B. ANSYS Workbench Overview
What is ANSYS Workbench?
-ANSYS Workbench provides powerful methods for interacting with the ANSYS family of solvers. This environment provides a unique integration with CAD systems, and your design process.
ANSYS Workbench is comprised of various applications (some examples):
-Mechanical for performing structural and thermal analyses using the ANSYS solver
-Explicit Dynamics for performing non-linear dynamic analyses using the AUTODYN solver.
-Geometry (DesignModeler) for creating and modifying CAD geometry to prepare the solid model for use in Mechanical.
-Meshing for generating Structural and CFD meshes
-Advanced Meshing for generating Structural and CFD meshes using ICEM CFD
-Design Exploration for optimization
-Finite Element Modeler (FE Modeler) for translating a NASTRAN and ABAQUS mesh for use in ANSYS
-AUTODYN for explicit dynamics simulations featuring modeling of nonlinear dynamics
ANSYS Workbench Overview
The Workbench environment supports two types of applications:
-Native applications (workspaces): Current native applications are Project Schematic, Engineering Data and Design Exploration.
Native applications are launched and run entirely in the Workbench window.
-Data Integrated Applications: current applications include Mechanical, Explicit Dynamics (Mechanical), Fluent, CFX, AUTODYN and others.
Starting Workbench
There are two methods of launching Workbench:
-From the Windows start menu:
-From the CAD system
The Workbench Environment
For most situations the Workbench GUI is divided into 2 primary sections (there are other optional sections we’ll see in a moment):
The Toolbox
The toolbox contains 4 subgroups:
-Analysis systems: predefined templates that can be placed in the schematic.
-Component systems: various applications that can be accessed to build, or expand, analysis systems.
-Custom Systems: predefined analysis systems for coupled applications (FSI, thermal-stress, etc.). -Users can also create their own predefined systems.
-Design Exploration: Parametric management and optimization tools.
-The systems and components displayed in the toolbox will depend on the installed products.
-Using the check boxes in the “View All / Customize” window, the items displayed in the toolbox can be toggled on or off.
-The toolbox customization window is normally left closed when not in use.
The Project Schematic
-The Workbench project schematic is a graphical representation of the workflow defining a system or group of systems.
-The workflow in the project schematic is always left to right.
-There are currently several applications which are native to Workbench, meaning they run entirely in the Workbench window:
.Project Schematic, Engineering Data and Design Exploration
-Non-native applications (called data-integrated) run in their own window:
.DesignModeler, Mechanical (formerly Simulation), Mechanical APDL (formerly ANSYS), ANSYS AUTODYN, ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS CFX, Etc . . .
-Blocks of cells can be deleted by RMB menu selection.
-In this example an Explicit Dynamics analysis type is selected for the project schematic.
-From the toolbox the selection can be dragged and dropped onto the schematic or simply double clicked.
-By dropping applications and/or analyses into various locations in the schematic, an overall analysis project is defined.
-“Connectors” indicate the level of collaboration between systems.
-In the example below a structural system is dragged and dropped onto a thermal system at the Model cell (A4).
-Before completing the operation notice there are a number of optional “drop” locations that will provide various types of linkage between systems (continued next page).
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-By completing the operation from the previous page, notice the linkage here is only at the Model level and above.
-In this case there would be no thermal/structural coupling.
-Notice each system block is given an alphabetic designation (A, B, C, etc)
By dropping the structural system at the “Solution” level we obtain a structural system that is coupled to the thermal solution.
-A schematic can also be constructed by RMB and choosing to “Transfer Data To New” or “Transfer Data From New”.
-In using the RMB transfer feature all transfer possibilities (upstream and downstream) are displayed.
-These selections will vary depending on which cell in a particular system you highlight.
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