an input to be driven directly from the current value of an output provided that the chaining does not create a circular dependency To chain parameters change the input parameter definition to an expression involving other parameters To create a derived variable first insert an expression and then edit the Expression field in the Properties of Outline view Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 97 Working with Parameters and Design Points Expressions
198. e specific systems included in each category depend on what products you have installed and the availability of licenses If you do not have a product installed or do not have an available license the systems corresponding to that product cannot be displayed in the Toolbox To get more information on a product that is discussed in the documentation but you do not see in your Toolbox go to the Support page of the ANSYS Customer Portal and submit an online support request For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Customer Portal go to ht tp support ansys com docinfo The Toolbox Customization view accessed via the View All Customize button at the bottom of the Toolbox shows a list of all the systems available in your installation of ANSYS Workbench You can specify whether available systems will be visible in the Toolbox customizing the display to show only the systems you use frequently Select systems to show them in the Toolbox or deselect systems to hide them When you re finished click lt lt Back to close the Toolbox Customization view Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 9 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Ya x Toolbox Customization B Analysis Systems Design Assessmer electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Fluid Flow Extrus amp Fluid Flow CFX
199. e to Repository option 5 Set the remote project filename and add a description if desired 6 Click Show Options and select the Include Results or Include External Files options if desired 7 Select one of the following options from the Access control drop down Use Default Permission Uses the default permissions for your account Get Exclusive Control Gives you exclusive control of the project preventing other users from editing it Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 123 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM Place under Version Control Places the project under versioning control allowing the file to be edited by only one user at a time When you select this option you can check out the project by se lecting the Check out check box on the Version Control dialog box Files under version control are identified by their version numbers in Workbench For more information on this option see Version Control and Access Management in the Engin eering Knowledge Manager 8 Click the Save button A save Project to Repository Saveto Default servername123 Repository v E G E OF Name Version Status O Sample Files PEKM_test_09162013 wbpz 4 m r File name EKM_LinearBuckling Save as type Workbench Project Archive wbpz v Description a Hide Options Cancel
200. ease 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 214 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Select Meter as the desired length unit Click Generate to display the model Edit the geometry in DesignModeler using the Electronics option in the Tools menu Select Simplify and choose the appropriate simplification level and select bodies In this case select all objects with level 2 Simplification Type and click Generate Refer to the Design Modeler documentation for more detailed information on using the Electronics options Note The Electronics menu is shown only if the DesignModeler option Enable Electronics Options is turned on Drag and drop an Iceak template into the Project Schematic on top of the Geometry cell A2 to transfer the geometry into Icepak Right click on the Setup cell and select Edit to launch Icepak The CAD model appears in the graphics display window and has been converted to Icepak objects Click the isometric toolbar icon oe to display the isometric view of the model Using the object edit panel edit the properties for the objects To edit the properties perform a right mouse click on the object and select Edit object to display the object panel Rename the objects using the object names as shown in The Final Model Display and click the Properties tab and enter the spe cifications shown below Table 12 Object Prope
201. ect schematic e file information parameter and design point information system and cell information The specific information provided will vary depending on the contents of the project Additional information may be available from the individual applications Not all applications provide reporting information Recently Viewed Files Shows the four most recently opened projects Exit Exits and closes ANSYS Workbench You will be prompted to save any unsaved data View Menu The View menu provides the following options for controlling the window layout Refresh Updates the view Reset Workspace Restores the current workspace layout to default settings Reset Window Layout Restores the original window layout Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 262 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench List of Views All ANSYS Workbench views are listed You can select which view s you want to display Any changes you make to views are carried forward to subsequent ANSYS Workbench sessions For a detailed descrip tion of the individual views listed here see Views within Tabs p 245 Show Connections Bundled Shows multiple links connecting systems as a single link where possible A bundled connection includes a label indicating the shared cells e g 2 4 indicates that cells 2 3 and 4 are shared between systems Show System
202. ect to Mechanical Drag and drop an Analysis cell on top of the Icepak Solution cell to establish a connection Double click an analysis type in the Toolbox under the Analysis Systems node to bring the analysis into the Project schematic click the Icepak Solution cell and drag it to the analysis Setup cell to es tablish a connection From the analysis Setup cell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data From New in the context menu You can then select a connection to Icepak From the Icepak cell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data To New in the context menu You can then select a connection to an analysis system v 4 v B v C 1 Z Geometry 1E Icepak E 72 Static Structural 2 Gi Geometry e2 R2 Setup v 4 2 EngineeringData v 4 Geometry 3 E Solution v 4 3 A Geometry e Icepak 4 Model Ps 5 R2 Setup Tj 6 E Solution Ta 7 E Results Ts Static Structural 3 Load geometry to satisfy the system Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 205 ANSYS Workbench Systems v B v Ls me is Icepak 1 7 Static Structural Geometry 2 2 we Setup a 2 amp Engineering Data w 4 Geometry 3 E Solution v 4 3 0M Geometry Sy Icepak 4 model i 5 07 Setup P 6 SE Solution Ta 7 Results PG Static Structural 4 Double click on the Setup
203. ed Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 17 Configuring ANSYS Workbench If this check box is selected the following option is enabled Include journal comments for properties of newly created Select to specify that for each object query the journal will include a set of comments showing the values of all visible properties for the object Journal comments for newly created objects will also be displayed in the Command Window when it is active Workbench Log Files Use these settings to specify your preferences for Workbench log files Write Workbench Log Files Specify whether Workbench log files should be written If this check box is selected ANSYS Workbench writes two log files for each ANSYS Workbench session The two files are UlEventsprocID log CoreEventsprocID log where procID is the process ID of the ANSYS Workbench session To identify the log file of the most recent session it is most convenient to sort the directory by date The log file will contain information that is useful to technical support whenever an error is encountered Other applications may continue to write log files to their own directories even if launched from ANSYS Workbench When this check box is selected the following options are enabled Workbench Log Files Directory Select the directory to which Workbench log files should be written On Windows the
204. ed to or opened from a repository ANSYS Workbench always operates directly on the local working copy of the project Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 122 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository ANSYS Workbench is aware of the relationship between the local project and the repository copy and will help you manage your project and maintain consistency When closing a changed local copy of a project you can update the repository copy If you open a local project and the copy in the repository is more recent you have the option of downloading and updating to the repository version This situation can happen if for example you are collaborating with another user on a project that is stored centrally in the repository and that user has made recent changes to the project Access control settings enable you to restrict project permissions or apply project versioning helping to minimize the potential for conflicts or duplicate work ANSYS Workbench projects in an EKM repository are always stored as a Workbench Project Archive with a wopz extension which will provide a single consistent package that holds all project data ANSYS Workbench manages the creation or extraction of projects from an archive for you When saving to the repository ANSYS Workbench will create a project archive and uploa
205. ed Topics Aborting or Interrupting an RSM Design Point Update Exiting a Project during an RSM Design Point Update Note for Using Windows LSF Scheduler Product Specific Limitations Aborting or Interrupting an RSM Design Point Update You can abort or interrupt an RSM update in progress In the Progress view while the Status column displays the message Waiting for background task click on the interrupt icon 9 in the Progress column You will be prompted to either abort or interrupt the update or to cancel the dialog If you select Abort the RSM job is stopped if it is already running or removed from the queue if the job is not yet running No data will be returned to the project If you select Interrupt the RSM job is stopped if it is already running and any available data will be re turned to the project If the job has not yet started interrupting behaves the same as stopping and no Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 111 Working with Parameters and Design Points data will be returned to the project A message with this information will be displayed in the Messages view If you select Cancel the dialog is dismissed and no action is taken Exiting a Project during an RSM Design Point Update You can exit a project while an RSM design point update is in progress i e one or more RSM jobs are
206. ed systems Enable Solution Monitoring Allows you to be able to graphically view Fluent solution convergence and monitor data without having Fluent open Once this option is enabled you can use the Show Solution Monitoring option in the Solution cell context menu to display convergence and monitor charts Default Disabled Enable Generation of Interpolation File Instructs the Fluent solver to automatically generate an interpolation file ip at the end of the run Unlike dat file the ip file can be used to restart the Fluent session even if the mesh has been modified Default Disabled Mechanical Specify the following options for the Mechanical application Pre load the Mechanical editor Controls whether the Mechanical editor starts in the background when a Mechanical system is added to the Project Schematic or when a project containing a Mechan ical editor system is resumed Default Disabled If you enable or disable this option you must restart Workbench for your change to take effect Auto Detect Contact On Attach Controls whether contact detection is computed upon geometry import into Mechanical Default Enabled Release License for Pending Jobs Specifies when the Mechanical application is to release its license when running in batch mode Enable Legacy Solve Causes Mechanical to revert to an older method of launching the Mechanical APDL solver This mode may have incompatibilities with newer features and will not affect
207. ee Submitting Solutions for Local Background and Remote Solve Manager RSM Processes p 50 Specify the following solution process options Default Update Option You can choose Run in Foreground This is the default manner of running where solutions are run within the current ANSYS Workbench session Run in Background Allows you to run the solution in the background on the local machine This option is only available for Solution cells which support background execution Submit to Remote Solve Manager Allows you to run the solution in the background either on the local computer or on one or more different computers If you submit to RSM the solution will continue to run even if you close the current ANSYS Workbench session If you select Submit to Remote Solve Manager you also have the following options Default Solve Manager The solve manager is the machine that is configured to manage the queues and compute servers to be used for the remote solution Any Solve Managers that are defined for RSM will appear in the drop down list You can choose one of those Solve Managers or you can specify the name of another machine Default Queue You can select from the queues that you have already defined for RSM Download Progress Information Controls whether the solver monitor periodically queries RSM for output files in order to display progress where applicable Default Progress Download Interval Specifies the perio
208. eeeeees 62 Submitting CFX Jobs to LSF via RSM isi ssssseoseesstavicsad aarensaiee Verapneun nist ccmsaseasaasitecegnaney sent 62 Submitting Polyflow Jobs to RSM cccccccccccessssssnsnecceceecessessneceeeeceesseeesnaeeeeceeeeseeesnnneeeeeeeenss 63 Submitting Fluent Jobs to RSM i svtinenavsrvpntdvacs sate dasransayannmeneisniant dur saus Goraniaanbenmisarasaenajeun s 63 Solution Properties Use Setup Launcher Settings ccsesssccccceeeeeeessneeceeeeseseeessnaeees 64 Submitting Fluent Jobs to HPC via RSM incswacysveuesdsyaisaravasinsessendeaviysosaieonygasavhartvenerayniaseveaencoeys 67 Submitting Fluent Jobs to PBS via RSM sy ssssin lt sas dvaressieraniasacdesknasiehonadaedestensCavonidacdeaxancechinabenayy 67 Submitting Fluent Jobs to LSF via RSM ssesseesessssssssseresssssssssreeessssssesrreesesssssssereeeesssssserreeess 68 Exiting a Project during an RSM Solution Cell Update sssssesssssesssssessssssessssressssreesssreessssreesssere 68 Using Journals ANG SCHDES secese ai ai aaa E E E A A a N taaa eaa 69 JOUNING aera e E E E E E E E a a a Aa 69 Recording and Playing a Journal ssessssssssssssesssssesssssressseresssseessstessssteesssressssreessseessssreessseres 70 Using the Command Window sssssssssssesssssesssssresssssressseresssereesssteessssteesssetesssereessereessssreesssree 71 SCHIPUING i ssccdeteiceseccsvessdessecedcessvedgeest resis NATEN EAEEREN EEEE svsvadersvernge EEEE NERE E PATE N ERE NER 71 Project File
209. efault none Applicable to RSM No Parallel Run Settings Number of Processors Default 1 Applicable to RSM No Interconnect default Applicable to RSM No Note You can enable Interconnect to be available for Polyflow RSM runs by enabling Tools gt Options gt Solution Process gt Show Advanced Solver Options This setting requires you to ensure that the remote Compute Servers can accept the Interconnect that you specify there is no automatic checking for such compatibility To learn what values are available see Starting Parallel ANSYS Fluent on a Windows System Using Command Line Options in the Fluent User s Guide MPI Type default Applicable to RSM No Note You can enable MPI Type to be available for Polyflow RSM runs by enabling Tools gt Options gt Solution Process gt Show Advanced Solver Options This setting requires you to ensure that the remote Compute Servers can accept the MPI Type that you spe cify there is no automatic checking for such compatibility 66 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench To learn what values are available see Starting Parallel ANSYS Fluent on a Windows System Using Command Line Options in the Fluent User s Guide Use Shared Memory Default Disabled Applicable to RSM No
210. efined Input Parameters 1 Within ICEM CFD choose Settings gt Workbench Parameters gt Workbench Input Parameters User defined 2 In the User Defined Workbench Input Parameters window check the Delete User Defined Input Parameter check box 3 Use the drop down menu to choose the name of the parameter you want to delete 4 Click Apply or OK Setting Output Parameters You can set Workbench Output parameters to unstruct mesh and pre mesh blocking quality metrics list the number of mesh errors and possible problems list the number of element and block types created You set the output parameters within the ICEM CFD application then view them in either Workbench or ICEM CFD Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 192 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems V Output Check Mesh Workbench Output Parameters 9 eae Waele Sree Set Workbench Output Parameters Duptcate elenert Mesh Ov put Quelty meincs Quality matiic Sutlace area hd Mesh types to check for metic Surface area Uncovered faces Misting rianal laces Periodic problems Volume oteniatons Blocking Output Pre Mesh quality Yes No Surface oriertations LINE_2 G AA o R a Delete al Pre Mesh Quelty output parameters TETRA_4 3 Penetrating elements TRLI G W Output Number of Blocks Disconnected bat elements Block typ
211. elements You can Interrupt or Abort an update by right clicking the Solution cell These options are available during foreground background and RSM updates ANSYS CFX has the following limitations when used with Remote Solve Manager RIF Flamelet cases are not supported Reconnect will not work after moving a project to another machine Only one copy of a saved project that is in the pending state can reconnect successfully You must manually save a project after a reconnect You cannot edit a run that is in progress You cannot perform a remote backup For runs that are submitted to a remote machine Serial and Local Parallel runs are always supported Other local parallel modes must be supported on the job host Distributed parallel is supported only for Compute Server clusters The default update interval for Display Monitors is 120 seconds Use the Download Progress Information and Progress Download Interval options under Tools gt Options gt Solution Process to enable disable polling or to change the polling interval The settings established here will also be visible in the Solution Process properties pane in ANSYS Workbench Note This monitoring of solution updates submitted to RSM has the following limitations When you use the Solution cell s properties field to set the frequency at which you poll the data this represents a maximum frequency In cases of network congestion or where large files are inv
212. ell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data From New in the context menu You can then select a connection to Icepak From the Icepak cell perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data To New in the context menu You can then select a connection to Results v 4 v B v C 2 0M Geometry 482 RA Setup v 4 7 8 y Results A 4 Geometry 3 e Solution v 4 Results Icepak Icepak results can be postprocessed in CFD Post by double clicking on the Results cell If you have more than one solution or your solution has changed you will need to update the Results cell If solution data is not transferred then Results cannot be launched Please see CFD Post help for more details 204 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Geometry ip Icepak Results 2 0M Geometry v e R2 Setup v 4 Geometry 3 Solution v 4 Results Icepak Thermal Results From Icepak to Mechanical Icepak results can be transferred to the following analysis types within ANSYS Workbench Static Structural Steady State Thermal Transient Structural or Transient Thermal To add an analysis type follow the procedure below 1 Add an Icepak system to the project schematic and perform an analysis on the model inside Icepak 3 Solution v 4 Icepak 2 Use one of the following ways to conn
213. eload file format is not a CFX Solver Input File for example a DEF file the Reload Options were not defined or did not contain a replacetype option you may need to modify the definition of the Mesh Reload Options as follows Example 1 Modifying the Mesh Reload Options If a definition file contains a mesh from a GTM file and is imported into a Setup cell the original mesh type is automatically changed to CFX Solverlnput file If the remeshing process is not explicitly told to import the GTM file as a GTM file the remeshing process assumes that the mesh is also a CFX Solver Input file rather than a GTM file This fails when the remeshing process runs This is a limitation and needs to be modified by hand To do this add a line similar to the following to the DEF file Mesh Reload Options replacetype GIM notransform false See Remeshing Tab in the CFX Pre User s Guide for details Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 139 ANSYS Workbench Systems Fluid Flow Fluent Fluent allows for fluid flow analysis of incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries You specify the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters in Fluent where the calculations are solved Use a Fluent fluid flow analysis system to apply a computational mesh
214. em that requires user input You could edit or define material models via the Engineering Data cell but this example assumes that the default materials will suffice Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 40 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working through a System v A 1 7 Static Structural 2 EngineeringData v 3 Geometry Liwe 4 Model Pj 5 Setup Fxg 6 amp Solution Tri 7 Results ey As noted earlier you typically work through the system from top to bottom Use the context menus for each cell to view and select operations that can be performed for that cell 1 Attach geometry to your system or build a new geometry in DesignModeler Right click the Geometry cell and select Import Geometry to attach an existing model or select New Geometry to launch DesignModeler For details see Defining your Simulation Geometry p 39 2 Define all loads and boundary conditions Right click the Setup cell and select Edit Mechanical will open Set up your analysis using that application s tools and features For more information on setting up and running specific Mechanical analyses see Analysis Systems p 135 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Workflow After introducing a new Fluid Flow analysis system to the project schematic and assigning an appropriate name the focus is typically directed to the Geometry cell because this is usually the fi
215. ems via the double click and drag and drop methods In this example several cells of the Structural Static system are also possible drop targets of the Modal system For more information see Creating and Linking a Second System p 43 The following Show Me Animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 34 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Adding Systems to the Project Schematic AV Unsaved Project Workbench faire tse Fie View Tools Unite Extensions Help f p Yg EIFI Project s Custom GUI si import 7 Reco Hydrod c a Hydrodynamic Time Response t IC Engine Linear Buckling BY Linear Suckling Samcef Magnetostatic Modal Modal Samcef Random Vibration Response Spectrum Rigid Dynamice Static f ructural E Static Sructural Samcef B Steady State Thermal GB Steacy State Thermal Samcef Thermal Electric Throughfiew s a Transient Structural EA Transient Structural Samcef Transient Thermal E Transient Thermal Samcef SSEEES Component Systems Custom Systems Design Exploration Show Progress Show 0 Messages N
216. en surface losses are enabled the double precision solver is recommended The workflow for an Icepak HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor analysis is as follows The Ansoft to Icepak connection can happen one of the following ways 1 Drag and drop a HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor system onto to the Project Schematic Import create the geometry in the Ansoft application Setup the problem and solve to obtain a solution for transfer into an Icepak system Connect the HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor Solution cell to the Icepak Setup cell Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 210 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Figure 4 Maxwell Transfer to Icepak Project Schematic vy xXx v 4 v B v Cc 2 Geometry v 2 Geometry V 4 3 Setup vY 4 E Sotin v Maxwel3DDesign1 2 w Setup v 4 3 Solution Y Icepak Geometry 2 From the Icepak cell you can perform a right mouse click and select Transfer Data From New in the context menu You can then select a connection to HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor or from the geometry cell perform a right click and select Transfer Data to New in the context menu to connect to Icepak Figure 5 A Coupled HFSS Icepak System v a v B 2 Geometry v 2 a Setup v 4 3 Setup va VA 3 2 Solution v 4 4 peA Solution v Icepak HFSS Design Double click on the Icepak cell to launch the Icepak application A
217. ench fatten Fle vew Toos Units Extensions Heb E Searc B 2olidtDynamics E Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyfiow E Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow E Fluid Flow crm Puid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow Folyfiow B HarmonicResponse B Hydrodynamic diffraction Hydrodynamic Time Resporse i 1C Engine Lineer Buckling Linear Buckling Samcef Magnetostatc E Modal E Modal samcef BB Random vibration n Response Spectrum BR Rigid Dynami GB Static Structural E atic Structural Samcef E steady state Thermal QB Steady State Thermal Samcef EN Thermal Eiectric Vew Al Customize show Progress show o messages Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 47 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab If you select Duplicate from the Model cell the Engineering Data and Geometry cells are shared allowing you to edit the Model cell in the duplicate system to investigate an alternative modeling approach All data in the Setup cell and below is copied from the original system and can be modified independently If you select Duplicate from the Setup cell the Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells are shared allowing you to edit the Setup cell in the duplicate system to investigate alternate loads and constraints All data in the cells below Setup is copied
218. ents that use the same geometry and model are represented with a link between the Geometry and Model cells of the systems Physics environments are typically represented as a link between a Solution cell of the originating system and the Setup cell of the receiving system For example a thermal condition is repres ented by a connection between the Solution cell of a thermal system and the Setup cell of a structural system e Information that is transferred from the Release 11 system to the current system includes model name model state physics type internal IDs for model mesh environment and answer set Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 79 Working in ANSYS Workbench Engineering Data file path material property suppression path solver files directory path solver type geometry preferences parameters Legacy dsdb files that do not contain an environment are imported as Mechanical Model systems Additional FE Modeler Import Details FE Modeler systems will be imported as standalone systems You can manually create any necessary links between systems but you will not have the data that FE Modeler may have created such as geometry If FE Modeler was associated with a Release 11 0 applet and the dsdb being imported does not contain any environments a link is established be
219. er definition Each input file added to an instance of the External Data system is represented as a coupling region for the associated coupling participant in the System Coupling setup Supported Input File Formats In order to use the External Data system as a coupling participant the ANSYS External Data File file format should be used For information regarding use of this file format see Importing an ANSYS Ex ternal Data File as Input p 161 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 173 ANSYS Workbench Systems Supported Data Types Data Types provided by External Data that are currently consumable by the System Coupling system include Temperature and Heat Rate Note that in the XML file transferred from the External Data System to System Coupling if the units of the coordinates in are not all consistent an error will be reported External Model The External Model system enables you to import solid and shell finite element meshes into Workbench These meshes can then be imported directly into the Mechanical application When used in this manner geometry is automatically synthesized from specified meshes and made available inside the Mechanical application The imported files must have been generated in the Mechanical APDL application in common database cdb format See the Mesh Based Geometry section i
220. er note that the license preferences set for your local machine the RSM Client may not be the same as the license preferences set for the remote cluster machine the Compute Server In this case the Compute Server license preferences will be used for all jobs For more information see Establishing User Licensing Preferences e When design points are configured to be updated via RSM the Solution cell cannot also be updated via RSM In order to update design points via RSM change the Solution cell update settings by setting the Update Option Solution Process property to Run in Foreground For special circumstances however the update of both the Solution cell and design points via RSM can be enabled For assistance with enabling this functionality and configuring your system to support go to the Support page of the ANSYS Customer Portal and submit an online support request For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Customer Portal go to http support ansys com docinfo 1 First configure RSM with the desired solve manager s and queue s to manage remote solutions Once set up these solve managers and queues can be used for all subsequent remote solutions See the Remote Solve Manager User s Guide for detailed information on setting up RSM 2 Right click the Parameter Set bar and select Properties to view the Design Point Update Process settings If the Properties view is already visible click the Parameter
221. er Jobs property for the Compute Server set on the General tab of the RSM Compute Server Properties dialog specifies how many jobs can be run on the Compute Server at one time and takes precedence over the Maximum Number of Jobs property for the RSM Client machine For example if you set this property to 16 on the RSM Client but the maximum number of jobs is set to 10 on the Compute Server only 10 jobs can run concurrently the remaining 6 jobs will stay in the queue until resources become available and the next group of jobs can be submit ted 5 For the Component Execution Mode property select one of the following options Serial All components participating in the update will run in serial mode Parallel All components participating in the update which support this setting will run in parallel mode If you select Parallel gt The Max Number of Processes per Job property allows you to specify the maximum number of processes to be used in the solver for each job in the update For jobs being sent to a cluster the value entered for this property also determines how many cores are allocated on the cluster for each job gt For jobs not being sent to a cluster the Max Number of Processes per Job property has no ef fect on core allocation The resource allocation is determined by theMaximum Number of Jobs property in the Compute Server used to submit the job RSM considers each design point update job as a single job although
222. er Set Tab or Parameters Tab eesscceeeessseeeeesseeeeeessaneeees 94 Working with Design Points in the Parameter Set or Parameters Tab sssceceeessneeeeessneeeeeeeseeeeees 95 Parameters crssccdececazceccaenivesiashestekashdedecasagcnsdeeadecs aE E EKES INS EES S SEEE TE EN S NEE as i tai 96 C stom Parameters aacra a AEE AAR EA A AE EA R AAA A AE E E A ETE EA AAA EES 96 DESIGN POINTS scindinecnaeacecd ea ipasi aE NEEESE aE NEE EEE EEEE N sin cg ap E e i a 101 Updating Desig POINS cscri niei ii ai ai aai aaa 103 Design POE Update Ord fssacsis iiini r eri a a a a erii 104 Activating and Exporting Design Points sesessssssssseressrsssserereresssssssereeesssssseereresesssssereeeeeessssseert 105 Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM ssssssssssssssssesssssesssssreesssrresssseessssreessseres 107 Aborting or Interrupting an RSM Design Point Update eee ee eeseeeeeessneeeeessneeeeeessneeseesanees 111 Exiting a Project during an RSM Design Point Update eee eeeeeesnnceceessneeeeeessneeereesaaeeseeses 112 Note for Using Windows LSF Scheduler iss sviacs cicsueanuanedgaiieratanvcongdia enatgsaniionehes srs thantuonghed Mantte 112 Product Specific Limitations scccisieccscissavecsecsescaseeezcvevscseceadnendevsesaenscecesdevsadeaescadeebdevevuaenecedeasies 113 Reserving Licenses for a Design Point Update eeeserceecessrcceseessnseeseeseeeeesessnseeseesseeeeseesonees 114 Tracking IG SINS
223. er to use either an upstream Solution cell the Initial Values definitions on the Define Run dialog of CFX Solver Manager or the initial conditions from the current state of the Setup cell Set the default update option for the solution cell Controls whether the update proceeds as a Background Task or a Foreground Task the default Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 22 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options e During a foreground update the user interface strictly limits what you can do you cannot edit other cells save quit etc During a background update the user interface allows other operations and updates on other cells to take place and you can also save and quit the project After saving and quitting the solver run will still continue You can re open the project and use the Reconnect button to access data that was put into batch mode Upon opening a project ANSYS Workbench automatically retrieves the data for any completed background update without the need for you to press the Reconnect button If you decline to save the project before exiting this solver data will be discarded and will not be accessible in future ANSYS Workbench sessions A foreground update that is in progress can be made into a background update by using the Switch Active Solution to Background context menu option This action will
224. ere the bar could be placed 0 1 with the maximum size based on the same criteria as Relative Bar Width Show Linear Interpolation of Lines causes the ends of a line plot to extend to the edge of the chart when the plot is not against a discrete axis Symbol Outline Colors sets the color used to outline displayed symbols Symbol Size sets the size of displayed symbols in pixels 1 16 Line Width sets the width of lines including lines outlining bars in pixels 1 10 Note In most cases properties are not shown if they are not applicable to the item selected However Show Linear Interpolation of Lines is displayed whether the axis is discrete or continuous but it only applies in cases of continuous axes The option will have no effect if you set it when the plot is displayed on a discrete axis Chart Properties Most charts have a few general properties that appear under a Chart entry in the Properties view when you click on the background of a chart and select Edit Properties When plot line rendering is controlled generally rather than per variable as for spider charts for example the Style display properties will also appear when you edit the chart properties Chart properties may include e Title chart title that appears in the Chart view title bar Chart Type allows some charts to be displayed as another chart type e Display Percentages turns on percentage values on pie charts 84 Relea
225. ermal results from Icepak to Mechanical 205 Thermal Electric analysis 135 148 Thermal Stress analysis 240 Throughflow analysis 148 Toolbar File menu 259 Help menu 265 Tools menu 263 Options 13 Units menu 264 View menu 262 Views messages 251 outline view 248 progress 251 properties 249 table 250 viewing files 247 Toolbox 1 9 245 246 Tools menu 263 transfer data 268 Transient Structural 148 Transient Structural analysis 135 Transient Thermal analysis 135 149 troubleshooting 89 TurboGrid analysis 238 Tutorial Icepak in Workbench 212 Tutorials 275 types of parameters 96 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 284 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates U Vista CPD analysis 239 Vista RTD analysis 239 Vista TFanalysis 239 units base and common units 11 configuring 10 custom unit systems 13 Ww in parameters 96 window layout 262 menu 264 workflow predefined unit systems 12 Fluid Flow analysis 41 selecting 264 Mechanical analysis 40 update 265 workspaces 1 updating design points 103 activating and exporting 105 update order 104 using RSM 107 updating systems 265 user_files subdirectory 72 using ANSYS Workbench 49 246 adding a system 33 building analyses 38 charts 49 deleting a system 48 duplicating a system 46 journals and scripts 69 linking a system 43 moving a system 4
226. ernalData_files ExternalData_results_File2 txt C ExternalData_Files ExternalData_results_file3 txt C ExternalData_Files ExternalData_results_file txt C ExternalData_Files ExternalData_results_fileS txt Click here to add a file 4 In the Properties view set the properties of the files If the files are of the same or similar format you can make use of multi selection of the files for quick settings of common properties a Multi select the desired files in the Outline view You will see e A value when that value is the same for all selected files A blank field when values differ between selected files A yellow field when a value is required but is not currently specified for any of the files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 164 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Outline of Schematic 42 External Data C ExternalData_files ExternalData_results_fileS txt C ExternalData_files ExternalData_results_File1 txt C ExternalData_files ExternalData_results_File2 txt C ExternalData_files ExternalData_results_File3 txt C ExternalData_files ExternalData_results_File txt Click here to add a file 4 Properties of File Multiple files Applies to selectedfiles vy xX 4 B amp
227. es Delete all Quality metrics output parameters Chock Weskc Posciie Poabiens Numba of Al Blocks Output Number of Elements Muliple edges Number of Mapped Blocks Element types F Tiange bones 7 Number of Free Blocks Number of Points 2 single edges M Number of Swept Blocks Numba of Lines Single euttiple edges a ese Kiasilsinne nikoa moih F Delete all Number of Blocks output parameters Numba of Quads M Single edges Number of Hexahecra Delaunay violation Numba of Tetra eda Overlapping elements Number of Prisms Noremanitold vertices Number of Pyramids Uncormected vertices Delete all Number of Elements output parameters T Delete Setting Output Parameters 1 Within ICEM CFD choose Settings gt Workbench Parameters gt Workbench Output Parameters 2 Optionally Click the Output quality metrics check box to select quality metrics a Use the Quality Metrics drop down menu to choose the metric you want to set b Click the radio buttons to select the mesh types to check for the metric 3 Optionally click the Output number of elements check box a Check the boxes next to the element types for which you want you want an output 4 Optionally click the Output Check Mesh check box a Check the boxes next to the errors you want to have tallied in the output results ICEM CFD will perform an analysis as part of the meshing process and list the results in the Output window and in the Workbench Parameters window 5
228. es See Response Spectrum Ana lysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a response spectrum ana lysis in the Mechanical application 4 On the Toolbar click Update Project Rigid Dynamics You can perform a rigid dynamic analysis that specifically uses the ANSYS Rigid Dynamics solver This type of analysis is used to determine the dynamic response of an assembly of rigid bodies linked by joints and springs You can use this type of analysis to study the kinematics of a robot arm or a crankshaft system for example You will configure your rigid dynamics analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS Rigid Dynamics solver to compute the solution 1 Add a Rigid Dynamics analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 146 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your transient structural analysis using the Me
229. esenseeseesenseesesseseeseesseseeseesenees 124 Sending Project Changes to the EKM Repository cssssccscessnrceseessnseeseeseneeesesseseeeeesseseeseesonees 126 Getting Project Changes from the EKM Repository esssssessssssesssssessssseessssreesssrressseresssereessssresssene 127 Managing EKM Repository Project Changes cccsssescccesserceesessnceeseesenseesesseneeseessneeeserseeeesoses 129 Importing Repository TASS i caisineasinen eaottesipwe satan Rorunsbnrgouanenldeacnanaiegd taenenaneds amauta agn a ueRs 131 Troubleshooting ass ae en a etic a a teeta a ati ated a sands eva bee ls kaS a 133 ANSYS Workbench SYSTEMS sasaat onion kaea have amodioirndinauingnaelu reread EEA aE nEs 135 Analysis System S soseer ieoa a EE E EE e E a a Nas des 135 Design ASSESSMENT 2 03 dees eiii E RE ER R A E a a i 136 ENCES ansaa n a E aE E E eae na See peed eal meee Shad a a N E O epee ss 138 Expli it MOR CS knne eau een ease pzanpctv oaa EE E EEE E sacha EE E EEEE EE E e 138 Fluid Flow CEX aerisire a a au aa a i aa aaa 138 Fluid Flow Fluenti arierirraia iieii t OEN R ARANEA N AOAR AE O a NANON AEAN 140 Fluid Flow PolyflOW erinan aE E E A E N EEA E e E a ael 140 Harmonic Response e elana lakes ee nenene O EOE da SSN EEEo EEEE ERASER EA SENE EEOC Na Eaa ATES 141 Hydrodynamic Diffraction ssir ses esrin iesenii ioii orai ie eoe nanie EES T edia eE 142 Hydrodynamic Time RESPONSE sissie daei aii inn i EE E A AE E A E aS 143 IG ENGINE ia as ea
230. eset the tab by going to View gt Reset Workspace Applications Do Not Start After Crash On Linux if ANSYS Workbench applications will not launch after an abnormal exit such as a crash run the following utility SINSTALL v150 aisol wbcleanup Wobbly Desktop Effect Causes Crashes The Wobbly desktop effect on Linux may cause ANSYS Workbench or its applications to crash This effect is on by default on some Linux platforms Make sure the effect is turned off System Freezes After Certain GUI Operations There are known issues involving UI operations if you are using the KDE 3 5 desktop environment on Linux systems when running ANSYS Workbench products If using KDE 3 5 and you open a drop down list in the Details View you must select an entry from the list before performing any other UI operation or the product may hang As an alternative use the GNOME desktop environment Startup or Graphics Problems To minimize graphics problems always verify that you are running the latest graphics drivers provided by your computer s hardware manufacturer If you are not you may see the following message An error occurred while setting up the graphics window Please ensure that you have the latest drivers from your graphics card manufacturer If the error persists you may need to decrease the graphics acceleration For more information please see the Troubleshooting section in the ANSYS Workbench help Linux If you are running ANSYS Workbench on Lin
231. esign Point Update Order is applicable ONLY if you also selected Geometry in the Pre RSM Foreground Update field This setting will take effect the next time you create a new project See Updating Design Points for more information Show Advanced Solver Options Makes the Interconnect and MPI Type Parallel Run Settings available for Fluent RSM runs Note that these settings require you to ensure that the remote Compute Servers can accept the Interconnect and MPI Type that you specify there is no automatic checking for such compatibility Exported Design Point Allows you to specify how an update will be performed for exported design points Select one of the following options Update parameters Only parameters are updated for exported design points Default value Update full project Full project is updated for exported design points Repository Specify the following settings for managing simulation data in an ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager EKM repository Check for update upon opening a repository project Specify whether Workbench upon opening a project that is saved to an EKM repository will check for changes to the project e Possible values are Always Ask Always Check and Never Check Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 20 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options If you select the Save m
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233. eters see Parameters p 96 Working with Design Points in the Parameter Set or Parameters Tab A design point is a set of input parameter values and corresponding output parameter values associated with an individual parameterized project definition Each design point is a single set of parameter values representing one design alternative Basically you can think of a design point as a snapshot of your design given a set of parameter values where output parameter values have been calculated by an update of the project Design points allow you to perform what if studies and are also used by ANSYS DesignXplorer for design exploration Most of your work with design points will occur in the Table view of the Parameter Set tab and or a Parameters tab In both tabs the Table view provides a tabular view called the Table of Design Points From the Table of Design Points view you can view design points and perform the following operations From the Table of Design Points view you can perform the following operations Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 95 Working with Parameters and Design Points create new design points duplicate existing design points enter or change the input parameter values for design points e delete existing design points except for the Current design point update design points either
234. etween blade design advanced analysis and manufacturing Used in combination with ANSYS analysis software users can rapidly evaluate the performance of a component BladeGen model files can be imported into DesignModeler using the BladeEditor feature BladeEditor provides a seamless path to both structural and fluid analysis which enables the user to efficiently transition from preliminary blade design to full 3 D viscous flow analysis and finally to the users native CAD system To run BladeGen drag the BladeGen component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox then edit the Blade Design cell For more information on ANSYS BladeGen see the ANSYS BladeGen help To run BladeEditor drag the Geometry component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox Edit the Geometry cell to invoke DesignModeler Inside DesignModeler BladeEditor features will be available depending on your license preferences To set the license preferences for running BladeEditor follow the instructions in Configuring the ANSYS BladeModeler License For more information on ANSYS BladeEditor see ANSYS BladeEditor help CFX ANSYS CFX enables you to perform fluid flow analysis of incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries You import meshes specify the materials boundary conditions and solution parameters solve the calculations vie
235. ework 2 unloading geometry 3 ic_unload_tetin 4 ic_empty_tetin 5 unloading mesh 6 ic_unload_mesh 7 unloading blocking 8 ic_hex_unload_blocking 9 delete empty parts 10 ic_delete_empty_parts K V Record after current All commands Do range Insert Delete one Delete all Delete range Renumber Always update V Ignore errors Done For more information see the Replay Scripts section in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 187 ANSYS Workbench Systems Setting Parameters Setting Input parameters in Workbench enables you to pass parameters to ICEM CFD and other down stream analysis tools The interaction of parameters between applications provides you with greater flexibility and capabilities to run optimization and what if scenarios For more information about using parameters in Workbench see Working with Parameters and Design Points p 93 Parameters may be set globally or individually with individual parameters taking precedence over global values The parameters you can set are Input Parameters Parameters for all existing curves surfaces or edges Mesh parameters for parts User defined Input Parameters e Output parameters Setting Input Parameters Clicking the box to the right of certain Meshing Input parameters enables
236. example an application cannot release a license in the middle of a solve operation the license cannot be released until the solve operation is completed Single license sharing applies only to licenses of the same type e g Mechanical Choosing this option does not affect your ability to use licenses of different types simultaneously e g Mechanical for one task and Fluid Dynamics for another Because this method is the default you do not have to take any action to run this way Explanation of License Type and Examples License type is primarily by license feature It is possible to use both a Mechanical and an Emag license within a single ANSYS Workbench session It is also possible to use both a Multiphysics and a Mechanical license within a single ANSYS Workbench session The first license checked out within a session will be based on your preferences and what capabilities are being requested For all applications other than the first subsequent one opened within ANSYS Workbench ANSYS licensing will first look at what other licenses are opened within this session These subsequent license requests will look at sharing first to satisfy their request do any other licenses being used within this session fulfill the needed capabilities If yes share an existing license If not preferences are used and a new different license is checked out Example 1 You have one license for Multiphysics and one license for Mechanical with Multiphy
237. f the Mesh in the Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX system in this example Failure States If a particular action fails ANSYS Workbench provides a visual indication as well Failure states are de scribed below Refresh Failed Refresh Required ieee The last attempt to refresh cell input data failed and the cell remains in a refresh required state Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 257 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Update Failed Update Required Pat The last attempt to update the cell and calculate output data failed and the cell remains in an update required state Update Failed Attention Required z The last attempt to update the cell and calculate output data failed The cell remains in an attention required state If an action results in a failure state you can view any related error messages in the Messages view by clicking the Show Messages button on the lower right portion of the ANSYS Workbench tab Cell Properties Every cell in ANSYS Workbench has various properties associated with it Most of these properties are specific to the type of system type of cell and state of the cell and are generally documented with the specific application documentation However some cell properties are common across many cells regardless of type of system or cell state Those properties are described here
238. face UI elements such as buttons in the Workbench Toolbar or entries in custom menus and create the scripts that enable them and create new systems to facilitate interaction with the Workbench Project Schematic Analysis Systems One way to start an analysis in ANSYS Workbench is to select an analysis system from the Toolbox When you select one of these analysis types the corresponding system will appear in the Project Schematic with all the necessary components of that type of analysis Some analysis types offer different solvers noted in parentheses The features available can differ from one solver to another Available analysis systems include Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow CFX Fluid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow Polyflow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffraction Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 135 ANSYS Workbench Systems Hydrodynamic Time Response IC Engine Linear Buckling and Linear Buckling Samcef Magnetostatic Modal and Modal Samcef Random Vibration Response Spectrum Rigid Dynamics Static Structural and Static Structural Samcef Steady State Thermal and Steady State Thermal Samcef Thermal Electric Throughflow Transient Structural and Transient Structural Samcef Transient Thermal and Transient Thermal Samcef When you either double click
239. file Import Mesh File Allows you to import read only meshes for downstream application use You may browse to local files using the Browse option or to files stored on an EKM repository using the Browse from Repository option For more information on Browse from Repository see Importing Repository Files p 131 Duplicate Duplicates the Mesh system The Geometry cell is shared and all data associated with the Mesh cell is copied to the second system Transfer Data To New Enables the transfer of a mesh from the Mesh system into a downstream system as follows Autodyn Inserts downstream Autodyn system and generates a data transfer connection cmdb file from the Mesh cell to the Setup cell of the Autodyn system CFX Inserts downstream CFX system and generates a data transfer connection cmdb file from the Mesh cell to the Setup cell of the CFX system FE Modeler Inserts downstream FE Modeler system and generates a data transfer connection cmdb file from the Mesh cell to the Model cell of the FE Modelerr system Fluent Inserts a downstream Fluent system and generates a data transfer connection msh file from the Mesh cell to the Setup cell of the Fluent system Mechanical APDL Inserts a downstream Mechanical APDL system and generates a data transfer connection inp file from the Mesh cell to the Analysis cell of the Mechanical APDL system Polyflow Inserts a downstream Polyflow system and generates a data transfer
240. formation 74 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Project File Management Most files from previous releases can be imported using File gt Import The import operation will create systems cells and links to represent the previous release project For more information on importing legacy databases see Importing Legacy Databases p 78 Archiving Projects If you want to send a project to a colleague or to ANSYS Technical Support or need to package all of the files for archiving or other purposes choose File gt Archive In the Save Archive dialog box navigate to the directory where you want to save the file and select the archive type Workbench Project Archive wbpz ora Zip zip tar gz file You will also need to specify which optional items you want to archive such as result solution items imported files and items in the user files directory The Workbench Options dialog allows you to specify the compression level for wopz archives For more information see Project Management p 14 When you import an external file Workbench archives it by adding it to the user_files directory However if the external file refers to other files for example as when a CAD assembly is linked to the CAD parts the system is not able to place all of the necessary referenced files in the user_files directory In order to make the referenced files part of the archive you must copy them manually into theuser_files directory
241. frame of reference The Table and Preview panes are disabled so you cannot specify data types or preview data Mechanical APDL CDB files can be added as a master mesh in the External Data system The file must be generated using blocked formatting see CDWRITE in the Mechanical APDL Command Reference Files generated in unblocked format are not supported Only NBLOCK and EBLOCK data will be read from the file Elements defined in the EBLOCK command should also have a corresponding element type and number ET command defined in the CDB file No load data transfer information is read The following element types are ignored during reading of the file Solid168 e Targe169 170 e Contal71 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 e SURF152 153 154 156 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 160 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Data transfer information must be defined in separate files which will also need to be added to the same External Data system These files must have a column providing node identifiers that match the node IDs defined in the Mechanical APDL CDB file If the data transfer file contains element nodal values then both node and element identifier columns need to be defined Element values are not supported Note An element defined in the CDB file will be ignored by the common mapping utility if any of the below con
242. full simulation capabilities of Polyflow The Polyflow Blow Molding system provides only the application specific capabilities of Polyflow that are suited to blow molding simulations The Polyflow Extrusion system provides only the application specific capabilities of Polyflow that are suited to extrusion simulations To use a Polyflow Blow Molding Polyflow or Extrusion Polyflow fluid flow component system perform the following steps 1 Add a Polyflow Blow Molding Polyflow or Extrusion Polyflow fluid flow component system by dragging the system from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the system in the Toolbox The component system is comprised of two cells a Setup cell and a Solution cell 2 Import a mesh by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Import Mesh in the context menu that opens You can merge scale translate and rotate the mesh by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Polyfuse in the context menu that opens 3 You can define your preferences for Polydata by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Preferences and Polydata in the context menu that opens 4 Double click the Setup cell to open Polydata where you can specify the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters Alternatively you can import a previously saved Polyflow Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential informatio
243. g described below will apply If you are updating multiple design points and the update for one of the design points fails the Update Failed Update Required k icon will show for the failed design point but the next design point update will begin immediately In this case the Messages view will open automatically showing the error message for the design point s that failed A failure summary dialog will appear when the update process has completed if you see this dialog be sure to review the error messages in the Messages view for details on which design point s failed Design Point Update Order By default design points are solved in the order in which they appear in the Table of Design Points As each design point is updated it begins from the parameter values associated with DPO Current When updating design points it may be more efficient to update design points starting from parameter values from the previous design point rather than starting from DPO each time For example If DP2 has the same geometry as DP1 but both of these differ from DPO then updating design points in order would save the computational cost of updating both the geometry AND the mesh for the DP2 You can specify how the design points will be updated from the Properties view of the Parameter Set bar Right click the Parameter Set bar and select Properties to view the Design Point Update Order settings Update from Current will cause each design poi
244. ght clicking the Setup cell and clicking Edit in the context menu that opens Alternatively you can import a previously saved Polyflow data file by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Import Polyflow Dat in the context menu that opens You have the option of specifying material data by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Polymat in the context menu that opens 6 You can define your preferences for Polyflow by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Preferences and Polyflow in the context menu that opens 7 Run the Polyflow calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Update in the context menu that opens You can check the status of the solver during or after the calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polydiag in the context menu that opens You can open the listing file to see what Polyflow has done during or after the calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Listing Viewer in the context menu that opens 8 Analyze the results of the calculations in CFD Post by right clicking the Results cell and clicking Edit in the context menu that opens You can generate plots of the solution data by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polycurve in the context menu that opens You can statistically postprocess the results of the solution data by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polystat in the context menu that opens For detailed information on working with
245. h including connections between systems For the Mechanical application systems you will see the following Setup options in addition to the common options Edit Launches the Mechanical application with the geometry loaded and with cells mapped to their respective tree locations in the Mechanical application For CFX systems you will see the following Setup options in addition to the common options Edit Launches CFX Pre Import Case Imports an existing case file containing physics data region and mesh information for your analysis For Fluent systems you will see the following Setup options in addition to the common options Edit Launches ANSYS Fluent Import Case Imports an existing Fluent case file Solution From the Solution cell you can access the Solution branch of your application and you can share solution data with other downstream systems for instance you can specify the solution from one analysis as input conditions to another analysis If you have an analysis running as a remote process you will see the Solution cell in a pending state until the remote process completes See the discussion on Understanding Cell States p 255 below For the Mechanical application systems you will see the following Setup options in addition to the common options described earlier Edit Launches the Mechanical application open to the Solution branch Delete Deletes the Solution and Results cell Deleting the solu
246. h Systems Set Up the Excel Calculator Adding a File Drag and drop a Microsoft Office Excel system template on to the Project Schematic Right click on the Analysis system select Add File and browse to the Excel file that you have prepared 1 ix Microsoft Office Excel Edit Configuration Microsoft Office Excel Add File 33 Duplicate F Update Refresh Reset albi Rename Properties Quick Help Then right click on the Analysis system and select Edit Configuration to review the list of named ranges retrieved from the Excel file For each listed named range check the Input or Output column in order to publish the range as an input parameter or an output parameter in the Workbench project Return to the Project Schematic the Microsoft Office Excel is linked to the Parameter Set bar Macro Property Usage If the calculation in Excel requires the execution of a macro select the added file in the outline and check its Use a Macro property in the Properties View Then enter the name of the macro in the Macro Name property Note If a button is used to start the calculation and you do not know the name of the macro as sociated with it right click the button and select Assign Macro to discover the name to use Cut Copy Paste Edit Text Grouping gt i Order gt f The project is ready to create Design Points and Design Exploration studies Release 15 0 SAS IP
247. h system with numbers for new data always being incremented from the last number in the file If any data was removed the associ ated numbers for that system would be missing from the file even if new data was added As of release 14 5 new data is numbered so that whenever possible there are no gaps in the data numbers in the file This change may break scripts that read column data numbers Any file using the Delimited format type must not con tain the delimited character s at the beginning of each line Length Unit The unit system in which source point locations are defined Coordinate System Type Specifies the nature of the source point locations Options include Cartesian X Y Z or Cylindrical R theta Z The default value is Cartesian Average Data at Midside Nodes If Yes the data at Midside nodes if not specified is calculated as average of data specified at corner nodes Note This property is only available when Format Type is Delimited or User Defined and cdb file is chosen as Master The format specification used here is drawn from the C format specification Table 6 Properties View Analytical Transformation Section Property Description X Y Z Coordin Enables you to apply scaling factors or functions to the correspond ate ing column Data Type selected in the Table of File view For ex ample to scale all values for the X Coordinate column by 90 change the X Co
248. h the cells in the system generally from top to bottom until you have completed all the required steps for your analysis In most cases data flows from top to bottom through the system as well For example in a Mechanical system the geometry must be defined before you can define the model the Model cell uses the geometry defined in the Geometry cell as its input Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 38 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working through a System Because the workflows for different types of analyses differ to some degree we have included two typical examples of working with analysis systems one for a mechanical analysis see Basic Mechanical Analysis Workflow p 40 and one for a fluid flow analysis see Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Work flow p 41 Defining your Simulation Geometry All analysis systems and several component systems including Geometry Meshing and Mechanical Model begin with a geometry definition step You can define the geometry differently depending on the type of simulation you are running In most cases you will use the Geometry cell Via the Geometry cell you can Create a geometry from scratch in DesignModeler e Import an existing geometry From neutral formats like IGES STEP Parasolid ACIS From CAD files on disk From an active CAD session that is already running on the same machine Fo
249. han ical application If you have a Mechanical APDL system linked to the LS DYNA system and you attempt to launch Mechanical APDL using an ANSYS LS DYNA license commercial or academic you may see the following error in the Mechanical APDL output window Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 153 ANSYS Workbench Systems FATAL Parallel capability is not valid for this product If you see this message set the number of processors for Mechanical APDL to 1 Tools gt Options gt Mechanical APDL You will then be able to run Mechanical APDL and solve an ANSYS LS DYNA analysis External Data The External Data system enables you to import data from text files and feed that data into a Mechan ical application or a System Coupling component system You need to specify the data format in order to process the files in the External Data tab This information can then be transferred to a downstream Mechanical application where the data can be applied as loads in an analysis Note If a file imported into External Data is updated and you want systems connected to external data to use the updated data then you must manually re read the data and update the Ex ternal Data and downstream systems Care is consequently required when attempting to use parameters and design points with projects that include External Data
250. hart Properties ar feuseec i calesseOeencdces va celia skendacds a des Ed ena E EE E eaa ETE a a TS aa 82 Chart Zoom Pan and Rotate aeoea erriten aAA ANEA EAEE AAAA EAA ASEENA ENEE TOA Seek LANAKEN LAASTENS EANA 85 Using the Triad sse eraen eier e EE EEEa RAEE EE AETA EE A ads ets cnet 85 Saving a Chatt piisa r e E eE E a E E EEE a EE T TA 85 Working with Project Reports eesssssesssssessssseessssressseseesssstesssseesssetesssereesssseesssreesssetessssreesseeessseresssesee 86 Using Hel vice cast euptosateahare cot nu a E EE A EEEa TE toni EEA E EAEE AARE EA 87 Troubleshooting sinsice aiiai a a aa a ii aea 89 Problemi SitUatiohS raoran iTar erain EEE EEA AEE IKEEN OE EEA ENEE A aT 89 Startup Or Graphics Pr bleMS csisis scc desecesissersesedesedavaghenctealedsend stendenadesncsdichoncieeledeensieterdeccdecnsecersieces 90 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information iv of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates User s Guide LIMITATIONS seenen a a a cs canaa setcannealed a catia E a E eaeapas 91 Error Messages etnisen ains n Neca EEEE EEE EE E EAE E EEEE EREE 91 Working with Parameters and Design Points esssssssssssssssssseesssesessssreesssstesssereessssreesssttesssereessseessssreesssees 93 The Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab ssavsctsvousadednotnnsdevtnasevsteuan suns denssr ea wasn esta sues deetiasaevansiadteatnasecind 93 Working with Parameters in the Paramet
251. hart types Each chart type has editable display properties The following chart topics are discussed Chart Types Setting Chart Properties Chart Zoom Pan and Rotate Using the Triad Saving a Chart Chart Types Although the content of a chart will be tailored to the application that is displaying the chart there are a standard set of charts that you might see in Workbench These include XY Plot Lines points steps bars splines scatter or shaded regions can be plotted XYZ Plot Lines points bars lines splines scatter or surfaces can be plotted Pie Chart Displays multiple variables as corresponding segments in rings on the pie Spider Chart Similar type of display as the pie chart in multiple dimensions Good for displaying between 3 and 10 variables Can usually be displayed as a Parallel Coordinate plot also Parallel Coordinate Plot Provides a graph to display variables design points etc using parallel Y axes to represent all of the inputs and outputs Selecting an axis allows you to filter the variables shown by dragging the arrows at the ends of the axis variables with points outside of the axis range will be eliminated from the chart Can usually be displayed as a Spider chart also Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 81 Working in ANSYS Workbench Correlation Matrix Allows you
252. he Geometry cell option Use Associativity is On its default setting Part Reference IDs are stored in a Workbench database and remain persistent in ICEM CFD even if the topology of the geometry is changed Transfer Data to New Enables the transfer of data from an ICEM CFD project to downstream data in tegrated system projects such as gt Fluent gt CFX gt FE Modeler Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 181 ANSYS Workbench Systems gt Polyflow Mechanical APDL Duplicate Update Refresh Reset Rename Properties and Add Edit Note These standard actions are described in System Header Context Menu Options p 270 An additional property is Create Subset s from Named Selection If this option is set then overlapping named selections are transferred to multiple subsets instead of to exclusive parts This enables the creation of geometry subsets instead of parts allowing you to decide which part the geometry entity point curve surface should be associated to When this option is disabled each geometry is assigned to only one part thereby losing association with other Named Selections which are mapped to parts Parameters cell optional The Parameters cell enables you to see and edit Input and Output parameters for ICEM CFD Creating an CEM CFD Component You can create an ICEM CFD
253. he Table of Design Points available only if parameters are in use and multiple design points exist Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 271 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Update Project Refreshes input data and generates required output data for all cells in the project If a project contains multiple design points this option updates only the current design point Note If you use this option and the project is being updated remotely via RSM only the systems and cells above the Parameter Set bar will be submitted to RSM If needed DesignXplorer systems can be further updated once the remote project update is completed For more information see Submitting Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Up date p 49 Add to Custom You can set up one or more systems with all appropriate connections that represents a project or collection of systems you frequently work with Use this option to add this collection to your custom templates for easy reuse New system type Select a new type of system to add to the project Systems added in this manner will appear as inde pendent systems with no connections to existing systems The choices are the same as you would see in the Toolbox Show Connections Bundled Select this option to show multiple links connecting two systems bundled together in a
254. he Workbench Tools gt Options dialog and will be used the next time you open a repository project If you do not select this check box ANSYS Workbench will check for project updates according to the preference set in the Options dialog For details on configuring how Workbench checks for project updates see Repository p 20 e Click Yes Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 127 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM This project is a repository project Do you want to check the repository for update E Save my choice and don t ask this question again 3 If there are changes to the repository version of the project the Get Changes from Repository dialog will ask if you want to download the changes to your local project Specify whether or not you want to download the changes Select the Create backup of local project check box if you want to save a copy of the project before downloading the changes Note that the backup project will not be under repository control e Click OK The copy of this project in the EKM repository Repository ProjectOnly wbpz has recent changes Do not get changes Get changes Vv Create backup of local project The backup of the project won t keep repository information OK Cancel For a project that is already open you can also manually
255. he project you can resume the update of the pending jobs to reconnect and download the results If you do save the project before exiting e Retrieved results will be saved to the project e RSM jobs that are queued and running will continue to run after you exit e Jobs for which the results have been saved will show a Status of Finished and the Finished icon 4 in the RSM List view the asterisk on the icon indicates that the job has also been released e Jobs for which results have not yet been saved are not released upon exit When you reopen the project you can resume update of the pending jobs to reconnect and download the results Using Journals and Scripts ANSYS Workbench offers the ability to record the actions you perform via the GUI which we refer to as journaling Journals are recorded as Python based scripts You can modify these scripts or create new ones which we refer to as scripting Together these capabilities allow you to quickly and easily replay analyses you ve already run via recorded journals as well as to extend functionality automate repetitive analyses and run analyses in batch mode For detailed instructions on using journaling and scripting as well as a complete list of all available data containers namespaced commands and data types see the Workbench Scripting Guide Related Topics Journaling Scripting Journaling A journal is a record of all operations that have modified data during your sess
256. here is resized and floated as before For more information on specific views see Views within Tabs p 245 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 3 Overview The Project Tab When you open a project in ANSYS Workbench it opens to the Project tab The Project tab is just one of many tabs that can be opened in Workbench but it is the main workspace in which you will build your analysis Like all tabs the Project tab is made up of different views that can be reconfigured according the in formation you want to see By default the Project tab is comprised of the Toolbox view and the Project Schematic view Extensions Help Refresh Project Update Project Project Schematic E Analysis Systems Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics H Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow Fluid Flow CFX Fluid Flow Fluent CA Fluid Flow Polyflow Harmonic Response AY Hydrodynamic Diffracion Hydrodynamic Time Response IC Engine Show Progress Show 4Messages Related Topics The Toolbox in the Project Tab The Project Schematic The Toolbox in the Project Tab The Workbench Toolbox view contains the types of data you can add to your project In the Project tab the Toolbox contains the different types of systems you can add to the Pro
257. hermal Properties Thermal Electric Transient Thermal Quick Help e ansient Therma Transfer Data from New Creates an upstream system that can provide data to the selected cell Only those systems that can provide valid data to the selected cell are shown When you choose a system from the options shown here that system will appear to the left of the currently selected system with all appropriate connections drawn Transfer Data to New Creates a downstream system that can accept data from the selected cell Only those systems that can accept data from the selected cell are shown When you choose a system from the options shown here that system will appear to the right of the currently selected system with all appropriate connections drawn Transfer Data options are available only from root cells If a cell is derived from an upstream cell for example when two systems share a geometry you can transfer data only to from the originating cell Tab Context Menu Options When you click on cells on the Project Schematic some of them open up in separate tabs The context menu options available depend on which tabs are open For example if only the Project tab is open there are no context options available The following context menu options are available for tabs Note The Project Schematic Project tab cannot be closed Close Tab Available for all tabs except for the Project tab Closes the selected tab Close Othe
258. ial information 202 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems ee 1 ee Geometry Icepak 2 0 Geometry v 4 2 seu Geometry 3 Solution P Icepak After you refresh the data you will need to decide if you want to replace the entire model in Icepak or update individual geometries that have changed You will be prompted with the following dialog box Refresh input data PRES Options Update model C Replace model Done Je Cancel If you select Update model the Icepak model will be updated to match the existing model in Design Modeler which may result in creating objects that are not currently present in the Icepak model the geometries of modified objects will be updated and the thermal and material properties of the updated objects will be retained Objects created separately in Icepak will not be updated If you select Replace model the entire Icepak model will be replaced with the latest input CAD data from DesignModeler See the sample session in Chapter 2 of the Icepak documentation for an example on how to use Icepak Refer to Understanding Cell States for a complete list of all cell states Perform an analysis on the model if you have not yet done so v 4 v i Icepak 2 a Geometry 4 2 amp Setup WY 4 Geometry 3 Solution v P Icepak If the geometry has changed after you have solved you can perform an update to bring in the new
259. ic structural system 3 Right click the Setup cell in the Linear Buckling system and select Edit or double clicking the Setup cell to open the Mechanical application In the Mechanical application window set your linear buckling controls using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Linear Buckling Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a linear buckling analysis in the Mechanical application 4 On the Toolbar click Update Project Magnetostatic Magnetic fields may exist as a result of a current or a permanent magnet In ANSYS Workbench you can perform 3 D static magnetic field analysis You can model various physical regions including iron air permanent magnets and conductors You will configure your magnetostatic analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution 1 Add a magnetostatic analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential informatio
260. ical APDL application in batch mode using all input and referenced files in the order shown in the Outline pane After all files are processed the Mechanical APDL application exits Updating will capture any output parameters Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 226 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems generated in the Mechanical APDL application and allow you to continue working in ANSYS Workbench Refresh Copies the latest transfer files into the project directory Input and referenced files are not re copied from their original locations If you change an upstream system after you make changes to the Mechan ical APDL application a refresh could potentially overwrite your Mechanical APDL application changes Be sure that any changes you do in the Mechanical APDL application are reflected appropriately in the input files before running a Refresh Only changes that occur within the schematic are captured with a Refresh Required state ANSYS Workbench will not indicate Refresh Required for changes made directly to a file such as manually editing an input file Clear Generated Data Deletes all files on disk in the system directory except input or reference files It will not affect any input or reference files Rename Reset Standard actions as described in Common Context Menu Options p 265 Properties Launches the Properties w
261. ick the Model cell or choose Edit from the Model cell context menu to open the Mechanical applic ation 3 In the Mechanical application proceed with any necessary Model updates 4 You can then add any valid analysis system by dragging a template from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic Choose the appropriate drop location that shares the desired cells with the Mechanical Model system 5 Continue with the analysis in the analysis system as you normally would To replace an existing Mesh system with a Mechanical Model system or vice versa select Replace with and choose Mechanical Model or Mesh respectively from the header context menu When a Mesh system is replaced with a Mechanical Model system the Mechanical Model system can then be shared with any analysis system as described above The units setting specified in an existing system is not maintained in the replacement system In the replacement system you must select the units setting that you want to use Model to Model Connections Multiple Mechanical Model component systems can be merged together by creating a connection between the Model cells of each component system This allows you to build up more complicated models from smaller more simple models This behaves in the same way as Mesh to Mesh Connec tions p 230 More detailed information can be found in Assembling Mechanical Models in the ANSYS Mechanical User s Guide Mesh You can use the Mesh component system
262. id graphic background or a gradient background that varies from top to bottom left to right or diagonally The default is the top to bottom gradient Background Color Sets a graphic background color from the built in color palette The default color is blue Background Color2 Sets a second graphic background color from the built in color palette The second color is used for gradient background displays For example if you want a top bottom gradient that starts out white and ends up black Background Color should be set to white and Background Color2 should be set to black The default color is white Text Color Sets the color of all text from the built in color palette The default color is black Edge Thickness Sets the relative thickness display of all edges to Thin default Medium Thick or Thick provided the View menu is set to either Wireframe or Shaded Exterior and Edges and Edge Color Option is not set to Body Color Edge Colors Sets the colors for the Graphics Options feature from the built in color palette Default colors are presented in the table below Edge Type Default Edge Color Blue Red Black Pink Yellow Meshed Sets the color of all meshed edges from the built in color palette The default color is black Display Controls how ANSYS Workbench displays information Number of Significant Digits Sets the number of digits that appear for numbers throughout Workbench The default is 5 and
263. ietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 85 Working in ANSYS Workbench button and navigate to the folder where you want to save the file Enter a filename You can select either png or bmp as the graphic file type Click Save to select that file path as your save location Click OK to save the file to the location that you selected with the resolution that you ve selected Working with Project Reports ANSYS Workbench project reports allow you to generate a visual snapshot of your project The contents and organization of the report reflect the layout of the Project Schematic with sections for global project information analysis system information system cell information and where applicable content provided by applications in the project Note At this time DesignXplorer and CFD Post are the only applications that provide the project report with detailed report content Content for other applications is limited to the data visible at the project level for example in the Properties view for the associated cell in the Project Schematic This section addresses the following topics Configuring Project Reports p 86 Generating Project Reports p 87 Report Content for Projects with Design Points p 87 Editing Project Reports p 87 Configuring Project Reports Setting Project Report Options You can specify report settings in the Workbench Options dialog 1 I
264. if the source points are defined with respect to a coordinate system that is not aligned with the target geometry system Note Rotation transformations Theta XY YZ ZX specified in the External Data system will be applied to the mapped data pressure displacement force in a downstream Mechanical system Prior to release 14 5 rotation trans formations were not applied Table 8 Allowed Format Specifiers Type Specifier Decimal floating point F or f Scientific notation exponent using E e character Eore Signed decimal in teger Signed integer Character Ignore flag Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 157 ANSYS Workbench Systems In the example below the line has one integer followed by four exponential data types 385 8 333333333E 003 9 375000000E 003 3 375000000E 001 0 000000000E 000 The corresponding format is 113 4e17 9 where e The first entry is the number of occurrences The second entry is the format specifier from Table 8 Allowed Format Specifiers p 157 The third entry is the number of characters of data in the definition including numeric values 0 9 the letter e for instances of scientific notation and any white space and or signs The fourth entry is the number of digits after the decimal point T
265. ify the units setting you want to use Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 48 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working in ANSYS Workbench In this section we ll address working in ANSYS Workbench after you ve populated your Project Schematic with systems The following topics are covered Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench Using Journals and Scripts Project File Management Working with the Chart View Working with Project Reports Using Help Troubleshooting Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench The following sections address using Remote Solve Manager in ANSYS Workbench Submitting Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Update Submitting Solutions for Local Background and Remote Solve Manager RSM Processes Submitting Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Update You can submit a project to the Remote Solve Manager RSM for remote update of the full project To do so you must first configure the project properties and then use the Update Project option to submit the update Note If you are sending solve jobs to a remote computing cluster note that the license preferences set for your local machine the RSM Client may not be the same as the license preferences set for the remote cluster machine the Compute Server In this case the Compute Server license preferences will be
266. iles Cleans res ults Input files such as ds dat CARep xm1 are left intact Set values in Analysis Settings back to defaults Cleans any solved results Solv er files are left intact Deletes any results probes or post tools from Mechanical Imported Temper ature One way FSI input Cleans imported load and de letes transfer xml file User specifications such as scoping are intact Deletes the Import Load from Mechanic al and also deletes CFD result file from disk State on Setup cell goes to Refresh Required Imported Temper ature Thermal stress Cleans imported load and de letes transfer xml file User specifications such as scoping are intact No additional action required Link to FE Model er Deletes SYS cmdb No additional action required Link to CFX Deletes SYS cmdb No additional action required Link to Mechanic al APDL Deletes SYS cdb No additional action required Setup Link to FE Model Deletes mechdb No additional action required er Setup Link to Mechanic No additional action required No additional action required al APDL ds dat is the natural output from the Setup cell Solu Link to Mechanic No additional action required No additional action required tion al APDL file rst is the natural out put from the Solution cell Mechanical APDL Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved C
267. ility and status of the analysis results commonly referred to as postprocessing From the Results cell you cannot share data with any other system Understanding Cell States ANSYS Workbench integrates multiple applications into a single seamless project flow where individual cells can obtain data from and provide data to other cells As a result of this flow of data a cell s state can change in response to changes made to the project ANSYS Workbench provides visual indications of a cell s state at any given time via icons on the right side of each cell Cell states can be divided into the following categories Typical Cell States Solution Specific States Failure States Typical Cell States Unfulfilled P Required upstream data does not exist Some applications may not allow you to open them with the cell in this state For example if you have not yet assigned a geometry to a system all downstream cells will appear as unfulfilled because they cannot progress until you assign a geometry Refresh Required a Upstream data has changed since the last refresh or update You may or may not need to regenerate output data When a cell is in a refresh required state you generally have several options You can edit the cell and choose to review the unrefreshed data Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 255 ANSYS Workbe
268. ill not be shown in the Toolbox Additionally you can customize the Toolbox further specifying that only some of the available systems are visible The Toolbox view persists across tabs It contains systems on the Project tab but on other tabs it will contain other sorts of information such as charts engineering materials etc For information on customizing the Toolbox on the Project tab see Customizing the Toolbox on the Project Tab p 9 For detailed information on system categories and individual systems see ANSYS Workbench Sys tems p 135 The Project Schematic When you interact with a simulation project you will work primarily in the Project Schematic view of the Project tab adding systems from the Toolbox to the project and then working with those systems Projects can vary in complexity from a single system representing all the necessary steps for a desired analysis to a complex set of connected linked systems representing coupled analyses or variations in modeling approaches Note It is recommended that a given project contains only systems that are relevant to a specific analysis or coupled analysis with a well defined focus Adding systems for multiple unrelated analyses to the same project can have an adverse effect on performance and cause corruption with portions of the project Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and it
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270. in put parameters b Runs hexa mesh ing c Converts pre mesh to unstruc tured d Saves the unstruc tured mesh 4 Saves the project Yes No Yes Yes 1 Sets all input para meters 2 Sets blocking input parameters 3 Runs hexa meshing 4 Converts pre mesh to unstructured 5 Saves the unstruc tured mesh 6 Saves the project Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 Sets all the input parameters except blocking 2 Runs the Replay file 3 If blocking still exists a Sets blocking in put parameters Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 184 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Blocking Input Other Input Actions performed Parameters Parameters by ICEM CFD b Runs hexa mesh ing Converts pre mesh to unstruc tured Saves the unstruc tured mesh 4 Saves the project ICEM CFD saves the unstructured mesh and project only if the ICEM CFD GUI is closed and you update the project from Workbench If the ICEM CFD GUI is open you will need to manually save the unstructured mesh and project The order of operations is Meshing input parameters are set before the Replay file is run Blocking Input parameters are set after a replay file is run but only if blocking exists after the replay file is run If no Replay file exists the default mesher is determined by the
271. in Closer option allows you set the preference of whether to zoom on a model by moving the mouse in or out With Dynamic Viewing if you make a standard view change such as front back left right bottom top isometric and Look At Face Plane Sketch a short animation shows the model moving twisting toward its final pose Turn off dynamic viewing if you are using an older graphics card The Use Spaceball setting enables the use of the Spaceball 3D import device not supported in UNIX The Selection category s Extend Selection Angle Limit sets a limit in degrees for what kind of face and edge angles the system considers smooth This affects the Extend to Adjacent and Extend to Limits Extend Selection toolbar buttons in DesignModeler Extend Selection buttons are also present in the Mechanical application The default value is 20 and the range is from 0 to 90 The Angle in crement for configure tool sets the angular increment of the Configure tool when defining a joint Journals and Logs Specify whether to create journal and log files and options associated with each Journal Files Allows you to specify your preferences for journal files Record Journal File Specify if a journal file should be recorded If this check box is selected ANSYS Workbench writes a journal file wb jn for each ANSYS Workbench session and the following options are enabled Journal File Directory Select the directory to which journal files should be wri
272. inators see the figure below e Links indicating a system is consuming input parameters These links connect systems to the Parameter Set bar and are drawn with arrows going into the system as shown in the figure below e Links indicating a system is providing output parameters These links connect systems to the Parameter Set bar and are drawn with arrows coming out of the system as shown in the figure below e Links that indicate a Design Exploration system is connected to project parameters These links connect Design Exploration systems to the Parameter Set bar as shown with the Design Exploration systems in the figure below e Links indicating that data is transferred from a Design Exploration Response Surface to a Parameters Correlation as shown with systems E and F in the figure below e Links indicating that design point data is transferred from a Design Exploration component to a Design Exploration Direct Optimization system For more information see Transferring Design Point Data for Direct Optimization in the Design Exploration User s Guide Additional information on working with links can be found in Creating and Linking a Second Sys tem p 43 and Moving Deleting and Replacing Systems p 48 Y A v B v Cc 2 Geometry A 2 Engineering Data v 2 Engineering Data v 3 Mesh v a G Geometry Yj 3 Geometry say 4 Setup 7 4 Model V 4 t amp Model E 5 Solution v ao Setup 74 7
273. includes a variety of patch independent meshing methods which are able to work with dirty cad and does not require that surfaces be formed into solids or that flow volumes be extracted It does include a wide range of interactive geometry blocking and mesh editing tools that can be used to generate advanced or high quality meshes for any application The data integrated ICEM CFD component system or ANSYS ICEM CFD Add in enables you to launch ICEM CFD from ANSYS Workbench and use it to build a project with the option of adding upstream data from Geometry Mesh Mechanical Model or combined Geometry and Mesh system components You can also use ICEM CFD to provide data to downstream component systems such as ANSYS Fluent ANSYS CFX ANSYS Polyflow Mechanical APDL and FE Modeler Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 179 ANSYS Workbench Systems v A hd 8 c hd D 2 Gomry Y 2 Engineering Dae Pa i 2 sup P 3 Mesh 71 dle wa Ja ICM CFD 3 g Scktn P Mesh Mechanical Model Fluent X E 1 pA 2 s P 3 GB Soon P 4 Reais P CX G 1 ICEM CFD 2 me 2 ICEM CFD Elements of the ICEM CFD Component ICEM CFD pd Parameter Set The ICEM CFD Component system contains the following cells ICEM CFD system header The System Header identifies the component type and provides access to Workben
274. indow where you can define graphics settings command line options database and tab memory and other settings Be aware when selecting graphics settings that some options are potentially platform specific and must be changed when switching platforms before running the project with Mechanical APDL in interactive mode Note on the solver input file generated from the Setup cell of a Mechanical APDL system The solver input file transferred from the Setup cell contains all the commands needed to execute a complete run including any SOLVE commands that are necessary However the input also contains a conditional EOF statement to halt reading of the file and thus not execute the solve This conditional statement will be executed when the Mechanical APDL application is invoked from the Edit in Mechanical APDL context menu option thus running the analysis to the point just prior to the SOLVE command If a different behavior is desired you can edit the input file in the Mechanical APDL system folder to obtain a different behavior or to add an additional input file containing the SOLVE command Mechanical Model A Mechanical Model system consists of Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells In the Mechan ical application this system corresponds to that of a Model only system You can use this type of system to create an analysis using a single model and multiple system analysis branches You can also create other Mechanical Model systems that share d
275. ine inii E ELE E EEEE ERARE TEE 251 Pr gtess VICW setia e an e e a a e T aaa e a aa eTa 251 Cells in Workbench aeniei esere eraa e aa a eai ia ee Eaa eE Ea a a aa E Ea a aE 252 AT ENAA E E E EEE E E sab S E E E EE E E 252 Engineering Data cccstcset trian aed eiaiah rian cad atin aerated 252 GOOMEWY i sieviad eves setesetied esGadveetecds sieves sets Votved vessddessSeddi ie cescetevetvad duvsdedesederdi odeesstetsyeteedess 253 MOdel MeSH i secssserserdes tczee sev eansedid E E facets tech dad lthesersendss NE dela thes reese oes 253 SELUP E urs stecmetiete T E E E T E 254 LOLU aL ABAE EEA A E EE Ue 254 ET E E E E E A E EE E E 255 Understanding Cell Stateside neies nn dai raiet carai aai i ata iaei ea E Aa Eaa hex 255 T pi cal Cell States sek a cents aaa eae aa Gaus RE A E aea ee A aaeoa Ea EE Tri aia ee aAa 255 Solution Specific States senini a are e a E ENS EEEE EAEE AEE Ea a Eaa aS 256 Failure Stateseccssaccss Ae E aE E E a a AEA Aa a 257 Cell Properties rsi eio e a a E OE a ES a E a a A eE a 258 Common Gell Properties sie arenei i en E E EEA EE E ETET 258 Menus in Workbench sns nincaeiien iein i ETE EE a E E E E Ea 259 Ment Bat noiiire as a TER ONNEEN AEE EENEN OT N 259 FleMenU ieina i i a E A a a a a ia a ns a AE A A e abbas a a 259 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates vii User s Guide VIEW MENU sie
276. ing mode where you can import a computational mesh Double click the Setup cell to open Fluent in solution mode where you can specify the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters as well as perform the calculations Alternatively you can import a previously saved Fluent case file by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Import FLUENT Case For detailed information on working with Fluent in meshing mode see the Fluent Meshing User s Guide as well as the other on line documentation available under the Help menu within Fluent in meshing mode In addition please see the Fluent in Workbench User s Guide For information on submitting Fluent jobs to Remote Solve Manager see Submitting Fluent Jobs to RSM Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 178 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Geometry Use the Geometry system to import a model Right mouse click the Geometry cell and select New Geometry or Import Geometry If you select New Geometry the DesignModeler application opens You can then build a model using the DesignModeler features When you save the geometry in DesignModeler the file becomes an agdb file If you select Import Geometry you can browse to an existing geometry file You can also choose ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler via the Tools menu For more information see New Geometry
277. initiated RSM jobs that are queued and running will continue to run after you exit When you reopen the project you can resume the update of the pending jobs to reconnect and download the results If you do save the project before exiting Retrieved design point results will be saved to the project RSM jobs that are queued and running will continue to run after you exit Jobs for which the results have been saved will show a Status of Finished and the Finished icon in the RSM List view the asterisk on the icon indicates that the job has also been released e Jobs for which results have not yet been saved are not released upon exit When you reopen the project you can resume update of the pending jobs to reconnect and download the results Note for Using Windows LSF Scheduler If you are doing a design point update via RSM using Windows LSF scheduler you may see lengthy delays with the remote updates finishing due to shared licensing The shared licensing handler started by one design point update job can remain running after the completion of that job because it is also Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 112 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points being used by the next job if that second job starts before the first job finishes In this situation both jobs are using the same shared licensing handler started by the first job
278. interface Not all products databases use all of these methods DesignXplorer Release 11 dxdb file import is not supported however basic parameter import is supported Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 78 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Project File Management The following table shows which applications can use the three methods described above Table 1 Import Methods Application Context File gt Import Project Import 3 Menu Import 2 1 ANSYS Workbench Release 11 or 10 wodb Mechanical dsdb FE Modeler fedb Engineering Data eddb except convec tions and load histories Engineering Data xml engd AWA aqdb Autodyn ad Mechanical APDL inp dat cdb mac anf DesignModeler agdb Meshing cmdb Fluent msh cas dat CFX cfx def res BladeGen bdg a cmdb files from Release 10 that contain CFX Mesh data are not supported To import these files import them first into Release 11 save as a Release 11 file and then import into Release 15 0 Additional Mechanical Application Import Details Legacy dsdb files that contain multiple models are split into multiple files dsdb files become mechdb files internally Separate systems are created to correspond to each of the Release 11 environments Environm
279. ion Based on your Preferences setting a journal of your full session will automatically be saved to the location you specify see Setting Journaling Preferences You can also choose to record part of a session to a journal file capturing a specific set of actions Playing back the journal will recreate the recorded actions exactly Journaling and scripting tools including recording and playback are available through the File gt Scripting menu and can be performed by anyone using the ANSYS Workbench UI e Use journaled sessions to restore work after a crash e Journals are platform independent and portable subject to file location consistency between accounts see File Path Handling in ANSYS Workbench for details on file path handling within journals and scripts They can be used with any ANSYS installation release 12 1 or higher Setting Journaling Preferences You can set journaling preferences such as the default directory where journals will be written and how long to keep a journal file 1 In ANSYS Workbench select Tools gt Options gt Journals and Logs 2 Select Record Journal Files to have ANSYS Workbench automatically write journal files Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 69 Working in ANSYS Workbench 5 6 Specify the default location where journal files will be written This is the locat
280. ion has completed Note If the Hold option was previously set and subsequently changed to Release the license will be released immediately after clicking OK on the Options dialog box A plug in license that is held will always be released when exiting the ANSYS Workbench session Analysis Options Analysis Type Specifies the analysis type You can choose either 3D or 2D For more information see the Advanced Geometry Options table at Geometry Preferences in the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Help Basic Options For detailed descriptions of the basic geometry import options see the Basic Geometry Options table at Geometry Preferences in the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Help Advanced Options For detailed descriptions of the advanced geometry import options see the Advanced Geometry Op tions table at Geometry Preferences in the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Help STL Specific Options The STL Specific options are applicable to beta features and therefore are not supported Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench ANSYS Workbench offers two licensing methods at Release 15 0 Share a single license between applications default shared mode Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 28 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench e Use a separate license for each application
281. ion that the browser will open in automatically when you choose to begin recording a journal You will still be able to browse to a different location before saving a particular journal Specify the number of days to keep a journal file Specify how long in seconds to pause between each command when running a journal file Click OK to save your settings Recording and Playing a Journal Follow the steps described below to record a journal and then to playback a journal interactively To use the command window see Using the Command Window p 71 Recording a Journal 1 2 Launch ANSYS Workbench Select File gt Scripting gt Record Journal Specify the name and location of the journal file and click Save Use the GUI to work through your analysis as you normally would Select File gt Scripting gt Stop Recording Journal A message appears informing you that you will stop recording Click OK Note Not all actions are journaled Only actions that change project data are journaled Some ex amples of actions that are not journaled include e GUl only actions such as interrupting a Solve operation running in Compact mode launching help including quick help and the Sidebar Help view running the View Solver Output option from VistaTF s Solution cell e Actions taken in some data integrated applications see Scripting and Data Integrated Applica tions Playing Back a Recorded Journal 1 2 3 Selec
282. ip By default Excel puts a minus sign at the beginning of a negative number but it does not put a plus sign at the beginning of a positive number which changes the number of characters in the negative version of a number However if you select a column in Excel and apply a custom format you can have a plus sign added to positive numbers In Excel s Format Cells dialog box set the Type with an example of the format for a positive number and a negative number separating the two types with a semicolon For example 00 00E 00 00 00E 00 Based on the format details you specified in the Properties view you will need to define the data types and their corresponding units in the Table of File view The allowed Data Type values are Not Used X Coordinate Y Coordinate Z Coordinate Element ID Node ID e Temperature e Pressure e Heat Transfer Coefficient Heat Flux 158 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems e Heat Rate e Heat Generation e Thickness Displacement e Force e Velocity e Stress e Strain Body Force Density Note Thickness uses the Length Data Unit and the Data Identifier should start with Thickness Tip You can multi select rows from the left most column in the Table of File view then right click to set all highlighted Dat
283. is steps Examples of analysis steps cells that open tabs are the Parameter Set bar the Parameter Set cell and the Analysis cell in a Mechanical APDL or Excel component system Views within Tabs ANSYS Workbench provides the following categories of views Project Schematic View Common Views Persistent Views Project Schematic View Located on the Project tab the Project Schematic view is the main workspace for your project Project Schematic Properties The Properties view of the Project Schematic has the following properties Notes This property displays project notes created via the Project Schematic Add Note context menu option For more information on adding project notes see Project Schematic Context Menu Options p 271 Update Options This property allows you to specify whether the Update Project action will be performed as a job sub mitted to the Remote Solve Manager Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 245 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference When this property is set to Submit to Remote Solve Manager the related Solve Manager Queue Pre RSM Foreground Update and Component Execution Mode properties become enabled When the project is sent to RSM via the Update Project option only those systems above the Parameter Set bar will be submitted updated remotely For more information see Submitting
284. itory which resides on a dedicated server for enterprise level data management For further information on installing EKM servers and creating re positories refer to the ANSYS EKM Installation Guide Within ANSYS Workbench you can establish a connection to one or more EKM repositories to provide flexible management of local remote and or shared data Once an ANSYS Workbench project has been stored to a repository you can use the EKM web interface to perform the full set of EKM activities including reporting managing access permissions or remote access of ANSYS Workbench functionality such as the execution of design point runs or performing optimization studies using ANSYS DesignXplorer For a complete description of EKM capabilities refer to the ANSYS EKM User s Guide This section covers the following topics Creating a Repository Connection Launching EKM with a Web Browser Working with Existing Repository Connections Registering an ANSYS Workbench Session with an EKM Repository Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository Importing Repository Files Troubleshooting Creating a Repository Connection Before you can work with a project from the EKM repository you must create a connection between a local ANSYS Workbench installation and an EKM repository A connection contains information for the server hosting the EKM repository to which you want to connect the workspace within the repository and the user credentia
285. its mass length time temperature angle and solid angle For instance Pa Pascals and J Joules are both acceptable as parts of unit strings e Units strings are case sensitive for example Kg and KG are both invalid parts of units strings kg is correct Caution English US expression evaluations that involve temperatures are a special case For the unit conversion of a specific temperature value 1 degC 274 15 K However the unit conversion for a temperature interval delta T is 1 degC 1 K The expression evaluator will take any temperature value and treat it as a specific temperature not a temperature interval by converting it to the absolute unit of the project unit system either K or R If the intent is to perform the evaluation in terms of temperature intervals you need to start with temperatures in absolute units Once the value quantity name e g Area is determined from the unit of the value it can only be sub sequently changed by changing the parameter s value quantity name property setting You cannot change the expression e g from area to volume without changing the value quantity name Automatic unit conversion is only done when the quantity name is known Table 2 Unit Multipliers Multiplier Multiplier Abbre Value viation 108 10 P T G M k hecto 10 h deca 10 da Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confiden
286. ject Schematic Systems are divided into categories which can be expanded or collapsed to show or hide the systems in that category You can select systems from the following categories Analysis Systems p 135 Component Systems p 149 Custom Systems p 240 Design Exploration p 242 External Connection Systems p 243 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 4 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates The Project Tab x E Analysis Systems Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow Fluid Flow CFX Fluid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow Polyflow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffraction Hydrodynamic Time Response pad IC Engine Linear Buckling Magnetostatic D Modal cr Modal Samcef fi Response Spectrum Component Systems Custom Systems E Design Exploration Direct Optimization By Parameters Correlation Bl Response Surface Response Surface Optimization ah SixSigma Analysis External Connection Systems Y View All Customize The contents of each category are determined by which products you have installed and what licenses are available If you do not have a particular product installed or do not have an available license the individual systems corresponding to that product w
287. kbench GUI you may see a warning message when you attempt to open the project The error message will list the missing file s The corrective action depends on the type of files that are missing For files that are programmatically integrated with ANSYS Workbench such as database files geometry files engineering data files application generated files etc use View gt Files to open the Files pane where you can use the context menu to repair a file or permanently remove it from the project s file list if it is no longer needed Repairing these types of files should be done judiciously it is possible to use files or file types that are not similar to the original Missing or erroneous files can cause unintended consequences for project stability and usability Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 76 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Project File Management e For files that are not programmatically integrated with ANSYS Workbench such as user supplied input files dpn files etc you can replace them using your file system and then open the project again These files may not be necessary for the project in this situation you can safely ignore the warning message The project system may delete back up or restore files when e deleting duplicating or replacing systems in the schematic opening an application for a cell e closing a project
288. kpoints the delay between the interrupt request and the actual interruption can sometimes be lengthy Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 251 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference ice GO eee a Design Assessmet v v B secre a Serpe oor 2 Engineering Data m 2 Engineering Data A Fluid Flow Blow Fluid Flow Extrus 4 Fluid Flow CFX News Fluid Flow FLUEN 5 Setup Pa Fluid Flow POLYF 6 Solution ae 6 Solution Pa 4 Harmonic Respon 7 Results ar 7 Results Ha Hydrodynamic Dif Modal ANSYS Static Structural ANSYS Hydrodynamic Tir Linear Buckling i Magnetostatic Modal Modal Samcef Random Vibration ff Response Spectru E Rigid Dynamics Progress Updating the Setup component in Modal Shape Optimizatio ANSYS o Static Structural ER orti Cin ntonl ir Updating m Hide Progress Show 1 Messages Note For Mechanical runs only Static Structural Static Structural analysis using ANSYS solver and Transient Structural Transient Structural analysis using ANSYS solver support interrupt Cells in Workbench The systems that you add to the Project Schematic are made up of one or more cells The following cells topics are discussed below Types of Cells Understanding Cell States Cell Properties
289. l rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates User s Guide Set Up thesExcel CalCulator ciecia sa daseecavededeaesedestestecdecacs E E E a 234 Support Of Units orenen ged cecgsuedbeesaeacuclasaceessingatdanssdenessbeustucdadbediesvedeasanttceneasseenauser 235 File management and modification of the Worksheet cssssceceessneeeeeessneeeceesseeeecessaaeeeeeees 235 LIMITATIONS s Bice x ra orae r tes vtaed tien adeblesn O A NN deen tus AA E ve auiadithae devise E A A R A 236 Troubleshooting 6 ce icc sito ean vice enc vc pcce a vente Lea ea Gag eaten R EE aa oa a ek ewe eA ae eioh 236 POIVMlOW 3d decesetdeesecseaci E des au oto T te ened dpe eins adsense 236 ReSultsis sect ciieaerreit cnt adiisbues badass E Gaither ead deter a a es 237 System Couplings s e t oh E oa ert a iar ae demesne E 237 Solution Cell Properties ssena ss sasaveeaneccecdacacdesgaed sevtsa es caavoanancesddea cde veaededcsaaea saeessvbedeetenae 237 T rbOGrid sarrio ee iea E RE E EEE EA cecsdeadeaspuaueudeatededsbweanideastecceaaeeg 238 VIStA AF Devs ccsesants caiceoesiceexel evtaev KE EE AES EEEE EEEREN EEKE A VAENE RREK 238 Vista CCD and Vista CCD With CCMi ssis ensenis e iE AA A EAA a aai 238 AET GRD EE E ET A E E ENE 239 Vista RPD ee neeaaeo snee E AEE E E O A AE EE e ECER 239 VISTAT Ps wedeoesceadeadevenasens eieatod a EAE A a E AE ENE E EREE NASEER ES 239 CUStOMm SYSTEMS orne se RT E Ea eras
290. l system to launch the Mechanical application 3 In the Mechanical application choose Tools gt Solve Process Settings from the Main Menu Follow the instructions in Using Solve Process Settings to configure your solution settings The settings established here will be visible in the Solution Process properties in ANSYS Workbench 4 In ANSYS Workbench select the Solution Process settings that you want to use for this solution and update the Solution cell via a cell system project or design point update Alternatively you can choose the desired solution configuration from the Mechanical application by selecting Solve from the main menu and choosing from the configurations listed in the drop down list Note e You can Interrupt or Abort an update by right clicking the Solution cell These options are available during foreground background and RSM updates The Workbench Options enable you to control the Mechanical application s license handling As described in Mechanical p 25 you can configure the license to always be released during batch run or to be released when you perform an Update All Design Points run A third option is On Demand which makes a Release License option available Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 55 Working in ANSYS Workbench on the Solution cell s context menu when the cell i
291. l work with your ANSYS Workbench project on the main project workspace called the Project tab The project is driven by a schematic workflow represented visually on a flowchart like diagram called the Project Schematic To build an analysis you add building blocks called systems to the Project Schematic each system is a block of one or more components called cells which rep resent the sequential steps necessary for the specific type of analysis Once you have added your systems you can link them together to share and or transfer data between systems From the cells in the Project Schematic you can work with various ANSYS applications and analysis tasks Some of these open in tabs within the Workbench environment while others open independently in their own windows ANSYS applications allow you to specify parameters such as geometry parameters material properties and boundary conditions Parameters can be defined within the application and managed at the project level in the Workbench environment To perform your analysis you will work through the cells of each system in order typically from top to bottom defining inputs specifying project parameters running your simulation and investigating the results Workbench enables you to easily investigate design alternatives You can modify any part of an analysis or vary one or more parameters and then automatically update the project to see the effect of the change on the simulation resu
292. lect Edit to display the opening for the Max x object panel and specify the x velocity to be 2 m s Click Done to close the Openings and Cabinet panels The final model should correspond to the one shown below 216 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Figure 8 The Final Model Display D Problem setup Sodton senngs Groups Z Postprocessing E SERIAL PORT Memory MEMORY_2 CAPACITOR CAPACITOR 2 E cabinet detout side_minw cobmet_deteut_side_mavx pez Fonema 3 lease wart loading meteria Ses Ee ol C Program Files ANSYS EU ofm Inciv 4i icepskycepak 4 vcepak_libimaterials 264 s y i mye m Done Type fiona a sf 01 m zel Olm Done loading Apeh Posof jee F Verbose F Log Sove Step 3 Generate a Mesh Note For more information on how to refine a mesh locally please refer to the ANSYS Icepak User s Guide Click the assembly toolbar icon to create an assembly Add the heat sink and the CPU to the assembly and rename it CPU_assembly Note To add objects to an assembly select one or more objects in the Model manager window and drag them into the desired assembly node Display the CPU_assembly object panel and click the Meshing tab Enable the Mesh separately option and enter the following slack values Click Done to close
293. lick OK to finish User Defined Workbench Input A Parameters 8 User Defined Workbench Input Parameters V Create User Defined Input Parameter Parameter name ZSIZE Parameter value 2 Delete User Defined Input Parameter Parameter name Now create a box model upon which you will perform a meshing operation Record the process so the operation can be performed again when you update it from Workbench a Click the Start Replay button b Click the Geometry tab and choose Create Modify Surface c Choose Standard Shape from the Create Modify Surface window d Choose Box and click Apply e Click the Mesh tab and choose Compute Mesh f Choose Volume Mesh and click Compute 194 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems g h Click Yes on the pop up dialog to use autosizing for the mesh size Click the Stop Replay Recording button Choose File gt Save Project to save the project 5 Next edit the script to use the input parameter a b Choose Replay Control from the One Click menu Click the Edit button Edit Line 12 or whichever line is appropriate ic_vid_objectbox8 GEOM 00 0 0 0 1 1 1 to ic_vid_object box8 GEOM 00 0 0 0 1 1 ic_wb2_get_parameter user_defined ZSIZE Close the Edit window Click the Save button and save ICM
294. lick on the Setup cell and selecting Import Icepak Project You will find Icepak project files located in the system directory under IPK All Icepak projects saved in ANSYS Workbench will follow this naming convention which is described in Project File Management All other Icepak projects can be saved anywhere Note there are no special icons for Icepak projects to differentiate them from other files Note You can only import one Icepak project per system You can also load an existing Icepak model by doing a right mouse click on the Setup cell and selecting Import Icepak Project From tzr Click Browse A file open dialog box will be displayed in which you can browse the directory structure and select the model to load The system will show an incomplete cell state 3 Solution P 1 Icepak 7 indicates the system has not been solved b In Icepak set up the problem and complete your analysis using Icepak s tools and features After solving the Icepak system will show an up to date cell state as shown below Solution v m Icepak Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 198 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems indicates that all necessary files are loaded and up to date Note If you load an Icepak project that already has a solution the Solution cell state will show an up to date cell state after the model is loa
295. licking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 148 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your transient structural analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Transient Structural Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a transient structural analysis in the Mechanical application Transient Thermal and Transient Thermal Samcef Transient thermal analyses determine temperatures and other thermal quantities that vary over time The variation of temperature distribution over time is of interest in many applications such as with cooling of electronic packages or a quenching analysis for heat treatment Also of interest are the temperature distribution results in thermal stresses that can cause failure In such cases the temperatures from a transient thermal analysis are used as inputs to a static structural analysis for thermal stress evaluations Many heat transfer applications such as heat trea
296. lier is a multiplying quantity or its abbreviation e g mega M pico p etc unit is the unit string or abbreviation e g gram g pound Ib foot ft meter m etc and power is the power to which the Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 98 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Parameters unit is raised See Table 2 Unit Multipliers p 99 and Table 3 Example Quantities and Units p 100 for examples of multipliers and commonly used units When typing units in an expression the units must be enclosed by square braces You will usually not see the braces when selecting units from a list of commonly used units In general units declarations must obey the following rules A units string consists of one or more units quantities each with an optional multiplier and optional power Each separate units quantity is separated by one or more spaces Abbreviations for multipliers and unit names are typically used but full names are also supported Powers are denoted by the caret symbol A power of 1 is assumed if no power is given A negative power is typically used for unit division i e kg m4 3 corresponds to kilograms per cubic meter If you enter units that are inconsistent with the physical quantity being described then an expression error will result e Units do not have to be given in terms of the fundamental un
297. listed in the context menu Note If you use Replace with to replace a Mechanical system that has a Section Data cell with another Mechanical system the new environment will be added and the original Mechanical environment including boundary conditions and results will be deleted Delete Deletes the system from the schematic You will be prompted to confirm the deletion before any action is taken Recreate Deleted Cells If cells have been removed from the system by a cell level delete operation or automatically when a self contained file is loaded into the cell which renders upstream cells unnecessary such as importing a case file into a CFX setup system this operation creates new cells at the points where the previous cells were removed Rename Renames the system Properties Displays system properties in the Properties view Add Edit Note Displays an editable pane where you can enter notes about a system or cell There is no limit to the amount of text you can type into a note as you type the pane increases in length You can also edit an Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 270 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench existing note by left or right clicking on the green triangle in the upper right corner of a system or cell or by editing the Notes field in the Properties view To close the note click outside the pane
298. locally or via Remote Solve Manager activate and export design points e reserve licenses for design point updates specify the design point update order For more information on working with design points see Design Points p 101 Parameters A parameter is an entity that is linked to a data model property within an application You can have input and output parameters Parameter values can be numeric or non numeric string or Boolean Non numeric parameters are ignored for charting purposes An input parameter can be modified at the project level and drives a change within the data model The value of an output parameter is set by the application based on the current results or state Input parameters are parameters that define the geometry or inputs to the analysis for the system under investigation Input parameters have predefined values or ranges that may be changed These include and are not limited to CAD parameters analysis parameters and DesignModeler parameters CAD and DesignModeler input parameters might include length radius etc analysis input parameters might include pressure material properties sheet thickness etc Output parameters are parameters that result from the geometry or are the response outputs from the analysis These include but are not limited to volume mass frequency stress velocities pressures forces heat flux and so forth Custom Parameters are input or output parameters you have create
299. ls The structural static solution provides the necessary solver files as input to the modal Setup cell See the discussion on Pre Stress analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 240 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Custom Systems Random Vibration This template creates two systems an ANSYS modal system that transfers data into an ANSYS random vibration system The two systems share Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells The modal solution provides the necessary solver files as input to the random vibration setup cell See the Random Vibration analysis discussion in the Mechanical application help for more information Response Spectrum This template creates two systems an ANSYS modal system that transfers data into an ANSYS response spectrum system The two systems share Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells The modal solution provides the necessary solver files as input to the response spectrum Setup cell See the Re sponse Spectrum analysis discussion in the Mechanical application help for more information Thermal Stress This template creates two systems an ANSYS steady state thermal system that transfers data into an ANSYS static structural system The two systems share Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells The steady state thermal solution provides temperature in
300. ls used to log onto the repository Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 119 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM To create a connection from Workbench 1 From ANSYS Workbench open the Save to Repository dialog File gt Save to Repository or Open Project from Repository dialog File gt Open Project from Repository 2 If no connections exist you will be prompted to create one Click the Create New Connection button Cj on the resulting dialog box Alternatively you can right click inside the dialog and select Create Connection 3 Follow the steps in the Create New Connection wizard For example you may have one connection where users store their personal archives a workspace with the server in Individual mode and another connection where you store and access projects to collab orate with the rest of your workgroup a workspace with the server in Shared mode Note With an Individual workspace you will only be able to see your own files stored in your My Data directory With a Shared workspace you will be able to see both your own files and the shared files within the repository stored in the My Data and Repository directories re spectively For more information see the ANSYS EKM User s Guide Once a connection is created you can use the ANSYS Workbench File menu to interact with the EKM
301. lt Related Topics Interacting with Project Objects Workbench Tabs and Views The Project Tab Interacting with Project Objects In ANSYS Workbench a Toolbox on the left side of the Project tab contains analysis systems component systems and other types of project objects The Project Schematic view will contain the system s that you have added with each system made up of one or more cells You can interact with these project objects in a number of different ways e Single click Single click an object to select it This does not modify data or initiate any action Double click Double click an object to initiate the default action This allows users who are familiar with ANSYS Workbench to quickly move through basic or common operations e Right click Right click to display a context menu applicable to the current state of the selected object From the context menu you can select from multiple actions The default action is shown in bold and is the action that will occur if you double click the object Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 1 Overview Drag and drop Drag and drop an object to preview possible locations for it on the Project Schematic A drag and drop operation can have multiple alternative targets depending on context and schematic complexity Holding down the mouse button hover over any
302. lytical Convert LEL PPly y Rotate Translate data CELE data transformation ELECE from file functions MKS Convert PELEA Cartesian The following example takes nodal data written in a cylindrical system from a ring with an inner radius of 8 mm and an outer radius of 10 mm and allows an analytical transformation value to be applied to the radius of the source data such that it aligns with a smaller ring with an inner radius of 7 2 mm and an outer radius of 9 mm Thermal results on an expanded or stretched ring inner radius is 8 mm and outer radius is 10 mm Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 168 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 99 97 Min 0 000 5 000 10 000 mrn a A 2 500 7 500 Sample cylindrical nodal data Node Number Radius mm Theta radi Z Location Temperature C ans mm 1 8 914523065 0 247535105 99 983 2 8 914523065 0 247535105 99 984 ps fasras23065 ozro oa oos 4 8 914523065 0 247535105 0 4 99 983 5 99 983 8 917873803 0 192647608 1 6 8 917873803 0 192647608 0 8 8 917873803 0 192647608 0 4 8 927166575 0 137916029 1 6 If we simply import the nodal data you can see how the source nodes are not contained within the target volume Imported temperature load with unmodified source points displayed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights
303. m however if you are familiar with a particular application you can use your product knowledge to complete an analysis Component systems available with ANSYS Workbench include the following Systems will be available only if you have installed the product and have an appropriate license Autodyn BladeGen CFX Engineering Data Explicit Dynamics LS DYNA Export External Data External Model Finite Element Modeler Fluent Fluent with TGrid meshing Geometry ANSYS ICEM CFD Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 149 ANSYS Workbench Systems Icepak Mechanical APDL Mechanical Model Mesh Microsoft Office Excel Polyflow Results System Coupling TurboGrid Vista AFD Vista CCD and Vista CCD with CCM Vista CPD Vista RTD Vista TF When you double click or drag a component system onto the Project Schematic you will see that type of system Autodyn You can use the Autodyn system to launch the standalone Autodyn application This application supports the full range of Autodyn capabilities including the Explicit Eulerian solvers meshfree SPH solvers and explicit solver coupling FSI Note The Explicit Dynamics analysis system supports the FE components of the Autodyn solver Input Files The Autodyn system takes the binary database ad file as input Output Files Files that ar
304. m will be set to WB for all new projects you create If you ve specified a different filtering prefix the project level via the Named Range Key property the project level setting will not be affected by changes to this option Meshing Specify the following options for the Meshing application Pre load the Meshing editor Controls whether Meshing starts in the background when a Meshing system is added to the Project Schematic or when a project containing a Meshing system is resumed Default Disabled If you enable this option then later disable it you must restart Workbench in order for your change to take effect Auto Detect Contact On Attach Controls whether contact detection is computed upon geometry import into Meshing Default Enabled Design Points Control periodic restarts of the Meshing application when running in batch mode Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 26 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options During a design point update periodically restart the Meshing application Directs the Meshing ap plication to automatically restart after the specified number of design points when running in batch mode Default Enabled and set to restart after each one design point Each restart resets the Meshing application and slightly lengthens the processing time but can improve overall system performance memo
305. m aNtaiseytiaie 41 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from Geometry ssssesssssssssssessssssessssreessssresssereesssreessssreesssene 41 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Mesh ssssssssssssssssssssssssesssssessssreessssressssseessse 42 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Case File Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX Sys TEM auia EE E EAE IEE AEE EE ATR T E ETE rT 43 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Case File Fluid Flow Polyflow System 43 Creating and Linking a Second System spcsaiiesussswisd venuredycs shed onsaveedassaneasnsouesnns nana peobanedavate naa yeveuualaennnptes 43 Creating Independent Systems isss iosi iir inas iiia e A E i e aaa hen saat gen iN a 43 Creating Connected SYS COIS essi eirin itii nei eiieeii deiei eia i nansebea gs 44 Duplicating Syst m Sse se cabanted svat pslealonn aldosaass calevepcuslta wealanoeutoas ds ENES TE eaS Raehan aa Sna eeni 46 Moving Deleting and Replacing Systems sssesssssessssssesssssesssssressssrtesssrressseresssstreesssetessseresssereesssereesse 48 Working iM ANSYS Workberniehis seriei sauna tase tanesadncdapudecaeradsaedeeasautngrauincda AEE a aa E eaa me 49 Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench cccsessssccceceeceseesenneceeeeceeessessnneeeeeeseeseees 49 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates iii
306. mation of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 115 Working with Parameters and Design Points even though a license was used To ensure that tracking captures information for all components you should close all cells editors before updating Note License tracking can be turned off by your corporate license administrator If you run a study and do not see which licenses were used please see your license administrator Returning Reserved Licenses If you are running a design point study and are using reserved licenses you may need to free licenses if one or more design point runs hang or do not complete successfully for example if you delete a project that contains pending updates using reserved licenses This situation should rarely occur Typ ically licenses will be released if a design point fails To free a reserved license select Tools gt Release Reserved Licenses Select the projects for which you want to release licenses and click Release Selected This utility removes any free or hung licenses in the reserve if any of the reserved licenses are still in use those running jobs will continue to completion or until they attempt to check out further licenses The design point study will fail if it attempts to update further design points since the reserves have been removed Using HPC Parametric Pack Licenses ANSYS Inc offers additional license options called HPC Parametric Packs for ANSYS Workbench j
307. mer Portal go to http support ansys com docinfo Ansoft Projects that include Ansoft systems will return updated parameter values but will not return the detailed solution for the Current design point Third Party CAD Systems Projects that include geometry parameters that rely on third party CAD systems will not update the geometry unless the CAD system is accessible on the compute server Mechanical Design point updates via RSM can fail for a class of problems typically involving a Structural system linked to a Modal or other type of Mechanical system that meet the following criteria A non parameterized upstream Mechanical system provides solution data to a parameterized down stream Mechanical system and both systems share the same geometry model Updates are performed via pre RSM local update The parameters for some of the design points will not be computed and will be marked as errors in the design point table Workarounds Select the Enable Legacy Solve check box Tools gt Options gt Mechanical or In Parameter Set properties set the Pre RSM Foreground Update property to None and the Job Submission property to One Job for All Design Points Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 113 Working with Parameters and Design Points Reserving Licenses for a Design Point Update To ensure tha
308. meters and report content has been provided by an application in the project during design point update then the Design Points table will contain links to sub reports for each design point Detailed report content for each design point can be accessed via a hyperlink in the Report column of the Design Points table in the project report Clicking on the link will open a sub report that contains the application specific content for that design point if available Editing Project Reports Once you have generated a project report you can edit its contents as needed 1 Open the report file with an HTML adapted editor such as Microsoft Word by right clicking the file and selecting the Open with menu option 2 Edit the report contents and formatting as needed 3 Save the file in the desired file format s to a location outside Workbench Using Help ANSYS Workbench offers three levels of help Quick Help p 87 Sidebar Help p 88 Online Help p 88 Quick Help Quick help is available for most cells in a system Click the blue arrow in the bottom right corner of the cell to see a brief help panel on that cell Quick help is generally state sensitive as the state of a cell changes the content of the quick help panel will update to match From quick help you can also access related help topics in the online help system Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of A
309. meters view Both derived parameters and constant values can be added in the Outline of Parameters view but once added derived parameters become read only in the Outline view You must use the Properties of Outline view to edit them Constant values however can be edited in the Outline of Parameters view Outline of All Parameters my x A D 1 ID Parameter Name Value unit 2 Input Parameters 3 amp A Mechanical APDL 1 4 tb Pl ROADTHICKNESS 2 5 tb P2 ARCRADIUS 120 6 i PS Input Parameter 2 955E 07 pea New input parameter New name Newe pre 8 amp Output Parameters 9 amp A Mechanical APDL B1 10 pd P3 MASS 9 B5E 06 11 pd P4 DEFORMATION 0 224 x xX A B Ei Property value 3 Exclude Current Design point ra X Axis Bottom P1 ROADTHICKNESS E 5 X Axis Top H linc Y axis Left P3 MASS z ES Y axis Right P4 DEFORMATION E If the expression defining the custom parameter results in a quantity it will infer its quantity name from the value produced by the expression evaluation As a consequence if the expression is a sum of multiple terms every term needs to be made of the same quantity For example if the resulting quantity is 3 4 m 2 the new custom parameter will take on the quantity name Area In some cases more than one quantity name may be valid for the expression In these cases the parameter quantity name will not b
310. metry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your modal analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Modal Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a modal analysis in the Mechanical application Random Vibration The loads on a structural system may not always be known or quantifiable with certainty Sensitive electronic equipment mounted in an automobile for example may experience slightly different conditions each day due to changes in engine vibration or pavement roughness even if the same road is traveled A random vibration analysis enables you to determine the response of structures to vibration loads that are random in nature Since the input loads are described using statistical quantities the outputs are said to be nondeterministic meaning that the results can only be known within a certain probability You will configure your random vibration analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution A random vibration analysis must follow a modal analysis that extracts the natural frequencies and mode shape See the instructions in Modal and Modal Samcef p 145 t
311. n 144 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your magnetostatic analysis using the Mechanical ap plication s tools and features See Magnetostatic Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a magnetostatic analysis in the Mechanical application Modal and Modal Samcef A modal analysis determines the vibration characteristics natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes of a structure or a machine component It can serve as a starting point for other types of analyses by detecting unconstrained bodies in a contact analysis or by indicating the necessary time step size for a transient analysis for example In addition the modal analysis results may be used in a downstream dynamic simulation employing mode superposition methods such as a harmonic response analysis a random vibration analysis or a spectrum analysis The natural frequencies and mode shapes are important parameters in the design of a structure for dynamic loading conditions You will configure your modal analysis in the Mechanical application which uses either the ANSYS or Samcef solver depending on which system you selected to compute the solution 1 Add a modal analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geo
312. n 236 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems data file by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Import Polyflow Dat in the context menu that opens You have the option of specifying material data by right clicking the Setup cell and clicking Polymat in the context menu that opens 5 You can define your preferences for Polyflow by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Preferences and Polyflow in the context menu that opens 6 Run the Polyflow calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Update in the context menu that opens You can check the status of the solver during or after the calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polydiag in the context menu that opens You can open the listing file to see what Polyflow has done during or after the calculation by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Listing Viewer in the context menu that opens 7 You can generate plots of the solution data by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polycurve in the context menu that opens You can statistically postprocess the results of the solution data by right clicking the Solution cell and clicking Polystat in the context menu that opens For detailed information on working with Polyflow see the online documentation available under the Help menu within Polyflow In addition please see the separate Polyflow in Workbench User s Guide For information on submi
313. n Files added to the project will appear here Files deleted from the project will be shown in red and will be marked with a Deleted icon See Files View p 247 for more information on using the Files view Database files associated with the various ANSYS Workbench ap plications are listed below Database Files ANSYS Workbench applications create the following types of database files ANSYS Workbench project database file wbpj Mechanical APDL db Fluent cas dat msh e CFX cfx def res mdef and mres e DesignModeler agdb CFX Mesh cmdb Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 77 Working in ANSYS Workbench e Mechanical mechdb Meshing cmdb e Engineering Data eddb FE Modeler fedb e Mesh Morpher rsx e ANSYS Autodyn ad DesignXplorer dxdb e BladeGen bgd Workbench Journal and Log Files ANSYS Workbench writes journal and log files for each ANSYS Workbench session For more information on journal and log files see Journals and Logs p 17 Design Point Log Files During a design point update the parameter values of each successfully updated design point are written to a CSV log file in the user_files directory For more information see Design Point Log Files in the DesignXplorer help Importing Legacy Databases ANSYS Workbench offers seve
314. n s F A lbf V SI kg m s K A N V U S Engineering Ibm in s R A Ibf V You cannot edit or delete predefined unit systems ANSYS Workbench also provides the following additional unit systems These are suppressed by default Metric g cm s C A dyne V Metric kg mm s C mA N mV Metric kg um s C mA N V e Metric decatonne mm s C mA N mV U S Customary Ibm ft s F A Ibf V Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 12 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options e Consistent CGS e Consistent NMM e Consistent UMKS e Consistent BIN e Consistent BFT For a detailed description of unit systems for the Mechanical application see Solving Units You can also display values as defined and display values in project units See Units Menu p 264 for more information on using these options Custom Unit Systems Use the Duplicate option to create a custom unit system based on a predefined unit system The default name for the new Unit system is Custom Unit System You can change the name You can change the units for any quantity type from the available list e The list of units that are available are either consistent with SI or US Customary depending on the original unit system This to assure that a consistent unit system can be constructed for solution
315. n EKM Repository 1 Save your Workbench project 2 Select the File gt Register Session with Repository menu option 3 If you don t currently have an open repository connection the Open Connection dialog displays Create a new connection as described in Creating a Repository Connection p 119 or open an existing connection as described in Opening a Connection p 120 4 Once a repository connection is open the Register Session with Repository dialog displays The Register with field contains the name of the currently selected repository Go up one directory to see other connections In the example below there are two connections one to a Default workspace with the server in Shared mode and one to an Individual workspace with the sever in Individual mode In this example you can see that the connection to the Default workspace is opened For more information on workspace types and server modes see the ANSYS EKM User s Guide Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 121 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM You can register any of the available connections on the connections list For more detailed inform ation on working with the connections list see Working with Existing Repository Connections p 120 A Register Session with Repositc Register with Default servername123 win company com Name
316. n Workbench select Tools gt Options 2 In the Options dialog expand the Project Reporting option in the navigation tree 3 Select the After exporting report automatically open in default browser check box to launch your default browser and load the report immediately upon generation If you do not select this option you will need to navigate to the report file and open it manually Including CFD Post Data in the Project Report To include CFD Post data in your project report 1 On the Project Schematic right click the Results cell for a ANSYS CFD analysis system or Results system and select Properties 2 In the Properties view under Project Reporting select the Publish Report check box Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 86 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Help 3 Repeat for each Results cell to be included in the project report Note Only 2D content such as graphs and figures are supported in the project report If interactive 3D content exists it will be displayed in 2D format Generating Project Reports The content and status of the project determine the content of the report The project report reflects the current state of the project at the time the report is generated To generate a project report select File gt Export Report Report Content for Projects with Design Points If the project includes para
317. n eer Mea ATE aI Ge 23 Me ch anical sinen i aie ae a e E Tea E E E i Scotus wena sad ES e Ded e a rE 25 Microsoft Office Excel Options cccceessscccccecceesseseneeeeeecceseceesnneeeeeeeeceseeessaeeeeeeceseeeeesaeeeeeeeeeseees 26 MASSING cerisiers tiee i E eee NE EEE A EAE EE E E aT Ee i 26 D sign Exploration Option siese iin a i EEEE E E E E E a 27 Geometry IMPO a aa ea aa ee a r E EIENEN Ne AE EEEE EE NET ERLE Eo E ESAO 27 Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench ssssessssssssssssssssseessssressssreessssressssstessseresssereesssseeesssrresse 28 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab essssssessessessssseesssssesssssressssreessstessssstessstessseresssssteesssreesset 33 Adding Systems to the Project Schematic s sssessesssesesssessessssseesssrressstressssreessssressssttessseresssereesssreessseeet 33 Naming and Renaming Systems ssssseessessesssssesssssressssreesssreessssreesssttessssteessstessssteesssetessseeesssseeessseesse 37 Working through a SYSTEM 056 ean cdietestvnutseenseoow sas cauastenvedaaicesWeunavang eovesanaeunarenradeare eal a a aa ana 38 Defining your Simulation Geometry s iscevsscodiaisadsensnvessacessaasgersnneddedssadsea soos vadavsaanraoauarstadueoannrenstee 39 Basic Mechanical Analysis Workflow ic s usissssvanedsraesaeatvaysasteasyenaniies savosvaidesdeaksdygannadalevcuvnyavedwaabadeaienayt 40 Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Workflow Seciovesssevex next oudieeioieanans onsen ra dbianainindad amd ea
318. n interactively right mouse click and select Edit in Mechan ical APDL or Open in Mechanical APDL as explained below in Mechanical APDL Context Menu Op tions p 226 To launch the Mechanical APDL application with input and reference files specified right mouse click the Analysis cell and select Add Input File or Add Reference File Then select Edit in Mechanical APDL The Mechanical APDL application will launch in interactive mode and the input file s specified will be piped to the Mechanical APDL application and processed in the order listed After all of these files are processed the Mechanical APDL application remains active and you can continue your analysis using the standard Mechanical APDL application interface Any action you take in the Mechanical APDL application will not be reflected in ANSYS Workbench state indicators or parameters Be aware that any time you launch the Mechanical APDL application ANSYS Workbench does not log or record the actions that occur in the Mechanical APDL application If you make changes in the Mechanical APDL application be sure that the changes are reflected appropriately in the input files To maintain connectivity such as to read output parameters use the Update capability either at the project level or at the appropriate system cell level To save Mechanical APDL changes from an open session you must include a SAVE command in one of your input files The ANSYS Workbench save capability does not i
319. n the Mechanical help for the file requirements for using this system Note If a file imported into External Model tool is updated and you want systems connected to External Model to use the data then you must manually re read the data and update the External Model and any downstream systems Consequently you must use care when at tempting to use parameters and design points with projects that include External Model systems Specifically these systems will not automatically re read imported files or be updated as parameters and design points are updated Associativity between External Model and Mechanical When making updates to a model using the External Model component in Workbench all geometry scoping on objects such as loads results etc is lost in the downstream environment Therefore you should use either imported named selections or criteria based named selections to scope the downstream objects These scoping features automatically update when the upstream model updating is complete Creating and Configuring an External Model System To create an External Model system 1 Drag an External Model system from the Component Systems Toolbox onto the Project Schematic 2 To display the External Model tab double click the Setup cell or right click and choose Edit from the context menu You can now add the files in the Outline view 3 To add files a In the Location column you may browse to local files using the Browse
320. n the pending state can reconnect successfully System Coupling is not supported UDFs are supported but you must have a supported compiler on Windows 32 bit and 64 bit machines Supported compilers for Windows are Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional On Linux UDFs are supported You can always send UDFs between Linux machines and make use of the auto compile feature if the machines have compatible compilers you can send precompiled UDFs For additional information about compiling Fluent UDFs see Compiling UDFs in the Fluent UDF Manual Solution Properties Use Setup Launcher Settings The Properties view of the Fluent Solution cell has a toggle that controls whether the solution uses settings from the Setup Launcher When Use Setup Launcher Settings is checked the Launcher Settings are copied from Setup component to Solution component This copying also happens any time you change the Launcher settings in setup When Use Setup Launcher Settings is cleared the Solution cell s Launcher settings are available General Precision Default Single Precision Applicable to RSM Yes Show Launcher at Startup Default Enabled Applicable to RSM No Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 64 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench Display Mesh Af
321. nXplorer systems can be further updated once the remote project update is completed For more information see Submitting Projects to Remote Solve Manager RSM for Remote Up date p 49 Abandon Pending Updates Use this option if you have a remote or background solve process some component or components in the project were saved in a Pending state and attempts to reconnect have failed This option will ignore any results calculated thus far and return the project its normal state If you use this option you may need to manually remove processes that were not stopped or files that were not removed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 263 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference License Preferences Opens the License Preferences for User dialog box Use this dialog box to specify which licenses at your site you want to be able to use and to specify which licensing method to use For details on using the License Preferences for User dialog box click Help in the dialog box or see Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench p 28 Release Reserved Licenses Use this option to manually release a reserved license if a job hangs or a reserved license is not released normally for example if you delete a project that contains pending updates using reserved licenses Select the project for which you want to release licenses
322. naeeeeeeeess 6 Project SchematiciLinksS sosisini aaien a EE EAEE aA aaia iaa 6 Project Schematic WOrkflOW drinrissin iea a E EEA aa Aa Eai Guceaat 8 Configuring ANSYS Workbench ennn anrr aa e a da e eE e a aie iS 9 Customizing the Toolbox on the Project Tab esssesesssssessseseesssssesssssressssteesssrtessssreessseressseteesssetessssreessse 9 Configuring Units in Workbench ssssesssssessssssesssssesssseressssresssssressssteesssstessssreesssteessssreesssetessseteesssseeesse 10 Setting ANS YS Workbench Options ss srsirsrresisrrssrrrsisirornsisesrrisisrrraseroraris vag mene srs isiro iaieiiea 13 ProjectM nagement sin enre a aena oe aE aa Ena a E io a ran e a aa san E AE ANETE SATA 14 Appedrante ieor ndie oies iite EEEO EEA AS DNESKA NSSE A EEDENI KAESO NO DEA E DESNE E NOSE EREET ESOO os E DESNISA SS ai 15 Regional and Language Options sesssssessessssssssressssseesssstessssressseteessstessssrtesssttessseeessseesseseesssseres 16 Graphics Interactioniin aaaea A AE A a A A alias 16 Journals and LOGS sni snra E E ae EAE a E a E E E Gi 17 Project Reporting crie rtn anea eraa e Eea E Oraa t E a EEEE Er EOE TEE 18 Solutio Proc SS iniiis e a aa a a a a a a ia aisiara 19 REPOSITORY siiente a a iia a as ea deiin ia aE 20 EXTENSION Siar eeno eren aE aE ETE Ee DEEA E Ae ENES EET TEETE TER aE TASE Torn E ETS 21 Mechanica APD sa as a e La AEE e susan a E A A A a a EET E A AST e asus 22 T D OEE EE A EE E E E 22 Fuentes na aae a a a Ea a ea E aa an
323. name Title Background Color background color used for axis name Show Hide Grid if checked show a grid for this chart axis Automatic Range if checked use automatic scaling for the axis otherwise use the Range Minimum and Range Maximum if they fall within the data bounds Range Minimum set minimum range of axis 82 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with the Chart View e Range Maximum set maximum range of axis Is Logarithmic if checked set axis scaling to be logarithmic if linear if unchecked e Is Usability if checked display a line bar plot of the cross section data in a perpendicular direction to the axis direction Legend Properties Legend properties can be set by right clicking on the legend border or background and selecting Edit Properties or can be set as part of the general chart properties Be sure not to click on one of the legend variables since the properties for that variable will be displayed rather than the legend properties The legend properties include e Visible if checked displays the legend for the chart Style displays the legend entries either horizontally or vertically and allows the legend to be expanded in the same direction if it provides any benefit defaults to vertical Foreground Color sets the color of the legend border
324. nature of the transfer such as Transfer CDB File Note on connecting to Mechanical systems Named Selections and Coordinate Systems that are added to a solved Mechanical system will not be immediately reflected in downstream Mechanical APDL systems They will be available in future solution attempts To open the Components workspace to select Mechanical APDL parameters double click the Analysis cell or right mouse click and select Edit From the Components workspace you can select Mechanical APDL parameters or specify setup properties such as command line options memory settings number of processors etc When you add an input file via the context menu ANSYS Workbench automatically searches the file for potential parameters SET GET assignments etc Those parameters are then displayed in the Properties view when that input file is selected in the Outline view To use one of those parameters check that parameter s check box in the Property view and indicate whether it should be used as an input or an output parameter Input parameters are sent to Mechanical APDL with the value specified upon Update After the Update ANSYS Workbench retrieves the output values from Mechanical APDL and sets those values in ANSYS Workbench Note The presence of a EXIT command in the input file causes state and parameters to malfunction Make sure you remove this command before adding the input file To launch the Mechanical APDL applicatio
325. nch Interface Reference e You can refresh the data which will read the upstream data but will not perform any long running operation For instance if the geometry changed thus placing the Mesh cell in a Refresh Required state a refresh on the mesh cell would update the geometry without generating a new mesh which could potentially be a lengthy operation Update the cell which would refresh the data and regenerate any output data The advantage to simply refreshing a cell rather than performing a full update is that you can be alerted to potential effects on downstream cells before updating and can make any necessary ad justments This option is especially useful if you have a complex system in which an update could take significant time and or computer resources a P Attention Required All of the cell s inputs are current however you must take a corrective action to proceed To complete the corrective action you may need to interact with this cell or with an upstream cell that provides data to this cell Cells in this state cannot be updated until the corrective action is taken This state can also signify that no upstream data is available but you can still interact with the cell For instance some applications support an empty mode of operation in which it is possible to enter the application and perform operations regardless of the consumption of upstream data Update Required F Signifies that local data has ch
326. nd confidential information 182 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Other input parameters are set The following table describes the actions performed by ICEM CFD according to these conditions Table 11 Updating ICEM CFD Projects Blocking Replay Blocking Input Other Input Actions performed File Parameters Parameters by ICEM CFD No No No No 1 Runs tetra default meshing 2 Saves the unstruc tured mesh 3 Saves the project Yes No No No 1 Runs hexa default meshing 2 Saves the unstruc tured mesh 3 Saves the project No No No Yes 1 Sets all input para meters 2 Runs tetra meshing Runs prism meshing if any Part PART_NAME Prism input para meters exist See Setting Parameters for Prism Mesh ing p 191 3 Saves the unstruc tured mesh 4 Saves the project No Yes No Yes 1 Sets all input para meters 2 Runs the Replay file 3 Saves the unstruc tured mesh 4 Saves the project Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Systems Blocking Replay Blocking Input Other Input Actions performed File Parameters Parameters by ICEM CFD No Yes Yes Yes 1 Sets all input para meters except block ing parameters 2 Runs the Replay file 3 If blocking now ex ists a Sets blocking
327. new dependent system Drag a system from the Toolbox move it over cells in the existing system to preview available drop targets and drop the system on the desired target The new system will be created downstream on the Project Schematic Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 44 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Creating and Linking a Second System The following animation demonstrates the various drop targets and their results For example se lecting the Geometry cell as the drop target will result in a second system that will share the Engin eering Data and Geometry data Selecting the Model cell as the drop target will result in a second system that will share the Engineering Data Geometry and Model data The preview for each drop target will indicate how the new system will be connected to the existing one If you select the Solution cell as the drop target the preview will show the text Share A2 A4 Transfer A6 meaning that the data for cells A2 A3 and A4 Engineering Data Geometry and Model in the following animation would be shared and data from cell A6 in this case Solution would be transferred as input to the new system It is important to review each potential drop target carefully to ensure that you select the target that best suits your needs Note that in addition to the red linked drop targets you can also preview the green in
328. new project will be created in the name of the project cell If a DesignModeler system is used the geometry will be imported into Icepak automat ically Otherwise the geometry needs to be created in Icepak using Icepak primitive objects Note The geometry can be exported from the HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor cell to a Geometry cell and imported to the Icepak cell using DesignModeler Electronics In Icepak go to the File menu and select EM Mapping and Volumetric heat losses or Surface heat losses The Volumetric heat losses panel contains the following inputs A list of solid objects onto which the loss information can be mapped For these objects Icepak requests the heat source loss terms from the Ansoft application Solution contains available solution sets Since the HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor application may have multiple solutions lcepak will request the generated heat source data for the selected solution Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 211 ANSYS Workbench Systems Frequency contains available frequencies Icepak will request that the HFSS Maxwell Q3D Extractor application provide the heat source data for the selected frequency Figure 6 Volumetric heat losses Yolumetric heat losses ALPHA MAIN PCB CAPACITOR CAPACITOR CPU HEAT_SINK KB MEMORY MEMORY1_1 SERIAL_PORT
329. nfidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 247 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Toolbox 3x DUCETI B Analysis Systems Design Assessmer A 8 serk Explicit Dynamics 2 Engneerng Data m 2 Engineering Data 4 Fluid Flow Blow 3 Geometry 7 4 a3 gt Geometry ws Fluid Flow Extrus 4 Model Z u4 Model ik Fluid Flow CFx 5 Setup 7 5 Setup P reg bea nag 6 Sokttion Fs 6 Solution 7 Resuts 4 7 Resuts ae Harmonic Respon Hydrodynamic Dif Modal ANSYS Static Structural ANSYS al Hydrodynamic Tir Linear Buckling PR E Magnetostatic F 1 Modal 7 R Modal Samcef Date Modified Location X Random vibration e Response Spectru 1 5 2006 2 08 19 PM C My Documents Projects My test E Rigid Dynamics T a reee TE E Shape Optimizatio Engineering ao My Documents Projects Static Structural 3 materalengd A2 82 14KB Data Fie 6 3 2009 1 36 52 PM peigne Static Structural zj i a Engineering C My Documents Projects My test View Al Customize 4 W sys engd A4 B4 14KB Data Fie 6 3 2009 1 36 52 PM models simpletest_fles dpO giobal j Ready Show Progress show 0 Messages Right click any of the cells and select Open Containing Folder to open your operating system s file manager to the folder containing that file In most cases you should not
330. nguage selected at in stallation or the language specified via this option You can also manually edit the Languageset tings txt file to specify the language If you manually edit the languagesettings txt file the ANSYS Workbench user interface will display in the language you specify upon startup You must exit ANSYS Workbench and start a new session for changes to the language option to take effect ANSYS Workbench will look for the Languagesettings txt file in the following locations in order 1 Sappdata Ansys v150 on Windows or HOME ansys v150 on Linux 2 lt install_dir gt Ansys Inc v150 commonfiles Language Windows or lt install_dir gt an sys_inc v150 commonfiles language Linux Be aware that not all external applications may be translated therefore you may see some applications text and messages in English even if you have specified a different language Graphics Interaction Specify project management options including mouse button behavior your pan zoom rotate behavior and selection defaults The Mouse Button Assignments category includes options for setting the various button controls on the mouse as well as button combinations with the Shift and Ctrl keys Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 16 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Setting ANSYS Workbench Options The Pan Rotate and Zoom category s To Zoom
331. not be transferred and the user will need to re solve The system cell state will indicate the need to re solve Transfer Data From New Creates a second dependent connected system with the existing system Update If data is changed or modified you can perform an update You have the option to incorporate the changes in the Refresh Input Data view and initiating the solver inside lcepak See DesignModeler to Icepak for a further description of the update option and how the Refresh Input Data panel is used Note You must open the Icepak editor before doing an update Refresh If data is changed or modified you can perform a refresh You have the option to incorporate the changes in the Refresh Input Data panel See DesignModeler to Icepak for a further description of the refresh option and how the Refresh Input Data panel is used Note You must open the Icepak editor before doing a refresh Rename Renames the system or cell Properties Displays applicable cell properties in the Properties window Quick Help Displays a quick help panel for the cell Quick help provides a brief description of how to use the cell in its current state You can also click on the blue triangle in the lower right corner of a cell to view quick help The Solution cell actions are similar to those of the Setup cell however there are additional actions and functions These are described in the list below Use the right mouse button to initi
332. not change the Update Option setting for the next run Set the default execution control conflict option for the Solution cell If you add or change Execution Control in ANSYS CFX Pre in a way that conflicts with the execution control settings stored in the Solution cell by default an error message appears when you attempt to update the Solution cell You can modify this behavior as follows Warn the default enables you to decide on a case by case basis When there is a perceived conflict between the two sources of execution control settings a warning message appears This enables you to resolve the conflict by right clicking the Solution cell and selecting Edit Run Definition You can then choose to use the execution control settings from either the Setup cell or the Solution cell for either this run or for all subsequent runs until you change this Options setting Use Setup Cell Execution Control cause the execution control specified by the Setup cell to be used This is the equivalent of right clicking the Solution cell and selecting Using execution control from Setup cell always Use Solution Cell Execution Control cause the execution control specified by the Solution cell to be used This is the equivalent of right clicking the Solution cell and selecting Using execution control from Solution cell always Resolving Execution Control Conflicts If you add or change Execution Control in ANSYS CFX Pre in a way that conflicts with the
333. nt to be updated starting from DPO the default Update Design Points in Order will cause each design point to be updated starting from the previous design point You can also specify in which order the design points will be updated so that the efficiency of the op eration is improved For instance if several design points use the same geometry parameter values it is more efficient to process them together in order to update the geometry only once In the table of design points the Update Order column shows the order number for each design point To view the Update Order column right click in the table and select Show Update Order By default it matches the order of appearance in the table but you can modify it in different ways e By editing the values in the Update Order column By sorting the table by one or several columns and then right clicking in the table and selecting Set Update Order by Row This option will regenerate the Update Order for each design point to match the sorting of the table e Automatically by right clicking in the table and selecting Optimize Update Order This option will analyze the parameter dependencies in the project and scan the parameter values across all design points in order to determine an optimal order of update This operation modifies the Update Order value for each design point and refreshes the table Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confiden
334. ntry in the details view The graphics will render a contour plot of the imported data at the specified row Additionally this data can be exported out of Mechanical by right clicking the tree object and selecting Export Source Point Analytical Transformations Analytical transformation options can be applied to the source nodal locations You can enter constant or functional values that will be applied to the x y and z or r theta z for cylindrical values read from the input file from within the External Data User Interface For a complete list of supported functions go to Expressions Quantities and Units p 98 The order of operations for conversion of the original node locations into a format the common mapping utility uses must be taken into consideration when setting up analytical transformation functions rotation and translation information The nodal data as well as any unit system information is read into the common mapping utility If any nodal analytical transformation values or functions are provided they are applied directly to the nodal coordinates as they are read in from the file If the data is provided in a cylindrical system it is converted into Cartesian coordinates Once the nodes are in Cartesian all nodal data is converted into MKS so that the mapping utility stores all data in the same unit system If any rotational information is provided this is applied next followed by any translations Read Apply ana
335. nts E Design Exploration 1 ka E Input Parameters Direct Optimization 2 e Engineering Data V 4 8 z Static Structural 41 Parameters Correlation 3 w Geometry a4 i P5 Tensile Yield Strength v E Response Surface 4 Model Ya b P10 HOOP_Height 7 C T Ie o 7 uh Six Sigma Analysis A 6 G Sotin v4 b P12 HOOP_Dist 7 RA Parameters Parallel 7 Results a4 b P13 PIPE_Thickness v Ww Design Points vs Parameter 8 pa Parameters E Output Parameters Static Structural E Static Structural A1 pd P6 Geometry Mass 13 pa P14 Safety Factor HOOP Minimum 14 pd P15 Safety Factor PIPE Minimum p Parameter Set 15 E Charts 16 ov WN Parameters Parallel Goal Driven Optimization 3 E Response Surface gt 4 optimization Aa J Goal Driven Optimization F view Al Customize Examples of the Outline view include the Outline of All Parameters on the Parameter Set tab and the Outline of Schematic on an application tab For detailed information about using the Outline view for parameters and design points see Working with Parameters and Design Points p 93 Properties View The Properties view allows you to see properties for the Project Schematic systems cells and schematic links The specific items shown in the Properties view varies according to what you ve selected Toolbox A ax Properties of Schematic A5 Solution E ax E Analysis Systems 4 Design Assessmer operi electric 1 General Explicit D
336. nvoke the Mechanical APDL SAVE command Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 225 ANSYS Workbench Systems When you add an input file you will see the files listed in the files detail view Files will be processed in the order shown You can change the order in which the files are processed by dragging the files into the proper order To delete files right mouse click the file to be deleted and select Delete To stop a Mechanical APDL batch run view the Progress window Click the Stop button on the Progress cell Mechanical APDL Context Menu Options When the Mechanical APDL system is active in the schematic use the right mouse button to initiate the following Analysis cell actions Edit Opens the Components workspace where you can specify Mechanical APDL parameters and setup properties This is the default action Edit in Mechanical APDL Launches the Mechanical APDL application interactively and reads the input files If the state is currently up to date ANSYS Workbench sets the state to Update Required at this time even if you do not make any changes in the Mechanical APDL application Open in Mechanical APDL Launches the Mechanical APDL application interactively without reading any input files Any action you take in the Mechanical APDL application will not be reflected in ANSYS Workbench state indicators
337. o Version Control Remove from Version Control Controls whether the project is under version control When a project is under version control changes can be made by only one user at a time Get Exclusive Control Release Exclusive Control Controls whether you have the exclusive use of a repository project that is not under version control Access Control Status Displays the Access Control Status dialog box which displays the version control status the name of the person who currently has the file checked out if any the version number the name of the user Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 260 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench whose check in last modified the file s version number the date the file was last modified and any stored comments Important When you display the Access Control Status dialog box the Manage Repository Project menu items are refreshed with the most recent information from the repository Launch EKM Web Client Select this option to launch the EKM login screen to access the EKM workspace EKM will display in your default browser using a currently established connection If you already have connections established to more than one repository you will be asked to select the connection to use If you do not already have a connection established you will see an error message Choose Open from Reposit
338. o build a Modal analysis system Then follow the instructions below Alternatively you can select double click Random Vibration from Custom Systems in the Toolbox This option creates a random vibration system template that includes both the modal analysis and random vibration analysis system templates with the links pre defined 1 From the modal analysis system right click on the Solution cell and select Transfer Data to New gt Random Vibration 2 Anew random vibration system is created with the Engineering Data Geometry Model and Setup cells linked from the modal analysis system Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 145 ANSYS Workbench Systems 3 Right click the Setup cell in the random vibration system and select Edit or double click the Setup cell to open the Mechanical application In the Mechanical application window set your random vibration controls using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Random Vibration Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a random vibration analysis in the Mechanical application 4 On the Toolbar click Update Project Response Spectrum A response spectrum analysis has similarities to a random vibration analysis However unlike a random vibration analysis responses from a response spectrum analysis are deterministic m
339. o run the ANSYS Mechanical solver for the design point study using eight parallel processes for each design point you must reserve the necessary HPC license s to enable eight parallel processes one HPC Pack or six processes of ANSYS HPC The HPC Parametric Pack Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 116 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points license allows all design points to run using eight way parallel processing If n design points are updated simultaneously this scenario will use nx8 cores while consuming only one HPC Pack or six processes of ANSYS HPC as well as the license that enables the Mechanical solver If a design point update involves more than one solver the parallel licenses that you reserve are available for use with both solvers running sequentially For example if you define a design point study that uses both an ANSYS Mechanical and an ANSYS Fluent license and you specify that you want to use 8 parallel processes for Mechanical and 32 processes for Fluent you must reserve sufficient HPC licenses to enable 32 parallel processes 2 HPC Packs or 32 processes of ANSYS HPC The HPC Parametric Pack license then allows all design points to run using up to 32 way parallel with both solvers involved in the design point study If you update n points simultaneously this scenario will use nx8 cores for ANSYS Mechan ical and nx32 cores
340. o the project that are upstream of the updating cell then the cell will not be in an up to date state when the solution completes Note When up to date cells are connected to cells in a different type of system the state of the up to date cells may change to update required This behavior occurs because additional files have to be generated to satisfy the newly added system For example if you build a Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX system that is up to date as shown below v A 2 0 Geometry 3 Mesh 4 Setup 5 amp Solution 6 Results el er el Se Single phase and then connect the mesh to a Fluid Flow Fluent the mesh files for CFX Setup are the only files that will have been generated by the update process After connecting another system to the up to date Mesh cell the Mesh cell transitions to the Update Required state to signify that additional files must be generated in order to satisfy the Fluent system v B Fluid Flow CFX 1 E 2 Geometry v 2 seup ae 4 Setup Zj FLUENT 5 Solution Va 6 Results y Single phase The cells already connected to the Mesh cell will transition to the Refresh Required state after the Mesh cell is updated and updating the project will unnecessarily re update the previously up to date cells CFX Setup Solution and Results As such if this is the desired project structure we recommend that you establish the connection to the Fluent system before updating components downstream o
341. obs requiring multiple design point updates HPC Parametric Packs enable you to simultaneously update multiple design points of a single design study while using only a single license of each required base license HPC Parametric Pack licenses can be used for design point updates initiated from DesignXplorer To use HPC Parametric Pack licenses you must use the ANSYS Workbench reserved licensing feature HPC Parametric Packs enable a specific number of simultaneous design points as follows 1 HPC Parametric Pack 4 simultaneous design points 2 HPC Parametric Packs 8 simultaneous design points 3 HPC Parametric Packs 16 simultaneous design points 4 HPC Parametric Packs 32 simultaneous design points 5 HPC Parametric Packs 64 simultaneous design points You can use a maximum of five HPC Parametric Pack licenses per design study If you reserve more than one license of an individual licensed product the HPC Parametric Pack license will multiply only one of the licenses allowing four simultaneous design points when used with 1 HPC Parametric Pack If you have multiple licenses specified in the Reserved Licenses panel when you add an HPC Parametric Pack license the number of licenses will be decremented to one HPC Parametric Packs also work in conjunction with ANSYS HPC and ANSYS HPC Pack licenses Use the HPC licenses to enable multiple parallel processes to be used for each design point For example if you specify that you want t
342. oject to control where you run the solution update process You can choose from the update options listed here The Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 50 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench defaults for these options are determined by the settings specified in the Solution Process preferences under Tools gt Options Note If you are sending solve jobs to a remote computing cluster note that the license preferences set for your local machine the RSM Client may not be the same as the license preferences set for the remote cluster machine the Compute Server In this case the Compute Server license preferences will be used for all jobs For more information see Establishing User Li censing Preferences Run in Foreground the default manner of running where solutions are run within the current ANSYS Workbench session This option is appropriate for quick running solutions that fit within the resources of your workstation This option is also the most robust as it is not possible to make changes that impact the current solution When a solution is executing in the foreground you cannot change or save the project but you can interrupt or stop the solution Note For Polyflow and CFX component or analysis systems you can switch an update in progress on the local machine to background
343. olid Edge par asm psm pwd SolidWorks SLDPRT SLDASM STEP stp step EA Empty Cell If you do not need to make any additional changes to your geometry you can continue working through the analysis as described in the next sections If your geometry needs to be modified before continuing with your analysis you can edit the geometry in DesignModeler After modifying the geometry in DesignModeler or importing a DesignModeler file the icon in the Geometry cell will change to a DesignModeler icon For a file imported and then mod ified in DesignModeler you can open the file in DesignModeler and the DesignModeler model tree will indicate the original source of geometry After the geometry is defined you can share it with other systems See Data Sharing and Data Transfer for more information on sharing geometry systems For detailed CAD related information specific to the ANSYS DesignModeler application and ANSYS Workbench see the CAD Integration section of the product help When accessing the ANSYS Workbench Help from the Help menu click the Contents tab and open the CAD Integration folder in the hierarch ical tree to access the CAD Integration section Basic Mechanical Analysis Workflow After introducing a new Mechanical analysis system to the Project Schematic and assigning an appro priate name the focus is typically directed to the Geometry cell because this is usually the first cell in the syst
344. olution node name in cluding cell ID Example MyWorkstation MyProject DP0 Model A4 Static Structural B5 Solution B6 For CFX Fluent Polyflow Mechanical APDL jobs client machine name Workbench project name design point name System name Component name including cell ID Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 54 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench Example MyWorkstation MyProject DPO CFX Solution C3 Note System Coupling is not supported under RSM The following sections describe how to use the Solution Process settings to submit a job to RSM for each of the solvers where applicable Submitting Mechanical Jobs to RSM Submitting Fluids Jobs to RSM Exiting a Project during an RSM Solution Cell Update Submitting Mechanical Jobs to RSM See the following sections for more information Submitting Mechanical Application Jobs to RSM Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to RSM Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to HPC via RSM Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to PBS via RSM Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to LSF via RSM Submitting Mechanical Application Jobs to RSM 1 Configure your remote solution settings via Remote Solve Manager See RSM Installation and Configur ation for more information 2 From the Project Schematic double click the Solution cell in your Mechanica
345. olved the observed monitor update frequency will be less Solution monitor data is transferred via the CFX Solver Manager which has a limited capacity to handle monitor data transfer requests In situations where multiple users are using the same CFX Solver Manager to monitor runs or where multiple runs are being monitored by a single user the update frequency of monitor data may decrease or become sporadic When monitoring RSM updates CFX Solver Manager will not report run completion The Out File window will show the completed run information however CFX Solver Manager s workspace will still display Running Note that in these cases Workbench will accurately report update completion Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 61 Working in ANSYS Workbench Submitting CFX Jobs with Design Points to RSM When performing a Design Point update with a CFX system via RSM the Component Execution Mode and Max Number of Processes Per Job settings on the Parameter Set Properties view control the parallel processing settings that the CFX Solver uses For details see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM Submitting CFX Jobs to HPC via RSM If you have a Microsoft HPC queue available you can use that as a parallel solution option In the Solution Processes pane 1 Set the Update Option to Submit to
346. ometry cell in system A and the Geometry in system B Solution data from System A is provided to the Setup cell of system B as indicated by the connector with the round terminator At a glance you can see the data relationship between the two types of analysis systems Project Schematic a va xX v A v B I 89 SST 2 Geometry Pig 2 Engineering Data v 3 Mesh 2 Ta 3 Geometry Dhi 4 Setup P 4 Model T 5 Solution 2 5 Setup sda 6 Results Pi 6 amp Solution Tt Fluid Flow FLUENT 7 Results Pu Static Structural Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 8 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Configuring ANSYS Workbench Information about configuring ANSYS Workbench can be found in the following sections Customizing the Toolbox on the Project Tab Configuring Units in Workbench Setting ANSYS Workbench Options Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench Customizing the Toolbox on the Project Tab When you open ANSYS Workbench the Toolbox view on the Project tab contains different systems you can add to your project divided into five categories Analysis Systems p 135 Component Systems p 149 Custom Systems p 240 Design Exploration p 242 External Connection Systems p 243 For descriptions of system categories and individual systems see ANSYS Workbench Systems p 135 In the Toolbox view th
347. onse analysis system to apply ocean environment forces wind wave current to a structure 1 Adda Hydrodynamic Diffraction analysis template to the Project Schematic and attach a geometry to it 2 Add a Hydrodynamic Time Response analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Hydrodynamic Diffraction system in the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox sharing the Geometry Model and Solution cells from the Hydrodynamic Diffraction system 3 Specify the Aqwa settings by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Edit 4 In the Aqwa application window complete your Aqwa analysis using the application s tools and features 5 Start the solution by selecting Solve from the Aqwa application or Update from the Solution cell in the Project Schematic You also have the option of importing a previously saved Aqwa aqdb file by selecting File gt Import from the Workbench toolbar choosing Files of Type AQWAWB Database aqdb and navigating to the database file See Importing Legacy Databases p 78 for addition information For detailed information on working with Aqwa in ANSYS Workbench see Aqwa Introduction What is Aqwa available in the ANSYS online help In addition please see the separate Aqwa documentation that can be accessed from Start gt All Programs gt ANSYS 15 0 gt Help gt AQWA gt AQWA Reference 15 0 IC Engine IC Engine Internal Combustion Engines in Work
348. onstant parameters hybrid initialization is dane Writing Settings file C Users cebutor AppData Local Tonp witing rp variables Done witing domain variables Dane For more information about the External Connection Add in see the External Connection Add In Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 244 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference The following user interface components are discussed in more detail Tabs within Workbench Views within Tabs Cells in Workbench Menus in Workbench Tabs within Workbench Project Tab When you open an ANSYS Workbench project it opens to the Project tab This is the main workspace where you ll interact with your project and build your analysis By default the Project tab shows the Toolbox view and the Project Schematic view Application and Analysis Tabs Some cells on the Project Schematic launch ANSYS applications that open in separate windows outside of the Workbench environment Examples of applications that are hosted inside Workbench are Engineering Data External Data System Coupling and DesignXplorer All the cells in these systems open into separate tabs All the rest of the cells on the Project Schematic open tabs inside Workbench tabs for ANSYS applica tions that are hosted in Workbench and tabs corresponding to cells representing specific analys
349. ontains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 267 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference Clear Generated Data Reset Deletes ANSYS generated files created during Update or Edit Files added via input links or Add xxx File are left intact Deletes all files in the Mechanical AP DLSystem directory and resets any properties as set in the Property view back to default Any schematic input links remain intact and the needed files are copied back into the system upon Refresh Any manually added files Add Input Reference will be deleted and removed from Outline view No additional action required Deletes fedb and sets any properties Properties view back to default Link to Engineer ing Data Deletes FiniteElementMod elMaterials xml No additional action required Link to Mechanic al Model cell Deletes FEModeler File rsx FEModeler File fedb ACMOFile dat No additional action required Link to Geometry Deletes Parasolid File x_t Link to Mechanic al APDL Deletes ANSYSInput File inp Link to imported case and other input files set tings and pos sibly other input files Closes Fluent session without saving data Deletes all internal files Links to imported files are deleted but file is not deleted If Mesh is coming from an up stream simulation Mesh cell the file i
350. option or to files stored on an EKM repository using the Browse from Repository option For more information on Browse from Repository see Importing Repository Files p 131 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 174 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems When you click Open the selected file names and locations are automatically displayed in the Data Source column You can enter descriptions for the files in the Description column Optionally you can right click a file or files in the Outline view and use the context menu to duplicate them All files whether imported or duplicated can be sorted or filtered Once you have opened your files use the Properties window to modify the unit system and or coordinate system transformation properties These properties transform the mesh coordinate systems of the sub assemblies for proper alignment in Mechanical If you select multiple files in the Data Source column the Properties view displays A value when that value is the same for all selected files A blank field when values differ between selected files A yellow field when a value is required but not currently specified for at least one of the files If you edit any field in the Properties view when multiple files are selected your change is applied to all files Caution Although you can multi select files in the Dat
351. or BladeEditor Vista CCD can be used to model an existing compressor and if known its measured performance at single operating points An accurate 1D model can provide insight into the performance of the machine that goes beyond the test measurements Drag the Vista CCD or Vista CCD with CCM component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Vista CCD component system is comprised of one cell a Blade Design cell Double click the Blade Design cell to open the cell properties where you can specify the solution parameters generate a solution and view the results Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 238 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems The Vista CCD with CCM component system is comprised of two cells a Blade Design cell and a Per formance Map cell Having created a satisfactory design in Vista CCD using the Blade Design cell you may then predict the overall performance of the designed compressor stage using the Performance Map cell For more information about Vista CCD see Vista CCD help Vista CPD Vista CPD is a program for the preliminary design of pumps It creates impeller geometry data for use in BladeEditor It may be used to generate an optimized 1D pump impeller design before moving rapidly to a full 3D geometry model and CFD analysis Drag the Vista CPD
352. or enable Use Workbench Color Scheme to keep the ANSYS Workbench background graphics colors and display defaults in Icepak You can enable this option by performing a right mouse click on the Setup cell and selecting Properties Enable the option by clicking the check box under the Value column DesignModeler to Icepak CAD models created or edited in DesignModeler can be imported into Icepak Icepak instructs Design Modeler to export the current DesignModeler geometry into Step file format so it is readable by Icepak The procedure to transfer Geometry upstream to Icepak is described in this section 1 Double click Geometry in the Toolbox under the Component Systems node or drag and drop the Geometry template into the Project Schematic v Cc 2 Geometry P Geometry indicates that an input file is needed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 201 ANSYS Workbench Systems 2 In the Project Schematic double click the Geometry cell to launch the DesignModeler application or right mouse click to display the context menu Select New Geometry to create a geometry in Design Modeler You can import any geometry or load an existing DesignModeler geometry by performing a right mouse click on the Geometry cell and selecting Import Geometry from the context menu c l 2il Geometry v 4i Geometry indic
353. or individual systems using the Solution or Analysis component for Mechanical APDL Mechanical Fluent CFX and Polyflow systems These settings will override the Component Execution Mode and Max Number of Processes per Job defined in the parameter set Before updating a component right click the Solution or Analysis component to expose the properties information Under Restriction for Design Point Update Via RSM enable Serial Execution Only if solving in serial If solving in parallel enable Specify Number of Processes Restriction and enter the number of processes in the text field below across from Number of Processes Used Not to Exceed Note These settings will only override the serial parallel settings for that specific system For Mechanical APDL and Mechanical if solving in parallel enable Specify Number of Processes Re striction enter the number of processes in the text field below across from Number of Processes Used Not to Exceed and enable Shared Memory Parallel Note Shared Memory Parallel allows jobs to strictly run in parallel on the master node It does not run jobs in distributed parallel You can specify Geometry in the Pre RSM Foreground Update property if you want to update your geometry locally prior to submitting design point update s to RSM Note Pre RSM foreground update of geometry is necessary when design points will be updated simultaneously via RSM the geometry update infrastructure does n
354. ordinate text entry to x 0 9 When the Coordinate System Type is cylindrical the X Coordinate will refer to the radius and the Y Coordinate refers to the angle By default each X Y and Z Coordinate is set to x y and z Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 156 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems Description For a complete list of supported functions see Parameters For an example see Source Point Analytical Transformations p 168 Note When the Dimension type is 2D the Z Coordinate is not shown Rotations resulting from specified analytical transformations do not get applied to mapped data pressure displacement force in a downstream Mechanical system Table 7 Properties View Rigid Transformation Section Property Description Origin X Y Z and Theta XY YZ ZX Enables you to apply a coordinate transformation to the source points The source locations are transformed by the coordinate system defined by the Origin and Theta entries For example applying an X value of 1 meters would modify the x locations of all the source points by adding 1 meters to their values The option Display Source Points on an im ported load object inside Mechanical respects this transformation and can be very helpful in assuring proper alignment between the source and target points This option is useful
355. ore a previously generated archive file After you select the project archive to be restored you will be prompted for the name and location where the restored file s are to be located After the archive is extracted the project will open in ANSYS Workbench See File Menu for a complete description of the Restore Archive option in ANSYS Workbench Note You can also extract the archive manually by using an unzip utility and then opening the wbpj file Icepak Context Menu Options When the Icepak system is active in the schematic use the right mouse button to initiate the following Setup cell actions Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 199 ANSYS Workbench Systems Edit Launches Icepak This is the default operation Import Icepak Project From tzr Brings up a Browse dialog box to add an input file then launches Icepak and reads the input files This is the default action This option is available only when a project is empty Import Icepak Project Brings up a Browse For Folder dialog box to add an input file then launches Icepak and reads the input files This is the default action This option is available only when a project is empty Duplicate Creates a duplicate of the Icepak system and any upstream data If the duplicate operation is performed on a system containing a solution the solution will
356. ormation of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 131 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM Checking for Newer Versions of Imported Files ANSYS Workbench allows you to check for newer versions of a file imported from the repository The checks can be done either automatically when the project is opened via the File gt Open menu item or manually at any time via the File gt Get Changes from Repository menu item You can also check for newer file versions manually at any time as follows 1 Select the File gt Get Changes from Repository menu item 2 The Check Repository for Imported Files dialog opens Click Yes to check for newer file versions Some files in the project are imported from repositories Do you want to check the repositories for file updates T Save my choice and don t ask this question again 3 If you do not want to be prompted to check for updates to imported files select the Save my choice and don t ask this question again check box to save your preference to the Workbench Tools gt Options dialog Your preference will be saved to the Workbench Tools gt Options dialog and will be used the next time you open a project contains files imported from a repository For details on configuring how Workbench checks for updates to imported files see Repository p 20 4 The Refresh Files Imported from Repository dialog opens showing a list of imported files with changes in the rep
357. ormulas Data Review View Developer 3 a 6 a w g S 43 Define Name h Taa fe SP Use in Formula ate Trace neat Logical Tet Date amp Lookup amp Math More Nay Time v Reterence amp Trig gt Functions v Manager IR Creste from Selection 7 Rem Refers To J Feul 1 9C 9 lt E WB Mass feuil C 11 D WE Radus 120 Feull C 3 J WB_Stress 70 6 Feul 1 C 10 WB_Thickness 2 Feull C 7 A named range can contain several cells Workbench expects the named ranges to contain either one or two cells the first cell being reserved for the value and the second cell being reserved for the unit string if any If a named range contains more than two cells it is ignored Note If you added the file to the Excel system in Workbench before naming the ranges or if you wish to edit the names of the ranges after the addition of the file you can right click on the Analysis component or the file node in the Outline and select the Open file in Excel oper ation This opens the Excel file used by Workbench in Excel All changes performed in Excel impact the state of the data in Workbench and invalidate the results be sure to save your changes and Reload the file afterwards when editing the Analysis component right click on the file node and select Reload Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 233 ANSYS Workbenc
358. ory to launch the EKM connection wizard to establish a connection for the first time Save to Teamcenter Teamcenter is a software package designed for computer aided product data management Use this option to save the current project into the Teamcenter database You can then open the project dataset in ANSYS Workbench For more information on using the ANSYS Teamcenter connection see the Cad Integration section of the ANSYS Workbench help Import Imports a legacy database and converts it to the appropriate systems in the current project You can also use this option to assemble multiple legacy databases into a single project Archive Generates a single archive file that contains all project files This archive will include the project file and all files in the project name_files directory with a few optional additions exceptions that you can specify e result solution items imported files external to the project e items in the user_files folder The archive will be saved as a Workbench Project Archive wopz or a Zip zip tar gz file Previously imported external files from a restored archive directory are treated as internal files if archived again See Archiving Projects p 75 for details on archiving projects Restore Archive Restores a previously generated archive file After you select the project archive to be restored you will be prompted for the name and location where the restored file s are to be located After th
359. ository To download the newer version of a file select the Download check box for that file and click OK 5 When the new file version is downloaded to the project the state of an up to date cell changes to Refresh Required Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 132 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Troubleshooting Changes have occured in the repository for the following files since they were imported to this project Ensure the checkboxes are checked for all the files you would like refreshed and click OK to get their changes from the repository 8080 Default Repository thermo dat http localhost 8080 Default Repository propellant dat Note While it is possible to download newer versions of imported files from the repository you cannot send local changes to the files back to the repository To change a file in the repository open the EKM Web Client and overwrite the existing file with a newer version Troubleshooting If you encounter problems connecting to or using an EKM Repository review the following hints and tips For additional help also refer to Appendix N Troubleshooting in the Engineering Knowledge Manager To be able to connect to an EKM repository the EKM server must be running on the target machine Connect to Server Using Web Browser If you encounter problems with connecting to an
360. ot support simultaneous design point updates in the same source geometry If the project includes a Geometry component and you have set the Default Job Submission property either to One Job per Design Point or to Specify Maximum Number of Jobs with Maximum Number of Jobs set to a value greater than 1 ANSYS Workbench will ignore the Pre RSM Fore ground Update property setting and the geometry will be updated locally in the fore ground before your design points jobs are sent to RSM Pre RSM foreground update of geometry may also be useful in other situations such as Your RSM Compute Servers are not configured to perform geometry updates for example if they do not have the necessary CAD software installed e You are submitting design point updates to a Compute Server that may not have the same licensing preferences as your local machine For example if you are submitting a geometry update that requires BladeModeler licensing to RSM but the license preference of the remote Compute Server is set to DesignModeler the geometry cannot be updated on the remote 110 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points machine The remote licensing issue can be addressed by a local geometry only update prior to the submission of the design point update 9 Save the project If you are working in an archived proje
361. ote When you attempt to add an invalid system for example if the mesh type is not compatible with the system you are attempting to add the drop target preview will be visible but the system will not be added when you release the mouse Details are written to the Messages View p 251 Adding a System using the Context Menu You can add a system to the Project Schematic by right clicking on white space in the Project Schematic The context menu includes a list of New Systems options allowing you to select the system category and a specific system within that category the system options reflect your Toolbox configuration For example to introduce a new Static Structural system right click on Project Schem atic white space and select New Analysis Systems gt Static Structural as shown below Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 35 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab Toolbox File view Tools Units Extensions OSB roe EB Import S Reconnect 2 Refresh Project Analysis Systems Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow E Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow amp Fluid Flow CFx Fluid Flow Fluent Fluid Flow Polyflow Harmonic Response Hydrodynamic Diffraction Update Project Update Project
362. ou are working Both tabs include an Outline view a Properties view a Table view and a Chart view that display parameter and design point data in different formats These views allow you to see the interaction of parameters between applications providing you with greater flexibility and the ability to run optimization and or what if scenarios Related Topics Working with Parameters in the Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab Working with Design Points in the Parameter Set or Parameters Tab Working with Parameters in the Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab The process of working with parameters begins when you define a parameter in an application such as your CAD system Mechanical or Fluent For information on defining parameters refer to the docu mentation for each application with which you are working ANSYS Workbench recognizes parameters defined in the individual applications and exposes them in a Parameter Set that can be shared by multiple systems The Parameter Set bar is the visual repres entation of the project s full parameter set and allows you to open the Parameter Set tab The Para meter Set tab includes all of the parameters defined for all of the systems in your project with each parameter identified by their system of origin Additionally each system with parameters has a Parameters cell which allows you to open the corres ponding Parameters tab i e multi system projects can have multiple Parameters tabs The
363. our language If you run the English version of Excel and the locale for the current user is configured for a language other than English Excel will try to locate the language pack for the configured language If the language pack is not found then the error is reported and the automation of Excel as used by the Excel as a Calculator feature cannot be performed To solve this issue you have to install the Mul tilingual User Interface Pack of Microsoft Office for your language As an alternative you can also con figure the locale for the current user to English This bug is documented by Microsoft For more information see http support microsoft com kb 320369 Polyflow Polyflow allows for the analysis of fluid flows with free surfaces complex rheology including non Newtonian behavior with viscoelasticity heat transfer and chemical reactions The usage of Polyflow involves specifying the computation models inside Polydata which is the module for problem setup and running the calculations using the Polyflow solver Polyflow also comes with several useful utilities which can be accessed via the right click menu on the Setup and Solution cells For example Polymat can be used to calculate material properties including viscoelastic parameters based on experimental data For more details please see the product documentation There are three Polyflow fluid flow analysis systems available in Workbench The Polyflow system provides the
364. ove between them or right click them to view available context menu options such as Close Tab Close Other Tabs and Close All You can also close individual tabs by clicking the x icon Only the Project tab cannot be closed For more information see Tabs within Workbench p 245 Workbench Views Tabs in Workbench are made up of multiple views that can be reconfigured according what information you want to be shown in the tab Some views are common to multiple tabs while others are tab specific Some views are only shown in the tab for which they ve been enabled while others once enabled are shown across all the tabs either until you either disable them or reset the tab layout The configuration and persistence of the views across tabs varies to give you the maximum flexibility in customizing the information you see on each tab The header bar of each view contains icons and context menus that allow you to control view attributes such as visibility size and floating docked state You can access the context menu either by clicking the down arrow or by right clicking in the header To open a view select it from the View menu For example if you re in the Project tab and select View gt Outline the Outline view will be shown in the Project tab Once the view is open it will update its Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 2 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiarie
365. pdates by clicking the Used Licenses tab See Tracking Licenses p 115 You can add licenses to the reserve from this list as well To reserve more than one license of a given type click on the license in the Reserved Licenses panel and either click Add multiple times or type in the number of licenses in the Change Number Selected box at the bottom of the panel When you have selected all of the licenses you need to reserve click OK The selected licenses will not be checked out at this time license checkout occurs only when you begin the update Update your design points either directly or as a result of updating Design Exploration systems and components The selected licenses will now be checked out and held for the duration of the update Restrictions You will see only those licenses that are available on license server machines that are in your license server path specification You will not see or be able to reserve licenses from other license servers All machines used in your design point study must use the same license server If the license server you are using is part of a triad and the triad s master server goes down subsequent li cense checkouts will behave as standard checkouts rather than checking out licenses from the reserve pool You do not need to reserve licenses for DesignXplorer components because DesignXplorer does not check licenses out of the reserve pool 114 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights
366. perties to verify the Tolerance Angle of the model The following properties are provided Modify the properties as needed Tolerance Angle The Tolerance Angle determines if adjacent elements are of the same face during the geometry creation process The geometry creation process identifies groups of element facets on the exterior 176 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems of the mesh These generated facets create geometric faces in Mechanical Then skin detection al gorithm scans the exterior element facets and groups them based on a tolerance angle For example two adjacent element facets are grouped into the same face if the angle between their normals is less than or equal to the given tolerance angle Therefore an angle tolerance of 180 degrees creates only a single face for the whole body while a tolerance of 1 degree creates an amount of geometric faces which approaches the number of element faces if any curvature is present Calculations to synthesize geometries using tolerance angles use the explicit method This method is overridden if Nodal Components are processed The default Tolerance Angle is 45 degrees This is the recommended setting Process Nodal Components This option overrides Tolerance Angle during the geometry creation process if the cdb file contains node based components
367. plorer User s Guide Design Point States On the Parameters tab the output parameters that display in the Outline and Table views display states Their states are indicated visually as follows Output parameters that are up to date have no icons only the value of the output parameter is shown 7 Output parameters that are out of date are indicated by the Update Required icon have not been solved or local data has changed so an update is needed Either they Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 117 Working with Parameters and Design Points Output parameters that have failed to update are indicated by the Update Failed Update Required a icon During cell system project and both local and remote design point updates the states of output parameters are updated in the Parameters tab Outline and Table views to reflect the results of the update Changes elsewhere in the project could cause the state of some but not all output parameters to go out of date and require update In those cases only those output parameters affected by the changes will be shown as update required Output parameters that are not affected by the changes will remain up to date Changes to derived parameters or associated expressions are recalculated immediately rather than re quiring an update If you add or
368. port FLUENT Case Fluent with TGrid meshing Fluent with TGrid meshing also known as Fluent Meshing or Fluent in meshing mode allows for meshing as well as fluid flow analysis of incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries You specify the mesh in Fluent in meshing mode then proceed to set up the computational models materials boundary conditions and solution parameters using Fluent in solution mode where the calculations are solved Use a Fluent with TGrid meshing component system to model incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries for your project Within Fluent in meshing mode a computational mesh is imported and manipulated Switch to Fluent in solution mode where pertinent mathematical models are applied e g low speed high speed laminar turbulent etc materials are chosen boundary conditions are defined and solution controls are specified that best represent the problem to be solved Fluent solves the mathematical equations and results of the simulation can be displayed in Fluent for further analysis e g contours vectors etc Drag the Fluent with TGrid meshing component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Fluent with TGrid meshing component system is com prised of three cells a Mesh cell a Setup cell and a Solution cell Double click the Mesh cell to open Fluent in mesh
369. pported by the license For example you cannot share a Mechanical license with a Fluent application Single License Sharing in ANSYS Workbench Applications ANSYS Workbench applications handle single license sharing differently The Mechanical Application You can launch the Mechanical application and move between its components such as Meshing Setup and Solve The active component will control the license while completing its operations and will release the license as soon as the operation is completed For example when you mesh the Meshing component will control the license during the meshing operation and then immediately release the license when the operation is completed The other components will remain in a read only mode while Meshing uses the license allowing you to view the data in other components but not operate on it Note Applications in read only mode because of shared licensing do not refresh their license status automatically Once the shared license is released by the editor that had consumed it you must trigger Mechanical to query the license status The most straightforward way to do this is click outside the Mechanical application window and then click back in the window to cause the license availability to be rechecked The Mechanical APDL Application This application consumes a license as soon as you launch it and retains that license until it is finished If you launch the Mechanical APDL application interac
370. presence or absence of blocking if no blocking exists in the project tetra is the default Conversely if blocking exists in the project hexa is the default mesher Updating a Project To update a project and refresh upstream and downstream data right click on the Model cell and choose Update Interface Differences in the Data Integrated ICEM CFD The data integrated ICEM CFD interface has been modified to provide additional functionality that en hances the integration of ICEM CFD and Workbench You can ensure that you are working within the data integrated environment by checking the Message window within ICEM CFD The first line identifies that the application is integrated in the Workbench environment One click menus that enable you to control basic project and Replay Recording functions Note If you create Workbench Input Parameters and want to step through the script line by line or using a line range you must open the Workbench Replay Control dialog from this menu The Workbench Replay Control dialog enables you to test and edit Replay scripts created within Work bench Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 185 ANSYS Workbench Systems You can ensure that you are working within the data integrated environment by checking the Message window within IICEM CFD The first line identifies that
371. prietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 221 ANSYS Workbench Systems 1 Select Static Structural from the Toolbox and drag and drop this cell on top of the Icepak Solution cell B3 2 Right click on the Geometry cell A2 and drop it on top of the Static Structural Geometry cell D3 The geometry is now shared v B v E 1 g Icepak 1 2 we Setup v 4 2 VY Results 4 LELETTTTTTTTTTTTTYTTTTTTTTTTT Geometry 3 Solution v 4 Results Icepak v D 2 Engineering Data YW 4 3 w Geometry oY 4 4 Model a 5 amp Setup Pa 6 Solution Be 7 E Results Pog Static Structural 3 Double click on the Model cell D4 to launch Mechanical 4 Click on the Imported Body Temperature object This object is found under the Imported Load Solution item 5 In the Details section ensure Geometry Selection is selected for the Scoping Method Click the Box tra R Single Select BS Box Select button Rox seet hold down the Ctrl key and drag a box around the entire model to select it Click Apply next to Geometry Nine bodies should be selected 6 Across from Icepak Body select All 7 Click Solve Step 9 Summary In this tutorial you imported CAD objects and set up a problem You then created a non conformal mesh using the hex dominant mesher This forced convection problem was solved for flow and heat transfer and the results were examined on contours and
372. purposes e Changing base units can automatically change Common and Other derived units if appropriate For ex ample if the mass unit is kg the length unit is m and the force unit is N then changing mass to g and length to cm will automatically change force to dyne Setting ANSYS Workbench Options Select Tools gt Options to set your preferences for ANSYS Workbench The preferences you set here are local settings affecting only you Some changes made via the Options dialog will take place imme diately while others won t take place until you start a new session Use the Restore Defaults button to reset the settings visible on the current page to their default values settings on other pages will remain unchanged You can set user preferences in the following categories Project Management Appearance Regional and Language Options Graphics Interaction Journals and Logs Project Reporting Solution Process Repository Extensions Mechanical APDL CFX Fluent Mechanical Microsoft Office Excel Options Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 13 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Meshing Design Exploration Options Geometry Import Project Management Specify the following project management options File Locations Specify default folders for permanent and temporary file locations You can specify two settings Defa
373. put to the static structural Setup cell See the Steady State Thermal analysis and the Initial Temperature discussions in the Mechanical application help for more information Adding a Custom System To add a custom system to the Toolbox build the system to your specifications in the Project Schematic Then right mouse click in the Project Schematic and choose Add to Custom Type in a name for your custom system and press Enter The new custom template appears in the Toolbox under Custom Systems User defined custom templates can also be deleted by right clicking on the template in the toolbox and selecting Delete The following animation demonstrates adding a custom system This animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 241 ANSYS Workbench Systems Awa spring Workbench others Fie View Tools Units Extensons Heb Calea Ji ith Project 2 Custom GUI gg Import tecomnect A Refresh Project J Update Project B Analysis Systems B Component Systems B Custom Systems k ar bd p ce E EJ Random vibration 2 EngnrecringData yo 2 Engneering
374. r design given a set of parameter values where output parameter values have been calculated by an update of the project The project that you interact with via the Project Schematic is always the Current design point DPO You cannot rename or delete Current DPO but you can add new design points via either of the following methods e Duplicate an existing design point Right click a design point in the Table of Design Points and select Duplicate When you duplicate a design point all parameters parameter values design point states and design point Export settings are copied You can then modify any of these values as required Create a new design point Enter a parametric value in a cell in the bottom row of the Table of Design Points as shown in the following animation The following Show Me Animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 101 Working with Parameters and Design Points eas yj Import R ect Refresh Project F Update Project J Update Ab Design Points N T State Ssucturai 2 Engneering Data p 3 Geometry y v 4 Mo
375. r Fluid Flow simulations you can also start with an imported mesh or case file see Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from an Imported Mesh p 42 for details Specifying Geometry via the Context Menu 1 Right click the Geometry cell 2 Choose New Geometry to launch DesignModeler and create a new model or choose Import Geometry and browse to an existing CAD model Alternatively you can also launch ANSYS Workbench directly from some CAD systems When doing so ANSYS Workbench starts with a Geometry system in place and the CAD file already attached After you have attached or imported your geometry the state appears as Up to Date and the icon in dicates the type of file imported Geometry types include eos ACIS sat ANSYS Neutral File an Autodesk Inventor ipt iam BladeGen bgd CATIA v4 model dlv CATIA v5 CATPart CATProduct Creo Elements Direct Modeling pkg bdl ses sda sdp sdac sdpc EK amp i gt Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 39 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab Creo Parametric formerly Pro ENGINEER prt asm E DesignModeler agdb FE Modeler fedb IGES iges igs JT Open jt BEgee Monte Carlo N Particle mcnp T NX prt Parasolid x_t xmt_txt x_b xmt_bin o amp S
376. r Import Details DesignModeler files agdb can be imported through context menu import Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 80 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with the Chart View agdb and modeldv files can be imported via File gt Import e Links with other cells are automatically generated when agdb files that are present in the Release 11 0 wbdb project are imported into the appropriate system Mechanical Model or other appropriate system Parameters contained in the agdb file will not be immediately published to the Project Schematic in terface They will be published when the DesignModeler application is opened e CAD files that were imported into the agdb will not immediately be registered in the Files view of the Project Schematic Registration of these files will occur when the DesignModeler application is opened Additional Meshing Import Details e Links with other cells are automatically generated when cmdb files that are present in the Release 11 0 wbdb project are imported into the appropriate system Mechanical model or other appropriate system e CFX Mesh files gtm c x can be imported via context menu import from the Mesh cell of a Mesh system Working with the Chart View The Chart view is available for Workbench applications Applications can display data using a number of different basic c
377. r ParalelCharto M n 5 8 aA oe APDL 0 75 1 55 3 95 1 13 2 9683 19 9 pa P3 m 27600 o 10 pa P4 w 1 1214 D n pa P5 G1 2 465E 07 A 12 pa P6 G2 1 8313E 07 EF 44 E hars gi I NA Parameter es of Outline B4 P1 ax A B 1 Property Value 2 General 3 Expression 0 4 4 Description 5 Error Message 6 Expression Type Constant a Dege Lahi 0 35 115 2 65 1 05 2 4183 1 8 Quantity Name P1 P2 P3 x10 P4 P5 x107 P6 x107 Related Topics The Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab Parameters Design Points The Parameter Set Tab or Parameters Tab At the project level for the most part you will work with parameters and design points in two different workspaces the Parameter Set tab and or the Parameters tab The Parameter Set tab includes all of the parameters and design points in all of the systems in the project while a Parameters tab includes only the parameters and design points in the selected system Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 93 Working with Parameters and Design Points To access the Set tab or a Parameters tab double click the Parameter Set bar or a Parameters cell Alternatively you can right click either one and select Edit from the context menu For information on defining parameters refer to the documentation for each application with which y
378. r Tabs Available for all tabs when multiple are open If accessed from the Project tab closes all other tabs If accessed from another tab closes all tabs except for the one selected and the Project tab Close All Available for all tabs except for the Project tab Closes all tabs including the selected tab except for the Project tab Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 269 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference System Header Context Menu Options The following options are available from the context menu for system headers Be Static Structural 2 2 Engineering Data 7 Update 3 Geometry 4 Model a Duplicate 5 Setup F Replace With 6 amp Solution B Clear Generated Data 7 Results F gg Dete EH Rename Static Structural Properties Refresh Refreshes all cells in the selected system Update Updates all cells in the selected system along with any cells in upstream systems that provide data to them Duplicate Duplicates all cells No data will be shared between the two systems Equivalent to issuing a duplicate on the first cell of the system Replace with Enables you to switch the analysis or solver type for an existing system This functionality is available only from systems that use the Mechanical application Valid systems that can replace the existing system are
379. r moving systems it is important that you place receiving systems to the right of sending systems All processing of data updates etc also occurs in the same direction from left to right and top to bottom Again be aware of this order when placing or moving systems Most analysis systems are defined by three primary attributes physics type analysis type and solver type ANSYS Workbench uses these attributes to determine valid data transfer and system replacement possibilities For more information on the types of systems see ANSYS Workbench Systems p 135 View Tools Units Extensions Help Project Reconnect Refresh Project Update Project Project Schematic E Analysis Systems Design Assessment Electric Explicit Dynamics Fluid Flow Blow Molding Polyflow Fluid Flow Extrusion Polyflow Fluid Flow CFX Fluid Flow Fluent fC Fluid Flow Polyflow GY Harmonic Response A Hydrodynamic Diffraction Hydrodynamic Time Response E Show Progress Show 4Messages Related Topics Adding Systems to the Project Schematic Naming and Renaming Systems Working through a System Creating and Linking a Second System Duplicating Systems Moving Deleting and Replacing Systems Adding Systems to the Project Schematic The first step in building an analysis is to take one or more systems from the Toolbox and add them to the Project Schematic ANSYS Workbench offers the following methods of
380. ral methods to import databases from earlier releases 1 Context Menu Import The file can be imported via a cell s context menu To import a file using this method you first create the appropriate system and cell and then import the file into the cell via the context menu 2 File gt Import The file can be imported via the File gt Import menu The proper systems and cells are created and populated with the data from the imported file However you must launch the associated application or editor to use the imported file You can also drag and drop one or multiple files from Windows Explorer onto the Project Schematic These files will be treated as if they were imported via File gt Import 3 Project Import The file can be imported as part of an earlier release s project import The file must be listed as part of the earlier release s project file s contents When the project file is selected via the File gt Import menu all necessary systems cells and links will be established and populated with data from the various files that made up the earlier release s project In each of these cases you must launch the associated application to use the imported file which is typically the same application that was used to edit the file in the earlier release In other words the imported files are not undergoing any transformation in this release of ANSYS Workbench Rather access to the files is being coordinated through the Project Schematic
381. reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 169 ANSYS Workbench Systems 10 000 mm 2 500 7 500 Within the External Data System User Interface you can enter analytical transformation values as either constants or as functions of x y or z For our example we want to scale the source radius that is X Coordinate by 90 Applying a constant analytical transformation scale factor to the radius that is X Coordinate of the cylindrical source nodal locations Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 170 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 4 B C i ey OOOO O e e Definition 3 Dimension iD 4 Satimpotatline 2 foo 5 FormatType Delimited I 6 Delimitertype t Ho o 7 Delimiter Character Tab 8 tenghumt mm Aoo 9 Coordinate System Type Cylindrical l Analytical Transformation ee gt OO Se veo O S a zo o OO Rigid Transformation is Orignx o m H o a a m De men fo fan al o me o oeoo l w me o fren Updating the schematic and looking at the imported load we see the analytical transformation value has been applied to the nodal locations and now coincides with the target model Imported temperature load with transformed source points displayed Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Cont
382. rials Or choose from the following analysis types Fluid Flow CFX Static Structural I j 4 Online Help Online help is available from the ANSYS Workbench Help menu or from any of the links in the quick help or the Sidebar Help view Online help provides a comprehensive discussion of all ANSYS Workbench features and capabilities and includes a full search capability Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 88 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Troubleshooting aioli Bile Search History Bookmarks Tools Help lt gt ah A jad ANSYS Documentation gt Workbench gt User s Guide E ANSYS Documentation E ANSYS Inc Release Notes Global 1 Advisories 2 Installation 3 Licensing 4 ANSYS Customer Portal I ANSYS Structural Products II ANSYS Fluids Products H 1 Fluent GH 2 CFX 3 TurboGrid E 4 BladeModeler E 5 CFD Post Ej II 6 Polyflow III ANSYS Electronics Products H IV ANSYS Geometry amp Mesh Pr V ANSYS Simulation Products ich Design Exploration User s Guide G Engineering Data User s Guide User s Guide X Table of Contents Overview The ANSYS Workbench Interface Project Schematic Project Schematic Properties Systems and Cells Types of Cells a ers Seton Understanding Cell States Ansoft a
383. ric analysis in the Mechanical application Explicit Dynamics 1 Add an explicit dynamics analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your explicit dynamics analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Explicit Dynamics Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting an explicit dynamics analysis in the Mechanical application Fluid Flow CFX ANSYS CFX enables you to perform fluid flow analysis of incompressible and compressible fluid flow and heat transfer in complex geometries You import the geometry and meshes specify the materials boundary conditions and solution parameters solve the calculations view the results then create reports using built in tools Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 138 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems To use ANSYS CFX as an analysis system in ANSYS Workbench 1 Add a Fluid Flow A
384. ric analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Thermal Electric Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a thermal electric analysis in the Mechanical application Throughflow The Throughflow analysis system contains cells for conducting a study with Vista TF starting with the geometry and ending with a report It is essentially a Vista TF system with an added Geometry cell For details on the Vista TF system see Vista TF p 239 Transient Structural and Transient Structural Samcef You can perform a transient structural analysis also called time history analysis that specifically uses the ANSYS Mechanical solver This type of analysis is used to determine the dynamic response of a structure under the action of any general time dependent loads You can use it to determine the time varying displacements strains stresses and forces in a structure as it responds to any transient loads The time scale of the loading is such that the inertia or damping effects are considered to be important If the inertia and damping effects are not important you might be able to use a static analysis instead You will configure your Transient Structural analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS Mechanical or Samcef solver to compute the solution 1 Add a Transient Structural analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double c
385. ring projects 71 75 refresh 265 refreshing systems 266 Regional and Language options 16 Remote Solve Manager 49 rename 265 renaming systems 266 replacing a system 48 Reports 18 262 Repository options 20 reset 265 reset data 266 Response Spectrum analysis 135 146 240 Results cell 252 255 Results component system 237 Rigid Dynamics analysis 135 146 RSM submitting Fluids jobs using RSM 60 submitting solutions using RSM 50 submitting Mechanical jobs 55 S saving 259 scripting 261 definition 71 setting journaling preferences 69 setting license preferences 263 Setup cell 252 254 single license sharing 28 Solution cell 252 254 Solution Process options 19 solve manager 50 states 255 common states 255 design points 117 failure states 257 solution specific states 256 Static Structural analysis 135 147 Static Structural analysis Samcef 135 147 Steady State Thermal analysis 135 147 surface data format for External Data 161 system categories 245 System Coupling component system 237 systems 135 149 240 246 adding 33 135 268 component 149 deleting 48 dependent connected 43 duplicating 46 duplicating systems 265 independent 43 linking 43 moving 48 naming 37 refreshing systems 266 renaming 37 266 replacing 48 types of 135 updating systems 265 T tabs 1 245 Tabs Project Tab 33 text files importing into Mechanical APDL 154 174 th
386. rom here you can change the assessment type from the drop down list in the Design Assessment Settings section You can choose between the pre defined types or to use a user defined type If you select the user defined option you will be presented with an open file dialog so you can choose the XML file you want to use The name of this file will then be displayed in the Properties view Electric An electric analysis supports Steady State Electric Conduction Primarily this analysis type is used to determine the electric potential in a conducting body created by the external application of voltage or current loads From the solution other results items are computed such as conduction currents electric field and joule heating You will configure your electric analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution 1 Add an electric analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 Right click the Setup cell and select Edit or double click the Setup cell This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your electric analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Electric Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting an elect
387. rpl Click the Done button Do not close ICEM CFD Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 195 ANSYS Workbench Systems r Replay control in Workbench 2 0 Framework Operations in script 1 Replay file ICEM CFD 15 0 in Workbench 2 0 Framework 2 unloading geometry 3 ic_unload_tetin 4 ic_empty_tetin 5 unloading mesh 6 ic_unload_mesh 7 unloading blocking 8 ic_hex_unload_blocking 9 delete empty parts 110 ic_delete_empty_parts 11 ic_set_global geo_cad 0 toptol_userset 12 ic_set_global geo_cad 0 0 toler 13 ic_undo_group_begin 14 ic_geo_new_family GEOM 15 ic_boco_set_part_color GEOM 16 ic_vid_object box8 GEOM 00 0 0 0 1 1 ic_wb2_get_parameter user_defined ZSIZE 17 ic_set_global geo_cad 0 toptol_userset 18 ic_set_global geo_cad 0 00039 toler 19 ic_set_dormant_pickable point 0 20 ic_set_dormant_pickable curve 0 21 ic_undo_group_end 22 ic_set_global geo_cad 0 00039 toler 23 ic_undo_group_begin 24 ic_set_meshing_params global 0 gmax 0 045 25 ic_save_tetin temp_tetra tin 26 ic_run_tetra temp_tetra tin tetra_mesh uns run_cutter 1 delete_auto 1 run_smoother O fix_holes 1 n_processors 27 ic_set_meshing_params global 0 gmax 0 28 ic geo set modified 1 DE MV Record after current I All commands Do one Do range Delete one Delete all Delete range Renumber
388. rra EE E AA E EAREN E E EEN 262 To ls MENU eini EE EEEE EE EAE EEE EEEE EE RERET 263 Wits MERU oer ienn ann E E E E E E A E E AE E EE E A tives 264 Extensions MENU aana iTA EANA AEE A AIANEI EADARAINN EIA NINENA NEENA 264 Helps MON O E A E S N ENA E EEA 265 Context MENUS ses i cdescecacsebeecacacedecachavsscdcabeeecathebeccedaedeusshuveeedenbececstbebescecesedecathesesedeneessesthevercccstes 265 Common Context Menu Options sssesssesssesssessreessessreesrooossssseesreeosssssseesseoossessseetroossesssessrooo 265 Transfer Context Ment Opti Ns s src esiaine in ieai a a 268 Tab Context Ment Option Sieraimen ieii RE O LEE E E ae 269 System Header Context Menu Options secccccesserseecessenceseesseseeseeseeseesesseeeessesseseesensseseess 270 Project Schematic Context Menu Options sssesssssessssssrssseserssssstessssreesssrressssreesssreessssressssreesse 271 Link Context MENU OPTIONS eiia areira n SEE A EE ERE EE AEE o E E aia 272 ANSYS Workbench Tutorials era esses ts A A EN cia de eee E Eaa A an aE R e 275 GOS SAAN renr ie E a e a eal a e a ae a leda a Gass a E ace Go a aks 277 ae E EP EEEE EEEE NAE AEE AEE E GERMS E BR EESE 281 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information viii of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Overview ANSYS Workbench combines the strength of our core simulation tools with the tools necessary to manage your projects You wil
389. rrupting an update 251 IronPython 71 J journaling 261 command window 71 console window 71 definition 69 playing a journal 70 preferences 69 recording 70 uses 69 Journals and Logs options 17 journals and scripts 69 L legacy databases importing 78 licences releasing Mechanical during batch runs 56 License preferences 263 licenses releasing Mechanical during batch runs 25 Licensing 28 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 282 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Linear Buckling analysis 135 144 linking a system 43 links context menu options 272 LS DYNA analysis 153 M Magnetostatic analysis 135 144 managing project files 71 archiving projects 75 file types 77 importing files 74 importing legacy databases 78 project locking 76 recovering projects 75 Mechanical analysis workflow 40 Mechanical APDL options 22 Mechanical APDL component system 223 Mechanical Model component system 227 Mechanical options 25 Menu Bar 245 menus 245 Mesh component system 228 Meshing options 26 messages viewing 251 Microsoft Office Excel component system 232 Modal analysis 135 145 Modal analysis Samcef 135 145 Model Mesh cell 252 253 moving a system 48 N new project 259 O open a new project 259 Options 13 263 Appearance 15 CFX 22 Design Exploration 27 Extensions 21 Fl
390. rst cell in the system that requires user input An example of both a CFX and a Fluent fluid flow system is shown below 1 TlO CFX Fluid Flow FLUENT 2 Geometry Pi 2 Geometry Ra 3 Mesh P 3 Mesh F 4 Setup Ps 4 Setup Ra 5 Solution Py 5 Solution Py 6 Results P 6 Results Fa Fluid Flow Fluid Flow FLUENT As noted earlier you typically work through the system from top to bottom Use the context menus for each cell to view and select operations that can be performed for that cell For fluid flow systems the process is somewhat flexible you can start from geometry from an existing mesh or from an existing case file each is described in the following sections Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from Geometry 1 Attach geometry to your system or build a new geometry in DesignModeler Right click the Geometry cell and select Import Geometry to attach an existing model or select New Geometry to launch DesignModeler Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 41 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab For details see Defining your Simulation Geometry p 39 2 After your geometry is defined and the Geometry cell shows the green check mark indicating that the cell is up to date you can proceed to the Mesh cell Double click on the Mesh cell or right click and select Edit to launch
391. rties Object New name Solid Material Total Power SERIAL_PORT SERIAL_PORT default 0 0 Watts MEMORY 1 MEMORY_1 Ceramic_material 5 Watts MEMORY1 1 MEMORY_2 Ceramic_material 5 Watts CAPACITOR CAPACITOR_1 default 0 0 Watts CAPACITOR 1 CAPACITOR_2 default 0 0 Watts KB KB default 0 0 Watts HEAT_SINK HEAT_SINK default 0 0 Watts CPU CPU Ceramic_material 20 Watts Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 215 ANSYS Workbench Systems 8 10 Object New name Solid Material Total Power ALHPA_MAIN_PCB PCB Custom PCB solid_material 0 0 Watts Conductivity type Ortho tropic X 20 Y 0 4 Z 20 Note Edit the Solid material by selecting a material in the drop down list To create a Custom material select Create material in the drop down list and click the Properties tab in the Materials panel Enter specifications Resize the default cabinet in the Cabinet panel m Model gt Eai Cabinet In the Cabinet panel click the Geometry tab Under Location enter the following coordinates Table 13 Coordinates for the Cabinet xE 0 03 m yE 0 02848 m Edit the cabinet properties to specify Min x and Max x sides as openings In the Properties tab of the Cabinet object panel select Opening from the drop down menu under Wall type for Min x and Max x Se
392. ry and CPU when the meshing of each design point is long In such cases specify a low number minimum is one of design points before restarts In cases where the meshing step for each design point is short reduce processing time by increasing the number of design points before restarts or prevent restarts completely by disabling this preference Design Exploration Options Specify the following options for the DesignXplorer application Default options are the settings that will be used by default when new design exploration systems are created General options are settings that are used for all design exploration systems Once defined they take effect immediately on all existing systems For a detailed explanation of default options for design exploration and local options for Design of Ex periments Response Surface and Sampling and Optimization see Design Exploration Options in the Design Exploration User s Guide Geometry Import Specify your default geometry import options including 2D 3D types of bodies material properties geometry editor preferences etc You can also define advanced options such as CAD associativity and import behavior Geometry Editor Options Use SpaceClaim Direct Modeler as an External CAD Controls interactions between the Workbench and SpaceClaim Direct Modeler When unchecked default SpaceClaim is fully integrated into the Project Schematic as a geometry editor When checked SpaceClaim is
393. s unregistered and might get deleted if the upstream Mesh cell no longer refers to it All associated input parameters are deleted Launcher settings are set to default value Internal link to initialization data Closes session without saving data Deletes all files currently associated with the cell latest available solution data Any schematic input links will re main intact Transfer Context Menu Options Closes session without saving data De letes all files currently associated with the cell latest available solution data Any schematic input links will remain intact Any imported initial solution data file will be unregistered Only link is re moved file is not deleted All associated output parameters are deleted Launcher settings are set to default value In addition many cells will also include transfer options in their context menu Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 268 Menus in Workbench v PO a 1 Static Structural 2 EngineeringData v 3 Geometry 4 Model Pi Setup 6 Solution 7 Results Duplicate Transfer Data From New 4 CFX Static Str aj Transfer Data To New External Data F Update E FLUENT Clear Generated Data Fluid Flow CFX fresh Fluid Flow FLUENT Reset Icepak BB Rename E Steady State T
394. s a different quantity type For example Length Time results in a quantity with a Velocity unit Expressions support a number of intrinsic functions outlined below These functions support both standard numeric values and quantities as arguments abs arg cosh arg log10 arg sin arg acos arg exp arg max arg list sinh arg asin arg fabs arg min arg list sqrt arg atan arg floor arg nint arg tan arg atan2 arg1 arg2 int arg pow value exponent tanh arg ceil arg log arg round arg PI pi constant cos arg loge arg sign arg E e constant The arguments for trigonometric functions are evaluated as follows If the argument is a number i e real or integer then the argument is evaluated as radians e If the argument is a quantity i e has value and units then the argument must be of type Angle and evaluation is based on the supplied units i e deg or rad You can include units assuming the unit makes sense in context of the expression For example P2 3 mm P3 is valid if mm is a valid unit expression for P2 and P3 e g if P2 is torque and P3 is force or if P2 is area and P3 is length The project unit system is used to evaluate the expressions For temperatures absolute temperature values are used in expression evaluation All quantity values in an expression are converted to the project unit system The general units syntax in ANSYS Workbench is defined as multiplier unit power where multip
395. s and affiliates Workbench Tabs and Views content according to the what you ve selected by selecting different objects you can view or edit the associated properties of those objects To close a view deselect it from the View menu select Close from the header bar context menu or click the x icon in its header bar To change how the view displays use the Minimize Maximize and Restore context options When you minimize a view it appears as a tab in the bottom left corner of the ANSYS Workbench window You can only maximize a floating view you cannot maximize a docked view After you have maximized a view use the Restore option on the Windowing drop down menu to return the view to its pre maximized size and location To resize a view you can use your mouse to drag its edges to the desired size You can also float and redock views By default most views are docked or embedded in their tab By default most views are embedded in their tab You can choose to separate a view from its tab so it can be moved outside of the Workbench window When you redock a view it returns to its place on its usual tab When you float a view you separate it from its tab so it is still available when you switch tabs This is especially useful when you want to see a view that is not available as part of a tab For example the Files view is not visible in the Parameter Set tab but you can float the Files view
396. s card information You can then contact the vendor or visit the vendor s website for details of the latest graphics drivers available for your specific graphics card You may also have to adjust the hardware acceleration To adjust the hardware acceleration go to the Control Panel and choose Display gt Settings gt Advanced gt Troubleshoot or your operating system s equivalent The hardware acceleration slider should then be visible You can also choose Display gt Settings gt Troubleshoot and use the troubleshooting tool to guide you to the Hardware Acceleration panel Try turning hardware acceleration off by dragging the slider to None Try the software again if the graphics problems are resolved then gradually increase Hardware Acceleration as far as you can before the software fails again Limitations Selecting a preference in the Details view while another property is being edited may result in a system failure or freeze on Linux 64 bit operating systems when using KDE K Desktop Environment 3 5 Error Messages Unable to connect to Solver Manager Another application might be using the Solver Manager port 10002 by default Try changing the port number by editing the Ansys SolverManager exe config file located in the installation directory at AISOL Bin lt platform gt If you are getting the Unable to connect to Solver Manager error message or are having difficulty launching other applications editors it is also po
397. s date owner or simulation types contained in the project Use the Saved Queries option to perform predefined public or private queries that have been saved in the EKM repository For additional information on saved queries see Managing Queries and Search Results in the Engineering Knowledge Manager Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 125 Working with ANSYS Workbench and EKM r A Open Project from Repos Open from Default servername 123 win company com Repository x 2 S wbpz x Search Results Name Location Description EKM_Test wbpz Repository A Archive _Test wbpz Repository Project Test wbpz Sample Files Sending Project Changes to the EKM Repository Advanced Search Look in Any Folder All or part of name wbpz Text in properties or content Project date Any File name Workbench Project Archive wbpz z 5 23 2013 to 5 Save local copy to C Users username Documents z Open Cancel A When working with a project that has been saved to or opened from an EKM repository ANSYS Work bench enables you to update the repository with the current project version To update the repository with the changes made in a local project 1 Save the project 2 Select the File gt Send Changes to Repository menu item You can use this option
398. s in the pending state during a batch run Workbench RSM Integration with the Mechanical Application The properties associated with a Mechanical system s Solution cell include a Solution Process section This section enables you to specify the Solve Process Setting for the Mechanical application to use when an Update operation is initiated from Workbench You can select only an existing Solve Process Setting but new Solve Process Settings can be added and existing Solve Process Settings can be modified by selecting Tools gt Solve Process Settings in the Mechanical application Note Any solve initiated in the Mechanical application will ignore the Solution component prop erties selected in Workbench and will continue to work as they have in previous versions Example 1 Default Update with My Computer Set as the Default Solve Process Setting In this case the default Solve Process Setting in the Mechanical application is My Computer In Workbench the Solution Process property Update Option is set to Use application default which causes Mechanical to use its default Solve Process Setting 10 x roject Update Project eS Project Q compat Mode Properties of Schematic 46 Solution Es General Directory Name SYS zt Information Se e Analysis Static Structural EE e 23 Es Solution Process Update Option Use application default Solve Process Ei Setting E Computer Solve Manager eae Queue
399. s subsidiaries and affiliates 5 Overview Related Topics Systems and Cells in the Project Schematic Project Schematic Links Project Schematic Workflow Systems and Cells in the Project Schematic Each system placed on the Project Schematic is made up on one or more analysis components called cells Once all of your systems are in place you re ready to start defining the details of your analysis To do so you generally interact with systems at the cell level Right click the system header or cell to see a menu of available options double click to perform the default action bolded in the context menu You can interact with a cell to perform any of the following actions e launch an application that opens independently of Workbench open a tab inside Workbench add connecting systems either upstream or downstream assign input or reference files assign properties to components of your analysis Each cell has either an application or a tab associated with it Some cells are associated with an applic ation that launches in a separate window such as Fluent or Mechanical in some cases multiple cells in a system can be associated with the same application Other cells such as the Parameters cell or a cell in a System Coupling system are associated with tabs that open inside Workbench Note The Project Schematic may reflect actions you take in applications that open independently of Workbench To add a system to
400. se 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with the Chart View Chart Zoom Pan and Rotate You can manipulate the display of a 3D chart using the zoom pan and rotate features Zoom by using the mouse wheel or Shift middle mouse button Box zoom by using the right mouse button Pan by using the Ctrl middle mouse button Rotate by using the left or middle mouse buttons Pan and rotate by holding down the appropriate key sequence and moving the mouse There are several ways that you can enlarge or shrink portions of the chart in order to view more or less detail To zoom the entire chart click on the chart and use the scroll wheel or Shift middle mouse button to magnify or shrink the chart The chart expands or shrinks as you roll the wheel or move the mouse toward you or away from you remaining centered in the view pane The chart can be panned or rotated when it is magnified To magnify a particular area of a chart right click and drag a box top to bottom over the area you want to view The contents of the box you draw will be magnified to fill the chart view so the smaller the box you draw the closer the magnification on a particular area If you right click and draw a box bottom to top over the chart the chart will shrink to roughly correspond to the size of the box that you have drawn so a very small box
401. se Surface Response Surface Optimization Six Sigma Analysis For an overview of these systems and links to more information about them see What is Design Explor ation Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 242 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates External Connection Systems External Connection Systems The External Connection Add in enables you to integrate custom lightweight external applications and processes into the ANSYS Workbench Project Schematic workflow Features exposed by the External Connection also allow you to perform automation and customization activities With the External Connection you can Integrate custom lightweight external applications Define User Interface Ul elements such as buttons in the Workbench Toolbar or entries in custom menus and create the scripts that enable them Create new systems to facilitate interaction with the Workbench Project Schematic The External Connection Add in provides an External Connection system in the External Connection Systems toolbox The system contains a single External Connection component that acts as a proxy for the external application Ee x Analysis Systems Component Systems E El Custom Systems Design Exploration External Connection Systems External Connection El o Y View All Customize
402. separate mode Use the Licensing Preferences dialog box Start gt All Programs gt ANSYS 15 0 gt ANSYS Client Licensing gt User License Preferences 15 0 to specify which method to use and which licenses to use You must specify the licensing method before starting an ANSYS Workbench session If you access the Licensing Preferences dialog box from the ANSYS Workbench Tools menu you will not be able to choose a licensing preference from there Single License Sharing ANSYS Workbench allows you to work across multiple applications and workspaces in ANSYS Workbench while consuming only one of a single type of license per user per session Using shared licensing the active application holds the license preventing other applications that are sharing that license from using it during that time The application or operation requiring use of the license is called a concurrency event For example meshing and solving would each be a concurrency event Single license sharing allows you to progress through your analysis from specifying engineering data through building or attaching a geometry meshing setup solving and finally reviewing your results all under the same license The application holding the license must close or issue a PAUSE command or receive an automatic release request to release the license and allow another application to use it Licenses cannot be released while an application is actively performing a licensed operation for
403. sics listed first in your preferences The first application starts and only needs capabilities in Mechanical Since Multiphysics contains Mechanical capabilities and is first in your preferences Multiphysics will be checked out The second application starts and needs Multiphysics since Multiphysics is already checked out the second application will share it with the first Only the Multiphysics license is consumed in this session Example 2 You have one license for Multiphysics and one license for Mechanical with Mechanical listed first in your preferences The first application starts and only needs capabilities provided in Mechanical so Mechanical is checked out The second application starts and needs capabilities provided on Mul tiphysics since the already in use Mechanical cannot satisfy its requirements it checks out Multiphysics Both a Multiphysics and a Mechanical license are consumed in this session Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 29 Configuring ANSYS Workbench Restrictions of Single License Sharing You cannot run two concurrency events simultaneously for example you cannot mesh one model and solve another simultaneously with one license If you are using a license for one application other applications may still not be able to share that license if those applications require capabilities not su
404. single link with a label indicating what cells are connected For example if cells 2 3 and 4 are connected between two systems the schematic would show a single line connecting the systems labeled as 2 4 to indicate cells 2 4 This option is off by default You can toggle between off and on by clicking the option in the context menu Show System Coordinates Select this option to display the system row and column labels This option is selected by default Fit Select this option to resize the systems in the Project Schematic to better fit in the window as it is currently sized Add Edit Note Displays an editable panel where you can enter notes about a system or cell There is no limit to the amount of text you can type into a note as you type the panel increases in length You can also edit an existing note by editing the Notes field in the Properties view To close the note click outside the panel To delete a note delete the text within the panel or from the Notes field in the Properties view The content of notes is also included in project reports Link Context Menu Options You can right click a link to see additional context menu options Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 272 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench v A v B 2 EngineeringData v m 2 Engineering Data v 3 Geometry 0
405. sitory if the project is checked out to another user locked by an other user or you do not have write permissions to the project When sending changes to the EKM re pository for a project under version control you can either keep the project checked out check the project back in or check the project in and then check it back out When you check the project in you have the option of adding comments The project version will be updated upon check in Getting Project Changes from the EKM Repository When you open an ANSYS Workbench project that has been previously opened from or saved to an EKM repository ANSYS Workbench checks to determine if a more recent copy of the project exists in the repository If a more recent copy exists you are prompted and given the option to update your local copy with the version of the project in the repository If the project is under version control and is not already checked out either by another user or by yourself you are given the option of checking the project out To update a project with the changes from the EKM repository 1 Open an ANSYS Workbench project that has a more recent copy in the repository 2 The Check Repository for the Project Dialog asks if you want check the repository for changes to the project If you do not want to be prompted to check for project updates in the future select the Save my choice and don t ask this question again check box Your preference will be saved to t
406. ss these settings right click the Solution cell and select Properties Most of the settings in the Properties view are for information only but the Command Line Options setting enables you to send command line arguments to the system coupling service These commands are invoked when the system coupling service is started Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 237 ANSYS Workbench Systems To learn the syntax for the command line arguments see Workflows for System Coupling TurboGrid ANSYS TurboGrid is a powerful tool that lets designers and analysts of rotating machinery create high quality hexahedral meshes while preserving the underlying geometry These meshes are used in the ANSYS workflow to solve complex blade passage problems Drag the TurboGrid component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox Double click the Turbo Mesh cell to run ANSYS TurboGrid You can optionally connect an upstream cell to the Turbo Mesh cell to provide the geometry data If you do not connect an upstream cell to the Turbo Mesh cell then you can load geometry data from within the user interface of ANSYS TurboGrid For more information about ANSYS TurboGrid see ANSYS TurboGrid help Vista AFD Vista AFD is a program for the preliminary design of axial fans It creates axial fan
407. ssible that the Windows hosts file has been corrupted Please make sure that localhost is specified in the Windows lt os drive gt Windows sys tem32 drivers etc hosts file FATAL Parallel capability is not valid for this product If you see this message in the Mechanical APDL output window when attempting to run Mechanical APDL with an ANSYS LS DYNA license commercial or academic from ANSYS Workbench set the number of processors for Mechanical APDL to 1 Tools gt Options gt Mechanical APDL You will then be able to run Mechanical APDL and solve an ANSYS LS DYNA analysis Warning at File myxml line 1 col 40 Encoding utf 16 from XMLDecl or manually set contradicts the auto sensed encoding ignoring it The message above will sometimes be displayed in the RSM log you can ignore it Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 91 92 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with Parameters and Design Points Parameters and design points are native features of ANSYS Workbench From with the various simulation applications you can promote key simulation properties to parameters You can then manipulate parameters at the project level using them to investigate a series of design
408. ssion with an EKM Repository Closing a Connection If you want to close a connection without opening another one 1 Right click on the open connection 2 Select Close Connection from the context menu The Opened status is removed and the license is released but the connection name is retained on the connections list Deleting a Connection If you want to delete a connection 1 Right click on the connection you want to remove 2 Select Delete Connection from the context menu The connection name is removed from the connections list The connection must be recreated in order to use it again Registering an ANSYS Workbench Session with an EKM Repository The EKM My Jobs folder provides tools that allow you to set up and execute jobs in EKM Once a job is displayed in the My Jobs folder you can monitor job status and view job details directly from the folder Integration between the EKM Web Client and EKM Mobile application gives you additional options for monitoring modifying and managing jobs ANSYS Workbench allows you to register your current Workbench session with the EKM repository so that the session displays in the My Jobs folder as well Once the session has been successfully registered a job is created for it in the EKM My Jobs folder The job allows you to perform and monitor various Workbench operations remotely via the EKM Web Client or EKM Mobile application To register your current ANSYS Workbench session with a
409. st save operation Project Locking ANSYS Workbench implements a project locking mechanism in order to help prevent the project from being loaded into more than one session at a time A project is locked by creating a lock file in the project files directory The project is unlocked by deleting the Lock file An improperly unlocked project can occur in situations such as program crash where the lock file is not deleted or if the project files directory is duplicated and the lock file is copied with it If ANSYS Workbench finds a project is locked you will be asked how to proceed If the file is locked because of an abnormal termination such as a program crash you can safely select Unlock and continue If the file is locked because the project is already open in another ANSYS Workbench session you should select Cancel Opening the same project in multiple sessions can result in corrupted project files Notes About Project File Management We strongly recommend that you use caution when directly modifying any of the content in any of the ANSYS Workbench project directories or subdirectories other than user_files You should work through the ANSYS Workbench GUI to manage your project as much as possible ANSYS Workbench may not recognize or be aware of any changes that you make directly in the file system such as adding or removing a file If you have deleted any project files through the file system and not through the ANSYS Wor
410. subsidiaries and affiliates 189 ANSYS Workbench Systems Click the Left Mouse button to select the curve surface or edge for which you want to set parameters Click the Middle Mouse button to complete the selection The surface curve or edge you selected are listed in the selection entry Surface Mesh Setup 7 Surtace s FACE20 ae Select the check box next to the parameter you want as the input parameter Click the Yes button in the pop up dialog to confirm the selection AP in the check box indicates that the parameter for the single surface curve or edge has been created for Workbench Setting the Parameters for All Existing Curves Surfaces or Edges 1 Within ICEM CFD open the Surface Mesh Setup Curve Mesh Setup or Edge Params parameters from the Tab menu Leave the surface curve or edge selection field empty do not select any surface curve or edge Select the check box next to the parameter you want as the input parameter Click the Yes button in the pop up dialog to confirm the selection AP in the check box indicates that the parameter for all existing surfaces curves or edges has been created for Workbench Setting Workbench Mesh Parameters for Parts The Part Mesh Setup parameters enable you to specify the mesh parameters for different parts of a geometry Part Mesh Setup is described in the ANSYS ICEM CFD Help Manual To create a Workbench mesh parameter for a part 1 2 Click the Mesh ta
411. such as during a solve process The disadvantage to this method is that you could potentially consume many licenses Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 30 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Software Licensing in ANSYS Workbench To activate the separate licenses method choose Use a separate license for each application in the Licensing Preferences dialog box Start gt All Programs gt ANSYS 15 0 gt ANSYS Client Licensing gt User License Preferences 15 0 You must specify the licensing method before starting an ANSYS Workbench session Examples of Using Separate Licenses You have two Mechanical licenses When you open and mesh or solve a model in the Mechanical application you consume one Mechanical license If you link that Mechanical analysis to a Mechanical APDL system you would consume a second Mechanical license when you launch the Mechanical APDL application if you have not closed out of the Mechanical applic ation Neither of these licenses would then be available for other users until you closed out of one or both of the applications Explicit Product Licensing Licenses that can be used to start the Mechanical application products are called primary configured tasks Licenses that cannot start a product but add functionality are called add on licenses Most licenses are either one or the other A primary configured task license will
412. systems Specific ally these systems will not automatically re read imported files or be updated as parameters and design points are updated Creating and Configuring an External Data System To create an External Data system 1 2 Drag an External Data system from the Component Systems Toolbox onto the Project Schematic To display the External Data tab double click the Setup cell or right click and choose Edit from the context menu You can now add the files in the Outline view To add files a In the Location column you may browse to local files using the Browse option or to files stored on an EKM repository using the Browse from Repository option For more information on Browse from Repository see Importing Repository Files p 131 When you click Open the selected file names locations and identifiers are automatically dis played in the Data Source column You can enter descriptions for the files in the Description column Table 4 Data Source View Definition Section Property Description Identifier A string that can be used to identify the file in the downstream Mechan ical application Master Enables you to choose a master file so that the system displays and uses the Properties for this file only The nodal coordinate data for the selected master file will be processed by the Mapping Utility Any nodal coordinate data contained in non master files will be skipped 154 Release 15 0
413. systems you can define the units for each quantity name You can display up to 15 unit systems any combination of predefined or custom at a time For detailed information on working with units in ANSYS Workbench see Configuring Units in Work bench p 10 Extensions Menu The Extensions menu provides options for managing the extensions developed for ANSYS products using the ANSYS Workbench Customization Toolkit ACT Manage Extensions Displays the Extensions Manager tool which allows you to specify which extensions will be loaded Build Binary Compiles a binary version of an extension from the scripted version Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 264 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench Install Extension Installs the extension into your Application Data folder and ensures that the extension is available in the Extensions Manager View Log File Opens the extension log file which provides warning or error messages generated by the extension For more detailed information on these menu options see the ANSYS Workbench Customization Toolkit Developer s Guide in the ANSYS Customization Suite Help Menu The Help menu provides options that allow you to access help for ANSYS Workbench or to access help for most ANSYS Inc products including Installation and Licensing help You can also view context sensitive help and
414. t 16 Number of Copies 1 17 Transform the Original 18 Origin X 3 m 19 Origin Y 0 m 20 Origin Z 0 m 21 Theta XY 0 radian 22 Theta YZ 0 radian 23 Theta ZX 0 radian Rigid Transformation for Mesh2 Table 15 Properties View General Properties Description Table 16 This property sets the units for the downstream mesh assembly After the meshes are initially assembled this property becomes read only Afterwords you will have to reset the downstream mesh cell in order to change the Length Unit Properties View Rigid Transformation Section Description Number Of Copies When set to zero default only the source mesh is transformed If you specify a number of copies greater than zero these will be in addition to the source mesh For example if you import a cdb file with a single part and set Number Of Copies to 2 you will get 3 parts in Mechanical Transform Original This property is only available when Number Of Copies is set to 1 or greater Select the checkbox if you want to apply the specified transformation to the source mesh Origin X Y Z These properties allow you to translate the origin of the model along the X Y or Z axis If you specify any copies the translation will be applied relative to the pre vious copy or source mesh in the case of the first copy Theta XY YZ
415. t Delete or Du plicate If those operations are in progress on a separate system you can safely update the current system However if those operations are in progress on the same system that you wish to update or on a system connected to the one you want to update you must wait until those operations are completed before beginning an update If a project contains multiple design points this option updates only the current design point Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 265 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference If a system contains a coupled cell the Update option on the coupled cell will be disabled To update the system that contains a coupled cell you must update the coupled system so that both the coupled cell and all cells dependent on the coupled cell can be updated If a project is unsaved and any cells in your project are configured to use RSM or run in the back ground you must save the project or change the solution process settings of those cells to run in the foreground before you can update Rename Renames the system or cell Refresh Reads in all modified upstream data but does not necessarily regenerate the outputs of the cell In some cases the Refresh option may still be available while other operations are in progress such as Clear Generated Data Reset Delete or Duplicate If those oper
416. t gt Access Control Status to view the full status of the file in the Access Control Status dialog 4 Select File gt Manage Repository Project gt lt action gt where lt action gt is one of the control status related options available to you For example you can Select Add to Version Contro to add the project to version control If a project is already under version control you can select Remove from Version Control to remove it Select Get Exclusive Control to gain exclusive control of the project If the project is already under exclusive control you can select Remove from Exclusive Control to allow others to access the project If the desired option is not available you can view the repository to see which user has made the project file unavailable to you Note When you make the desired change to the repository you need to manually refresh your view of the repository to confirm the change of state Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 130 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Importing Repository Files Importing Repository Files On the Workbench Project Schematic certain system cells allow you to browse the EKM repository for files which you can then import into a Workbench project The Browse from Repository menu option may be available for any cell that already has the local Browse option Note To import files you
417. t parameters If you enable this property for a component the component will be updated when you update design points regardless of whether parameter values will be affected Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 258 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Menus in Workbench Menus in Workbench The following types of menus are available in Workbench Menu Bar Context Menus Menu Bar The Menu Bar gives you access to the following menus File Menu View Menu Tools Menu Units Menu Extensions Menu Help Menu File Menu The File menu you can manage your project files New Open a new project If you already have a project open this action will close the current project Open Open an existing project that had been saved previously If you already have a project open this action will close the current project Save Saves the current project If the current project has already been saved this action will save any changes to the current location If the current project has not already been saved you will be prompted to specify a name and location for the file Note You can also save the current project via the Save icon underneath the File menu Save As Saves the current project under a different name and or location You will be prompted to specify the name and location for the file Save to Repository Saves the current project to
418. t File gt Scripting gt Run Script File Select the journal file to be played back and click Open The previously recorded actions will occur 70 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Project File Management Using the Command Window The command window allows you to invoke commands access data entity properties and invoke data entity and data container methods interactively one at a time 1 Select File gt Scripting gt Open Command Window 2 Enter the commands you want to run one at a time 3 As you enter each command the appropriate action will occur in the ANSYS Workbench GUI The Console Window The console window is the same as the command window but is present when running in batch mode to provide a way of working directly with commands outside of the user interface Scripting A script is a set of instructions to be issued to ANSYS Workbench The script can be a modified journal or it can be a completely new set of instructions that you write directly The creation of scripts requires a general understanding of programming constructs and paradigms ANSYS Workbench uses an object based approach similar to object oriented programming For detailed information on using Scripting see Using Scripting in ANSYS Workbench in the Workbench Scripting Guide Project File Management ANSYS Workbench
419. t to the EKM repository This option is available only if the local copy is newer than the repository copy You can explicitly select this option or ANSYS Workbench will remind you to send local changes to the repository when the project is about to replaced Get Changes from Repository Retrieves changes made to a project that has been previously opened from or saved to the EKM repos itory If a more recent version than your local copy exists in the repository you will be prompted and given the option to update your local copy with the version of the project in the repository You can explicitly select this option or ANSYS Workbench will prompt if you wish to get changes from the repos itory Manage Repository Project Enables access to features that monitor or change the status of a project in the repository The permissions you have for a project in a repository control which features you can access Tip To view your permissions for a project in the repository right click the project and select Display gt Permissions Register Session with Repository Allows you to register your current Workbench session with the EKM repository Once the session has been successfully registered a job is created for it in the EKM My Jobs folder From the My Jobs folder you can perform and monitor various Workbench operations remotely Check Out Undo Checkout Controls whether you have the project checked out from a version control system Add t
420. t you have sufficient licenses available for the duration of your design point study you can reserve the licenses you will need for design point updates To reserve licenses for a design point update 1 2 Set up your design point study as you normally would Right click the Parameter Set bus bar and select Properties In the Properties view select Reserved from the License Checkout drop down Click Select Licenses from the Reserved License Set drop down In the Select Licenses dialog click on each license under the Available Licenses tab that you want to reserve and click Add You can select multiple licenses at one time by holding down the CTRL key as you click each license The licenses you selected appear in the Reserved Licenses panel You can choose to filter the licenses shown by license type Solver PrepPost Geometry etc When using an ANSYS HPC Parametric Pack license with either ANSYS HPC or ANSYS HPC Pack li censes the number of licenses shown in the Concurrent Licenses column indicates the total number of HPC task available for the simultaneous design point update For example an HPC Parametric pack license used with eight HPC licenses will show 32 HPC tasks available because a single HPC Parametric Pack license enables four simultaneous design points each of which can use up to eight HPC tasks See Using HPC Parametric Pack Licenses p 116 You may be able to see what licenses were used for this study in previous u
421. ta Rename Standard actions as described in Cells in Workbench p 252 BladeGen BladeGen is a component of ANSYS BladeModeler The BladeModeler software is a specialized easy to use tool for the rapid 3 D design of rotating machinery components Incorporating extensive turboma chinery expertise into a user friendly graphical environment the software can be used to design axial mixed flow and radial blade components in applications such as pumps compressors fans blowers turbines expanders turbochargers inducers and others BladeModeler provides the essential link between blade design and advanced simulation including computational fluid dynamics and stress analyses BladeModeler contains a rich set of tools and functions for designing a turbomachinery blade from scratch using industry specific tools workflow and language that the blade designer expects With BladeGen the user can re design existing blades to achieve new design goals or create completely new blade designs from scratch When either re designing or evaluating an existing blade design BladeGen facilitates the import of blade geometry interactively or through user supplied files BladeGen allows sculpted or ruled element blades with linear or compound lean leading or trailing edges Over Under Filing can be applied and leading and trailing edge shapes are easily specified as a full ra dius an ellipse ratio or a simple cutoff BladeModeler represents a pivotal link b
422. target to see details of how the target location would be implemented for example what components would be connected after the operation is com pleted To cancel a drag and drop operation press the Esc key while holding down the mouse button Workbench Tabs and Views When working in the Workbench environment you will be dealing primarily with interface elements called tabs and views Workbench Tabs In Workbench tabs serve as workspaces that allow you to interact with different parts of your project In addition to the Project tab other tabs can be opened for other workspaces for example you can open the Parameter Set tab by double clicking on the Parameter Set bar on the Project Schematic Workspace tabs can be accessed either by double clicking the associated cell or by right clicking it and selecting Edit Each cell that does not launch an external application has a single workspace that can be opened inside Workbench In some cases it may be possible to open multiple tabs of the same type for instance if you have three Engineering Data cells in three separate systems you could have three Engineering Data tabs open at the same time Tabs in Workbench are made up of multiple views containing information relevant to portion of the analysis shown in the tab Each tab also has a context specific toolbar containing buttons for the oper ations that are available given the current state of the project You can click on tabs to m
423. ter Reading Default Enabled Applicable to RSM Yes Embed Graphics Window Default Enabled Applicable to RSM Yes Use Workbench Color Scheme Default Enabled Applicable to RSM Yes Setup Compilation Environment for UDF Default Enabled Applicable to RSM No Use Job Scheduler Default Disabled Applicable to RSM No Run Parallel Version Default The initial default execution mode Serial Parallel is based on the Run Settings The initial Number of Processes in RSM is based on the Number of Processors option in the run settings if it is gt 1 that value will be used otherwise 2 will be used If Run Parallel Version is not enabled then Serial mode is forced Applicable to RSM Yes UDF Compilation Script Path Default FLUENT_ROOT ARCH udf bat Applicable to RSM No Use Remote Linux Nodes Default Enabled Applicable to RSM No Remote Remote Polyflow Root Path Default none Applicable to RSM No Use Specified Remote Working Directory Default Enabled Applicable to RSM No Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 65 Working in ANSYS Workbench Remote Working Directory Default none Applicable to RSM No Remote Spawn Command Default RSH Applicable to RSM No Use Remote Cluster Head Node Default Enabled Applicable to RSM No Remote Host Name D
424. that completing this action will result in the deletion of the Geometry and Mesh cells and any associated data Click OK 3 After selecting the desired case file the Geometry and Mesh cells will be deleted from the system Any existing connections to the Geometry and Mesh cells will also be deleted From this point follow the procedure described in Basic Fluid Flow Analysis Starting from Geometry p 41 Creating and Linking a Second System After you have created the first system in the Project Schematic you can create additional systems A new system can be either an independent system or a connected system that has data in common with other systems Related topics Creating Independent Systems Creating Connected Systems Creating Independent Systems Independent systems are systems on the Project Schematic that are not connected to other systems via data links Multiple independent systems can be used to keep the analyses for related but separate components within the same project for example two parts of the same vehicle You may also want to create independent systems if you are analyzing the same model but using different solvers to compare the results or are using different editors on independent yet related data for example you Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 43 Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project
425. that you want to do a local geometry only update prior to submitting project updates to RSM Select Geometry to update your geometry locally before submitting project updates to RSM Component Execution Mode Specify serial or parallel solver execution mode The parallel option is available only if the selected solver supports parallel execution mode This option may not be available with all systems When performing a design point update via RSM with component update in the foreground the Parameter Set properties will override the parallel process settings in indi vidual components For details on updating design points see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM p 107 The Project Update properties specified here are shared with the Parameter Set as Design Point Update Process properties Changes to the values of these properties here will be reflected in the Parameter Set properties and vice versa Note In most cases the Update Project button or menu item updates all systems and cells in a project When a full project update is submitted to RSM as described however only those systems above the Parameter Set bar are sent to RSM for remote update If needed DesignXplorer systems can be further updated once the remote project update is completed Submitting Solutions for Local Background and Remote Solve Manager RSM Processes You can use the Solution Process properties on the Solution cell of systems in your pr
426. the Autodyn Setup cell To launch Autodyn interactively right mouse click and select Edit Model or New Model To launch Autodyn with input and reference files specified right mouse click the Setup cell and select Import Model Then select Edit Model Autodyn will launch in interactive mode and the input file s specified will be loaded ANSYS Autodyn Context Menu Options The Autodyn system contains two cells 1 Setup Setup cell context menu options include the following New Model Opens the Autodyn editor where you can set up a new 2 D or 3 D Autodyn model solve or post process results Edit Model Opens the Autodyn editor and loads in the database currently associated with system You can then further edit the model solve or postprocess results Import Model Imports an existing Autodyn database ad file into the system This action will replace any existing database associated with the system If the import detects that there are other files in the source directory for the model that is being imported the user will be presented with the option to import all the associated files Select User Executable Selects the Autodyn executable file aut odyn exe you want to associate with the system and use for subsequent preprocessing solving and postprocessing Typically this option is used to select a user customized executable Transfer New Data From Mesh Inserts a Mesh component system and generates a link between i
427. the Location column Note If you modify an External Data system s data file outside of Workbench you need to cause Workbench to re read the data file right click the Setup cell and select Re read Input Files Note that the Re read Input Files operation will cause Workbench to regard the file as having changed whether the file has changed or not and the status of the Setup cell will change appropriately You can also delete files that you have selected or multi selected by right clicking one of the files in the Outline view and then choosing Delete from the context menu To add a downstream Mechanical system either drag a valid analysis system from the Toolbox and drop it on the appropriate Setup cell of the External Data system or right click the Setup cell and choose the Transfer Data To New context menu option For additional information for using the data in a downstream Mechanical application refer to External Data Import Importing a CDB File as Input To import an Mechanical APDL generated CDB file as a source file using the External Data component select a file or files from the Location field in the Outline Once selected the Format Type property is automatically set to cdb CDB files have certain restrictions The Start Import at Line setting is disabled as the entire file is read as data Delimiter Type Delimiter Character and Format String are also disabled The data is always in the Cartesian global
428. the Mechanical application systems or the Engineering Data com ponent system to define or access material models for use in an analysis To add an Engineering Data component system to the Project Schematic drag the Engineering Data component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox Double click the Engineering Data cell or right mouse click and choose Edit from the context menu to display the Engineering Data tab where you can add or modify material data For detailed information on working with Engineering Data see Engineering Data Explicit Dynamics LS DYNA Export 1 Add anLS DYNA explicit dynamics analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Add anLS DYNA explicit dynamics analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your explicit dynamics analysis setup using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Explicit Dynamics Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on exporting to LS DYNA using an explicit dynamics analysis in the Mec
429. the Meshing application Note that if you want to generate a default mesh you could also right click on the Mesh cell and selected Update to generate the mesh in the background without launching the meshing application When this step has successfully completed the Mesh cell shows a green check mark indicating an up to date state 3 Double click on the Setup cell or right click and select Edit to load the physics pre processor If you are working a Fluid Flow Polyflow system the editor will be the Fluent application If you are working with a Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX system the editor will be CFX Pre When you have successfully defined your physics the Setup cell shows a green check mark indicating an up to date state 4 Double click on the Solution cell or right click and select Edit to open the associated Solution cell editor If you are working a Fluid Flow Polyflow system the editor will be the Fluent application If you are working with a Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX system the associated editor will be the CFX Solver Manager You can also right click and select Update to run the solution in the background When the solution is complete the Solution cell shows a green check mark indicating an up to date state 5 You can now post process the resulting solution Double click on the Results cell or right click and select Edit to open the resulting solution in ANSYS CFD Post 6 Once the process has been completed all cells in the system shoul
430. the application is integrated in the Workbench Framework ICEM CFD 14 5 in Workbench 2 0 Framework Checked out ansysimd feature aieny product ANSYS ICEM CFD from server 1055 pghlinslicense Loading project settings file ICM prj Loading geometry file ICM tin Current Coordinate system is global Loading domain ICM uns Loading family boco data from ICM fbe Current Coordinate system is global One Click Menus never The following one click menu options are available in the Toolbar when you open ICEM CFD from Workbench Save Project Saves the entire project including Workbench data Refresh Project Refreshes the upstream data in the ICEM CFD project Update Project Brings the entire ICEM CFD system up to the most current status including upstream and downstream data Start Replay Recording Begins recording the commands needed to generate a custom meshing process All of the steps in the mesh development process are recorded including blocking mesh size edge meshing boundary condition definition and final mesh generation See Replay Functionality in the ANSYS ICEM CFD User s Manual After you click the Start Replay Recording Icon the icon changes to the Stop Replay Recording icon You can click this icon to stop recording You can also click on the arrow to choose Pause Replay Recording Run Replay File Delete Replay File and Replay Control which opens the Workbench Replay Control dialog we
431. the component will use more resources At ANSYS 14 5 submitting a design point update to RSM is supported by the Solution or Analysis component update for the Mechanical APDL Mechanical Fluent CFX and Polyflow solvers These settings will override any parallel or serial settings defined at the component level When updating a component system or project the Parameter Set properties for a Design Point update are ignored The product specific settings that are overridden for a Design Point update via RSM are listed below gt For Mechanical APDL The following properties on the Mechanical APDL Analysis cell are ignored for Design Point update via RSM e Processors e Distributed e MPI Type e Machine list 108 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points gt For Fluent The following properties on the Fluent Solution cell are ignored for Design Point update via RSM e Use Job Scheduler e Run Parallel Version Visible under Parallel Run Settings when RPV True Number of Processes Use Shared Memory Machine Specification visible when USM false Machine List visible when USM false Notable exceptions in the parallel run settings group are the following properties whose effects remain enabled if set in all situations Interconnect MPI Type gt For CFX The following properties in
432. tial information 104 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points The following Show Me Animation is presented as an animated GIF in the online help If you are reading the PDF version of the help and want to see the animated GIF please access this section in the online help The interface shown may differ slightly from that in your installed product Table of Design Points PS Mesh pg P2 ds_web v Penent bA CylinderExtru i ibe catcts beech E i x mm z 4 80 80 Current A a 80 Activating and Exporting Design Points Activating Design Points ANSYS Workbench does not save the calculated data for each design point other than Current unless you export that design point Only the actual parameter values are saved Therefore when you activate a different design point you need to recalculate the results You can activate a different design point by using the Copy inputs to Current option on the design point s context menu When you activate different design points any editors that are open may close Exporting Design Points to New Projects To save all data for a design point other than Current you can export the design point as follows 1 Select the Exported check box for the desired design point in the Table of Design Points view Altern atively you can select the check box in the Exported header cell to sele
433. tial information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 99 Working with Parameters and Design Points Multiplier Value Multiplier Abbre viation d Table 3 Example Quantities and Units Dimensionality Example Units Acceleration Length Time 2 m sA 2 ft sA 2 in sA 2 um msA 2 Current A mA pA Mass Length 3 kg m 3 g cm 3 Ib ftA 3 slug inA 3 slinch in 3 Electric Charge Energy Current Time Mass LengthA2 TimeA 2 As coulomb pAs J BTU erg lbf ft slug inA2 sA 2 Force Mass Length TimeA 2 dyne N pdl Ibf slug in s Length Length 100 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Design Points Dimensionality Example Units Mass Length 1 Time 2 micron ft um yard Pa MPa N m 2 bar torr mm Hg psi psf atm dyne cm 2 Mass Length 2 Time 3 W BTU s 1 HP erg s 1 Ibf ft s 1 Temperature Temperature Design Points A design point is a set of input parameter values and corresponding output parameter values associated with an individual parameterized project definition Each design point is a single set of parameter values representing one design alternative Basically you can think of a design point as a snapshot of you
434. tion 124 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Working with ANSYS Workbench Projects Saved in an EKM Repository 4 Select Open to download the project from the repository 5 If the project is under version control check the project out when prompted Note If the project is under version control you must have the project checked out in order to send changes to the repository or modify the repository version of the project You cannot check out a project that is already checked out by another user 6 Extract the project to the specified location and open it in ANSYS Workbench Open from Default servername 123 win company com Repository x 2 a Search Repository Name Version Status B Sample Files File name EKM_Test wbpz Workbench Project Archive wbpz x Save local copy to C Wsers username Documents 7 Browse Open Cancel The Open Project from Repository dialog box contains powerful search features to assist you in finding projects anywhere in the repository To perform a basic search enter text in the quick search field The quick search will search the repository and show search results whose name description or additional metadata contains the specified text Select Search Options to perform an advanced search or to use a saved search from the EKM repository From the advanced search panel you can search on text or additional properties such a
435. tion cell makes the system a setup only system meaning the system will generate only an input file It will not solve or post results The Solution object and below are removed from the Mechanical application tree For CFX systems you will see the following Solution options in addition to the common options Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 254 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Cells in Workbench Edit Launches CFX Solver Manager Import Solution Displays the most recent CFX Solver Results files imported if any and enables you to browse for such files using the Open dialog box where you can specify the CFX Solver Results file to load When the results file is loaded the system will display only the Solution cell and the Results cell Display Monitors Opens the ANSYS CFX Solver Manager and shows the results of the previous run For Fluent systems you will see the following Solution options in addition to the common options Edit Launches ANSYS Fluent Import Final Data Allows you to select an existing Fluent data set e g solved on an external cluster into a Solution cell in a Fluent system and immediately start post processing in CFD Post without the need to run the minimum of one more solver iteration This option becomes available after importing case file into the Setup cell Results The Results cell indicates the availab
436. tively the license is retained until you either close the application or issue a PAUSE command at the Mechanical APDL command line PAUSE allows you to temporarily release the license for another application to use No other operation other than SAVE or EXIT is permitted while PAUSED When the second application has finished and releases the license issue an UNPAUSE command from the Mechanical APDL command line to resume its use of the license CFX Fluent Autodyn Polyflow These applications consume a license when launched and retain the license until they receive a request from another application to release it For example if you open CFX Pre CFX Pre will obtain and control the license It will retain the license until you close the application or until another application such as the CFX solver requests it Autodyn and Polyflow also provide a manual PAUSE feature that allows you to interrupt Autodyn or Polyflow and release the license temporarily for another application to use Separate Licenses By using the separate licenses method ANSYS Workbench requires a separate license for each application By using this method you can move freely between the many applications that you might require during an analysis in ANSYS Workbench provided that you have sufficient licenses You can leave each application running and easily move between them at any point during the analysis even if one of the applications is actively using the license
437. tment problems electronic package design nozzles engine blocks pressure vessels etc involve transient thermal analyses You will configure your transient thermal analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS or Samcef solver to compute the solution 1 Add a transient thermal analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your transient thermal analysis using the Mechanical application s tools and features See Transient Thermal Analysis in the Mechanical application help for more information on conducting a transient thermal analysis in the Mechanical application See the Thermal Analysis Guide for more information on thermal analyses using the Mechanical APDL application specifically for more information on time stepping see the discussion on general load step options Component Systems Component systems allow you to launch and use familiar standalone editors to build a project They usually do not include all components and steps necessary to achieve an analysis syste
438. to Run in Foreground For special circumstances however the update of both the Solution cell and design points via RSM can be enabled For assistance with enabling this function ality and configuring your system to support go to the Support page of the ANSYS Cus tomer Portal and submit an online support request For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Customer Portal go to http support ansys com docinfo To use the Remote Solve Manager options you must first configure RSM For tutorials featuring step by step instructions on configuring RSM go to the Downloads page of the ANSYS Customer Portal For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Customer Portal go to http support ansys com docinfo If you choose Submit to Remote Solve Manager you also have the following options which are populated from or must use the settings from your existing RSM configuration Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 52 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Using Remote Solve Manager RSM in ANSYS Workbench Properties of Schematic 45 Solution OO a E E General ET Em 3 componentip Schon td Ea Ex Em Ea Directory Name CFx 1 Initialization Option Update from current solution data if possible TA Notes Last Update Used Licenses Multi configuration Post Processor File
439. to a geometry within Workbench then use Fluent to define pertinent mathematical models e g low speed high speed laminar turbulent etc select materials define boundary conditions and specify solution controls that best represent the problem to be solved Fluent solves the mathematical equations and the results of the simulation can be displayed in Fluent or in CFD Post for further analysis e g contours vectors etc 1 Add a fluid flow analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry Altern atively you can create the geometry in DesignModeler by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing New Geometry 3 Create a mesh by right clicking on the Mesh cell and choosing Edit 4 Specify the Fluent settings by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Edit Alternatively you can import a previously saved Fluent case file by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Import FLUENT Case 5 Analyze the results of the calculations in CFD Post by right clicking on the Results cell and choosing Edit For detailed information on working with Fluent see the Fluent User s Guide as well as the other online documentation available under the Help menu within Fluent In addition please see the Fluent in Workbench User s Guide Fluid Flow Polyflow
440. tools and features See Steady State Thermal Analysis in the Mechanical application Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 147 ANSYS Workbench Systems help for more information on conducting a steady state thermal analysis in the Mechanical application See the Thermal Analysis Guide for more information on thermal analyses using the Mechanical APDL application Thermal Electric A Steady State Thermal Electric Conduction analysis allows for a simultaneous solution of thermal and electric fields This coupled field capability models joule heating for resistive materials as well as Seebeck Peltier and Thomson effects for thermoelectricity You will configure your thermal electric analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ANSYS solver to compute the solution 1 Add a thermal electric analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the template in the Toolbox 2 Load the geometry by right clicking on the Geometry cell and choosing Import Geometry 3 Setup View the geometry by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit or double clicking the Model cell Alternatively you can right click the Setup cell and select Edit This step will launch the Mechanical application 4 In the Mechanical application window complete your thermal elect
441. ts Mesh cell and the Autodyn system Setup cell This option enables the transfer of a mesh from the ANSYS Meshing system into the Autodyn system Explicit Dynamics Inserts an Explicit Dynamics analysis system and generates a link between its Setup cell and the Autodyn system Setup cell This option enables the transfer of the initial model defined in the Explicit Dynamics system or the Autodyn system The initial model includes materials mesh connections coordinate systems initial conditions loads constraints and analysis settings Update Update is used to transfer the latest upstream data from the Mesh or Explicit Dynamics system into the Autodyn system Note Any modifications made in Autodyn to a model that originated from an Explicit Dynam ics system are likely to be overwritten during the update process Items defined in the Explicit Dynamics or Mesh system represent the master version of the data Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 151 ANSYS Workbench Systems e Duplicate Properties Rename Standard actions as described in Cells in Workbench p 252 2 Analysis Analysis cell context menu items include the following Duplicate Duplicates the Autodyn system All data associated with the system including results files will be copied into a new Autodyn system e Update Clear Generated Da
442. tten On Windows the directory preference defaults to TEMP S WorkbenchJournals On Linux the directory preference defaults to the following in order 1 STEMP WorkbenchJournals 2 STMP WorkbenchJournals 3 SHOME ansys WorkbenchJournals If you record a session File gt Scripting gt Record Journal for future playback the same inform ation is written to both the location specified here and to the file specified when you begin recording Days to Keep Journal File Specify the number of days to keep journal files Defaults to 7 days When running a journal file pause after each command Specify whether there should be a pause after each command when running a journal file If this check box is selected the following option is enabled Seconds to Pause Specify the number of seconds to pause between commands Defaults to 1 second Include journal comments for newly created objects Select to specify that journal comments should be included for newly created objects For each command or transaction in the journal the journal will include a set of comments with a query providing the data reference for each object created as a result of that command or transaction If more than 10 objects of the same type are created individual queries will not be created the journal will include a statement indicating the number type and name indices of the objects created Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserv
443. tting Polyflow jobs to Remote Solve Manager see Submitting Polyflow Jobs to RSM Results Use the Results component system to launch CFD Post a flexible state of the art post processor that enables easy visualization and quantitative analysis of the results of CFD simulations Right click the Results cell and select Edit to open CFD Post From CFD Post select File gt Load Results to load a results file from the ANSYS CFX Solver ANSYS Fluent or ANSYS Polyflow For detailed information on working with ANSYS CFD Post see CFD Post in ANSYS Workbench in the CFD Post User s Guide System Coupling Use a System Coupling component system to model one and two way multiphysics couplings for your project Connect a System Coupling system to one or more analysis systems or to an External Data component to have the System Coupling system synchronize and manage the data transfer and solution Drag the System Coupling component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox Connect the System Coupling component system to the participating systems either through the Setup cell or the Solution cell Double click the Setup cell or right click and choose Edit from the context menu to display the System Coupling tab See System Coupling Workspace in the System Coupling User s Guide for further details Solution Cell Properties The Solution cell s settings are visible from the Properties view To acce
444. tween the Model cell of the Mechanical Model system and the Model cell of the FE Modeler system Likewise if FE Modeler was associated with a Release 11 0 Meshing applet a link is also established FE Modeler allows you to import a number of mesh files through the Model cell context menu Additional Aqwa Import Details A legacy Aqwa database is imported as a standalone Hydrodynamic Diffraction system If the legacy database contains multiple analyses these will be converted into multiple Hydrodynamic Diffraction systems Geometry associated with the legacy database will be associated with the Geometry cell of the Hydro dynamic Diffraction system and will be editable Additional Autodyn Import Details No links are created when Autodyn files are imported from Release 11 0 Additional CFX Import Details If CFX files are present in the wbdb project they will appear in the Files view but no system or links associated with these files are created You can choose to Import to Schematic from the Files view which will create a CFX system and import the selected file You can import CFX Solver bak files or full trn files into the Project Schematic so that you can post process results for debugging when a run fails You may find it useful to use full trn files as a backup mechanism because all timesteps are retained instead of just the most recent ones and it is easier to post process multiple timesteps Additional DesignModele
445. u In many cases it is possible to delete shared data links by right clicking on the link and selecting Delete from the context menu The data associated with the cell in the upstream system will be copied to the downstream system so the cells can be edited independently In some cases you will not be able to delete links In these cases the linked cells in the downstream system will be shown with a gray background as shown in systems C and E above Project Schematic Workflow To complete your analysis you will work downward through each cell in order In general data flows downstream from top to bottom within systems and from left to right across systems Output data from upstream component cells is provided as the input data for downstream cells Output data from certain types of cells in one system can also be transferred and or shared with cells in another system The following example shows two systems in the Project Schematic a Fluid Flow Fluent system system A and a Static Structural system system B In this example The geometry from the Geometry cell in system A becomes the input for the Mesh cell that is downstream in that system The mesh generated in the Mesh cell of the system in turn becomes input to the down stream Setup cell and so on e There is also data flow between ystem A and system B as follows They share the same geometry as indicated by the connector with the square terminator between the Ge
446. uent 23 Geometry Import 27 Graphics Interaction 16 Journals and Logs 17 Mechanical 25 Mechanical APDL 22 Meshing 26 Project Management 14 Project Reporting 18 Regional and Language options 16 Repository 20 Solution Process 19 P parameters 93 96 chaining 96 97 custom 96 derived parameters 96 expressions quantities and units 96 98 input parameters 96 output parameters 96 Parameter tab 96 viewing 248 playing a journal 70 Polyflow analysis 135 140 component system 236 postprocessing Icepak results 204 Pre Stress Modal analysis 240 preferences 13 journaling 69 license 263 Progress view 251 project archiving 71 75 259 file management 71 archiving projects 75 importing files 74 importing legacy databases 78 locking projects 76 recovering projects 75 file types 77 importing 71 74 259 importing legacy databases 78 locking projects 76 open 259 recovery 71 75 saving 259 Project Management options 14 Project Reporting options 18 project reports 86 Project Schematic 1 245 context menu options 271 Project tab 1 Project Tab 33 properties 265 266 viewing 249 Python 71 Q quick help 265 266 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 283 Index R Random Vibration analysis 135 145 240 recently used files 266 recording a journal 70 recove
447. ult Solve Process Setting In this case the default Solve Process Setting in the Mechanical application is My Computer Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 57 Working in ANSYS Workbench 10 x Project Update Project E Project Q Compact Mode Properties of Schematic A6 Solution General Component ID Solution Directory Name sy s System Information Physics Structural Ti Analysis Static Structural 8 Solver Mechanical APDL om Solution Process 10 Update Option Submit to Remote Solve Manager E Solve Process Setting My Computer Background Hi Solve Manager localhost Queue Local im Show Progress p S5how 12 Messages In Workbench the Solution Process property Update Option is set to Submit to Remote Solve Manager The Solve Process Setting selected in Workbench is My Computer Background Results Solve Initiated From Solve Process Setting Used Workbench My Computer Background Mechanical My Computer Submitting Mechanical APDL Jobs to RSM You can use RSM as a serial or parallel solution for Mechanical PDL jobs In the Solution Processes pane 1 Configure your remote solution settings via Remote Solve Manager See RSM Installation and Configur ation for more information 2 In ANSYS Workbench a Set the Update Option to Submit to Remot
448. ult Folder for Permanent Files Controls the location where a project save open will occur When you choose a different location for a project via a dialog in the user interface ANSYS Workbench remembers the folder location for subsequent operations for the rest of the session however upon starting a new session the default will be the loc ation specified here Folder For Temporary Files Controls where most temporary files are written The directory specified here holds project files that are generated before the project is saved Once a project is saved files are written to the project directory seeProject Directories p 71 for more information Startup You can specify the following startup options Load News Messages Indicates if the News messages should be loaded when ANSYS Workbench is started News messages will appear in the Messages view The default is to load messages at startup You must also specify the maximum age in days of news messages to load You can display the messages at any time by using the Show Messages button in the status bar or by choosing View gt Messages Custom RSS Feed Address Allows you to specify the URLs of feeds that are shown in addition to the default ANSYS news feed You can specify multiple URLs by separating each with a semicolon Note The Load News Messages and Custom RSS Feed Address options will be disabled if RSS feeds were disabled during the product installation Start
449. ut does not neces sarily regenerate the outputs of the cell A term meaning to click the right button on the mouse A collection of cells that together perform a dedicated task Types of systems include analysis systems component systems and custom sys tems A general term used to indicate an area of the interface where you will work on your project within the Workbench environment such as the Engineering Data or Parameters tabs A region of the ANSYS Workbench project window containing buttons for quick access to commonly used actions A region of the ANSYS Workbench interface located on the left side of the interface from which you can choose systems or other components to add to the project The Toolbox is context sensitive meaning the op tions that appear will change based on what is selected elsewhere in the interface 278 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates update An action that updates data in a particular system or cell with any new information that has been added to the project since the last update and regenerates the outputs upstream In the Project Schematic data flows from top to bottom within systems and from left to right between systems A cell is said to be upstream if it is above a cell in the same system or to the left of a cell in a separate system Upstream cells provide their o
450. ution 7 Results ogi og ogi og ag K After you click Enter either after entering a new name or accepting the default name the focus moves to the system cell requiring attention first see Understanding Cell States p 255 In the example above this cell is the Geometry cell By applying focus in this manner ANSYS Workbench draws your attention to the cell where you will most likely begin working with your system see Working through a Sys tem p 38 Renaming Systems To rename an existing system you can double click on the system name Alternatively you can right click the system header Row 1 and select Rename from the context menu The focus will move to the system name as shown below Type the new name and click Enter v A 2 Engineering Data 3 Geometry 4 Model 4 4 5 Setup 6 Solution 7 Results ogi og ogh ogi ah K A A The example below shows the system renamed to My Structural Analysis v A 2 Engineering Data 3 Geometry 4 Model 4 4 4 4 5 Setup 6 amp Solution 7 Results ogi og og ogi ag K Working through a System ANSYS Workbench provides you with a fairly straightforward workflow for creating and working through a system First you select a system from the Toolbox and add it to the Project Schematic see Adding Systems to the Project Schematic p 33 Then you work throug
451. utput data to downstream cells workflow A visual representation of the objects in your project and their relationship to each other Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 279 Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 280 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Index 1 A Add Edit Note 266 adding a system 33 135 268 analysis systems 135 246 building 38 ANSYS Customization Toolkit 21 ANSYS Workbench Configuring 9 ANSYS Workbench interface 245 tabs 245 views 245 Appearance options 15 Aqwa hydrodynamic diffraction analysis 142 hydrodynamic time response analysis 143 archiving projects 71 75 259 AUTODYN analysis 135 138 150 BladeGen analysis 152 Blow Molding Polyflow analysis 140 component system 236 building a system 33 135 C CDB files can be a master mesh in External Data systems 160 cells 245 cell states 255 common states 255 failure states 257 solution specific states 256 clear generated data 266 context menu items 252 displaying properties 266 Engineering Data 252 Geometry 252 Model Mesh 252 reset data 266 Results 252 Setup 252 Solution 252 CFX analysis 135 138 component system 152 CFX options 22 charts 49 chart properties 82 chart types 81 chart zoom pan
452. ux and experience problems at startup or with the GUI or graphics displaying correctly and you are running in accelerated graphics mode you may need to relaunch ANSYS Workbench using the oglmesa flag to activate software rendering runwb2 oglmesa If ANSYS Workbench detects that graphics problems are causing crashes it will automatically switch to software rendering ANSYS Workbench also will use software rending mode by default when running on a remote display or on a local display if the hardware does not appear to be accelerated To revert to accelerated graphics mode launch ANSYS Workbench using the oglhw flag runwb2 oglhw If you are running under Exceed3D try the following settings if you are having graphics problems Turn off the graphics hardware acceleration option in Exceed3D options If graphics acceleration is on turn on the GLX 1 3 option Any version of Exceed that does not have the GLX 1 3 option is unlikely to function correctly with graphics acceleration Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 90 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Troubleshooting Windows If you experience graphics issues on Windows systems you can find the details of your graphics card and the driver that is currently installed by running Start gt Run and typing the following into the Open field dxdiag Select the Display tab and review your graphic
453. v t y ll w a DA JL Fluid Dynamics Structural Mechanics Electromagnetics Systems and Multiphysics a Workbench User s Guide ANSYS Inc Release 15 0 Southpointe November 2013 275 Technology Drive Canonsburg PA 15317 ANSYS Inc is ansysinfo ansys com certified to ISO http www ansys com 9001 2008 T 724 746 3304 F 724 514 9494 Copyright and Trademark Information 2013 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Unauthorized use distribution or duplication is prohibited ANSYS ANSYS Workbench Ansoft AUTODYN EKM Engineering Knowledge Manager CFX FLUENT HFSS and any and all ANSYS Inc brand product service and feature names logos and slogans are registered trademarks or trademarks of ANSYS Inc or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries ICEM CFD is a trademark used by ANSYS Inc under license CFX is a trademark of Sony Corporation in Japan All other brand product service and feature names or trademarks are the property of their respective owners Disclaimer Notice THIS ANSYS SOFTWARE PRODUCT AND PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION INCLUDE TRADE SECRETS AND ARE CONFID ENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS OF ANSYS INC ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR LICENSORS The software products and documentation are furnished by ANSYS Inc its subsidiaries or affiliates under a software license agreement that contains provisions concerning non disclosure copying length and nature of use compliance with exporting
454. valuate radial blade rows pumps compressors and tur bines at the early stages of the design Drag the Vista TF component system from the Toolbox to the Project Schematic or double click the system in the Toolbox The Vista TF component system is comprised of three cells a Setup cell a Solution cell and a Results cell Double click the Setup cell to open the cell properties where you can specify the solution parameters Double click the Solution cell to generate a solution Use the Results cell to view the results For more information about Vista TF see Vista TF help Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 239 ANSYS Workbench Systems Custom Systems ANSYS Workbench allows you to add custom templates and provides pre defined custom templates such as one way FSI and thermal stress coupled analyses These pre defined templates are provided as a convenience you could also manually create any of these systems using system drag drop operations context menu operations on cells or individual cell linking You can also create your own templates and add them to easily build frequently used projects To use one of these predefined templates double click the template Drag and drop is not available as with regular templates in the Toolbox Available pre defined templates include FSI Fluid Flow ANSYS CFX gt
455. view the version information Context Menus Context menu options provide capabilities that enable you to work with your existing systems or to add to and modify projects The following types of context menus are available in Workbench Common Context Menu Options Transfer Context Menu Options Tab Context Menu Options System Header Context Menu Options Project Schematic Context Menu Options Link Context Menu Options Common Context Menu Options In addition to the menu items that are unique to each system or cell some of the options on the context sensitive menu are available with most systems and cells They include Duplicate Creates a new system that is a duplicate of the selected system All data associated with unshared cells in the system is copied to the duplicate system all data above the cell from which the duplicate operation was initiated is shared data at and below the cell from which the duplicate operation was initiated is copied See Moving Deleting and Replacing Systems p 48 for more information on duplicating systems Update Refreshes input data see Refresh below and generates required output data Any upstream cells upon which the cell is dependent will also be updated Update is not possible on a cell if another update is currently running on the cell or on any of the upstream cells In some cases the Update option may still be available while other operations are in progress such as Clear Generated Data Rese
456. visualize how closely the various input and output parameters are coupled The strength of correlation is indicated by color in the matrix Note If one of the variables to be displayed in a pie chart has no values associated with it a ring like the outer one in the image below will appear for that variable Setting Chart Properties Each chart has properties that can be set for the chart data and properties that can be set for the chart display The chart data properties should be discussed in the help for the individual applications that are displaying the chart This section will talk about the chart display properties which should be common to charts displayed by any Workbench application The various chart properties will be shown in the Properties view in the tab Note Only the properties that are applicable for the current chart type will be displayed when you edit any particular chart component an axis for example Therefore although a property may be listed in this document under Axis Properties that property might only appear for one or two chart types or the property may only appear for continuous or discrete axes Axis Properties To set axis properties right click on or outside of an axis and select Edit Properties The axis properties that are available will depend on whether the chart axis is discrete or continuous Some of the settings include Title name for that axis often defaults to variable
457. w the results then create reports using built in tools To use ANSYS CFX as a component system in ANSYS Workbench Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 152 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Component Systems 1 Add a CFX component system by dragging the system from the Component System Toolbox into the Project Schematic or by double clicking the system in the Toolbox 2 Read a mesh and specify the ANSYS CFX physics definitions in CFX Pre by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Edit Alternatively you can import a previously saved case file by right clicking on the Setup cell and choosing Import Case gt Browse 3 Right click on the Solution cell and choose Update to start the solver Alternatively right click on the Solution cell and select Edit set the solver execution controls in CFX Solver Manager and start the solver You can also import an existing CFX Solver Results file by right clicking on the Solution cell and choosing Import Solution gt Browse 4 Analyze the results of the calculations in CFD Post by right clicking on the Results cell and choosing Edit For detailed information on working with ANSYS CFX see ANSYS CFX in ANSYS Workbench in the CFX Introduction For information on submitting ANSYS CFX jobs to Remote Solve Manager see Submitting CFX Jobs to RSM Engineering Data Use the Engineering Data cell with
458. w usage times and you can submit a job to remote machines 1 Configure your remote solution settings via Remote Solve Manager See RSM Installation and Configur ation for more information 2 In ANSYS Workbench right click the Solution cell and select Properties Select the Solution Process settings that you want to use for this solution and update the project You should have at least 100 000 elements or nodes per partition to compensate for the overhead associated with the partition Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 63 Working in ANSYS Workbench An update of the Solution cell submits the job to RSM moves into Pending mode for the duration of the solution and then automatically reconnects at the end of the run Tip If you set Execution Mode to Parallel you can specify the number of processes that you want to use to create the results file You should specify a number that is less than or equal to the number of cores available on the Compute Server and you should ensure that each process contains at least 100 000 nodes or elements Note You can Interrupt or Abort an update by right clicking the Solution cell These options are available during background and RSM updates Fluent has the following limitations when used with Remote Solve Manager Only one copy of a saved project that is i
459. will Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 51 Working in ANSYS Workbench queue the solve jobs so that only one is running at a time and only one solver license will be in use at a time Note For Mechanical APDL the Download Distributed Files property is not available and will not appear in the General Property table during foreground and background updates Use application default Mechanical application only Uses the solver settings specified in the Mech anical application Submit to Remote Solve Manager allows you to run the solution in the background by submitting the solution to Remote Solve Manager RSM This option is used primarily for long running solutions that do not fit within your workstation s resources Through submission to RSM the solution can be executed on remote computing resources RSM can also submit jobs to the local machine to allow the queuing of solutions on your workstation When a solution is submitted to RSM the Solution cell enters the Pending state similar to the Run in Background option Important When design points are configured to be updated via RSM the Solution cell cannot also be updated via RSM If you have configured design points to be updated via RSM change the Solution cell update settings by setting the Update Option Solution Process property
460. will override the parallel process settings in individual components For details on updating design points see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager RSM If parallel execution is selected for CFX and Fluent once the job is submitted to RSM If the resulting Compute Server does represents the head node for a cluster i e a third party scheduler such as LSF PBS or HPC is being used the job is submitted to the scheduler and is ex ecuted in distributed parallel across the compute nodes determined by the scheduler with the specified number of processes being used If the resulting Compute Server does not represent the head node for a cluster RSM acts as the queuing system and the job is executed in shared memory parallel on the Compute Server with the specified number of cores being used Number of Processes If parallel execution mode is selected specifies the number of processes to use for the solution Must specify a number greater than or equal to 2 If a project is unsaved and any cells in your project are configured to use RSM or run in the background you must save the project or change the solution process settings of those cells to run in the foreground before you can update Note The naming scheme for jobs sent to RSM is as follows For Mechanical jobs client machine name Workbench project name design point name Model node name including cell ID Environment node name including cell ID S
461. xplicit Dynamics analysis 135 138 Explicit Dynamics analysis AUTODYN 150 Explicit Dynamics analysis LS DYNA Export 153 expressions in parameters 96 Extensions options 21 External Connection Systems 243 External Data component system 154 External Data systems CDB files as a master mesh 160 External Model component system 174 Extrusion Polyflow analysis 140 component system 236 F file management 71 74 78 project directories 71 dp0 subdirectory 72 dpall subdirectory 73 user_files subdirectory 72 File menu 259 files viewing 247 Finite Element Modeler component system 177 Fluent with TGrid meshing analysis component system 178 Fluent analysis 135 140 component system 178 Fluent options 23 Fluid Flow analysis 135 138 140 Fluid Flow analysis workflow 41 FSI analysis 240 G generating reports 18 262 geometry defining 39 Geometry component system 179 Geometry cell 252 253 Geometry Import options 27 Graphics Interaction options 16 H Harmonic Response analysis 135 141 help 87 266 Help menu 265 Hydrodynamic Diffraction analysis 135 142 Hydrodynamic Time Response analysis 135 143 l ICEM CFD component system 179 Icepak 197 context menu options 199 postprocessing results 204 properties 201 tutorial 212 imported mesh 42 importing importing legacy databases 78 importing files 71 74 importing legacy databases 259 Internal Combustion Engines 143 inte
462. y choice and don t ask this question again check box on the Check Re pository for the Project dialog the user preferences specified on the dialog are updated to this drop down Check for update of imported repository files upon opening a project Specify whether Workbench upon opening a project containing files that are saved to an EKM repos itory will check for changes to the files e Possible values are Always Ask Always Check and Never Check If you select the Save my choice and don t ask this question again check box on the Check Re pository for Imported Files dialog the user preferences specified on the dialog are updated to this drop down Send project changes to repository upon closing a project Specify whether Workbench upon closing a project that is saved to an EKM repository will send project changes to the repository e Possible values are Always Ask Always Send and Never Send If you select the Save my choice and don t ask this question again check box on the Send Project Changes to Repository dialog the user preferences specified on the dialog are updated to this drop down Extensions The Extensions options allow you to specify extension handling settings for the ANSYS Workbench Customization Toolkit ACT Specify the following extensions options Under General Options the following options are available Additional Extension Folders By default ACT searches the user s Application Data
463. ynamics 2 Geometry Z Fluid Flow Blow cle Nah amp Fluid Flow Extrus 41 Setup a Directory Name amp Fluid Flow CFX Initialization Option Fluid Flow FLUEN RO Resuks 7 Execution Control amp Fluid Flow POLYF Conflict Option a oe ae Multi configuration Post Processor File Load Options Irodynamic Di m Hydrodynamic Tin Load Option Last Results Only Linear Buckling o Solution Process Magnetostatic Update Option Run in Background Modal Modal Samcef Random Vibration Response Spectru Rigid Dynamics Shape Optimizatio x Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates 249 ANSYS Workbench Interface Reference In some cases it displays basic information about the component this information cannot be modified from the Properties view For example if you choose to view properties on a link between systems you will see a short list of uneditable connection properties including type and the from to cell identi fiers In other cases the Properties view displays detailed information some or all of which is editable For example if you choose either Edit or Properties from the Vista TF Setup cell you see a fully editable list of properties If more detailed information a specific Properties view is available view the Quick Help for the cell for which you are viewing properties Table View
464. your project you can drag a system from the Toolbox and drop it on the Project Schematic alternatively you can double click the desired system in the Toolbox Once you ve added systems to the Project Schematic you can create links between cells to transfer and or share data For information on building and linking systems see Working in the ANSYS Workbench Project Tab p 33 Icons for each cell indicate the state of that particular cell for example whether the cell needs attention is up to date and so on For more information see Understanding Cell States p 255 To display a quick help panel for the cell click the blue triangle in the lower right corner of the cell where available The quick help message that displays will explain any immediate action that needs to be taken and may include links to more detailed help Project Schematic Links Links connecting systems represent data sharing or data transfer between the systems The primary kinds of links that may be shown in the Project Schematic include Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 6 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates The Project Tab e Links indicating that data is shared between systems These links are shown with square terminators see the figure below e Links indicating data is transferred from an upstream system to a downstream system These links are shown with round term
465. zable script using additional geometry associated data and extraction of custom results You will configure your Design Assessment Analysis in the Mechanical application which uses the ap propriate solver to compute the solution Release 15 0 SAS IP Inc All rights reserved Contains proprietary and confidential information 136 of ANSYS Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliates Analysis Systems 1 Add static and or transient structural analysis templates to the Project Schematic and attach the geo metry 2 Add a Design Assessment analysis template by dragging the template from the Toolbox onto the last structural template in the Project Schematic sharing the Engineering Data Geometry and Model cells 3 The assessment type will then need to be set This can be done in two ways explained below 4 Specify the Mechanical settings by right clicking on the Model cell and choosing Edit 5 In the Mechanical application window complete your analysis using the application s tools and features 6 Start the solution by selecting Solve from the Mechanical application or Update from the Solution cell in the Project Schematic Available Assessment Types There are three supplied assessment types FATJACK BEAMST Solution Combination Only You can also choose to define your own type by creating an attribute file for use with the system Note e The default assessment type is Solution Combination Only FATJA

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