The latest version of ANSYS was recently released. As with any new release, this version comes with a broad range of feature updates. In this article we will highlight a few of these changes.
Where to find a list of all the changes?
ANSYS does a good job of documenting feature updates and making them easily accessible to the users. In addition to the standard release notes, users can access the list of changes along with their descriptions from within workbench.
You can get to the list of changes from the worksheet under the Mechanical project menu:
The following list appears. You can click on any of the changes and read more detail on it.
If you cannot find this, then you may have the worksheet toggled off. You can turn it back on from under the manage tab as shown below:
1. Title Bar and Taskbar Display
You can now change the window title for the projects.
This is especially useful if you are working on multiple projects at the same time. Here is an example of two Mechanical projects manually titled Test_Fixture and Elastic_Plastic_Model. If you hover over the Mechanical tab in the task bar, the two windows will show up with their names as shown below:
2. Mesh Troubleshooting
The following has been taken straight from ANSYS documentation:
“The Named Selection Worksheet now contains a Diagnostics option.
This feature creates a Named Selection for the selected geometric or mesh entity to detect where:
- Defeaturing has occurred.
- Mesh bodies having intersecting mesh elements.
- Bodies overlap (interference).
- Mesh has free mesh edges (unmeshed faces).
- Sharp angles occur due to surface tangency (that may need geometry repair).”
As one can imagine, this feature could prove very useful for identifying areas with problematic geometry and mesh elements.
3. Rigid Transformations
When importing data from an External Data system, one can now perform rigid transformations from within Mechanical. This is useful when the imported data set does not coincide with the geometry (the imported nodes do not line up with the nodes of the geometry).
