Learning ANSYS and Swiftcomp-ANSYS plugin

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   Kunal Samel @ 12:55 pm on 25 Aug 2017

   Good afternoon!

   I was wondering whether we can have some kind of training to get familiar with ANSYS. Currently most of us do not have access to either ANSYS or ABAQUS.

   The ABAQUS student version is restricted to 1000 nodes and the ANSYS Student version is restricted to 32000 nodes, also the swiftcomp plugin is available for ANSYS. It was told in class that the plugin should work with ANSYS student edition as well.

   Many of us have used ABAQUS before but since the swiftcomp plugin is available for ansys and because of the node limits, I feel it is necessary to get acquainted with ANSYS for the course.

   Also it seems ANSYS has a direct programming language as shown by Banghua in class.

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   Wenbin Yu @ 12:04 pm on 28 Aug 2017

   We also have ABAQUS-SwiftComp plugin available at https://cdmhub.org/resources/1134. Since it is a PhD level class, learning how to use a software should not be the main focus. In other words, students who are taking this course should be able to learn a particular software by themselves. 

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   Kunal Samel @ 6:44 pm on 28 Aug 2017

   thanks, Dr Yu! I will look into ANSYS, since it still seems to be the better option because of the node limit

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