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Workbench Geometry

Workbench Geometry

Workbench Geometry

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I am using ProEngineer Wildfire connected to ANSYS Workbench. Once imported geometry is not available when switch to Ansys classic. How can be obtained the geometry. Is it possible?

Thank you so much

RE: Workbench Geometry

>How can be obtained the geometry. Is it possible?
No. Once you switch your model from Workbench to ANSYS, you lose all of your geometry, and only the finite element information is retained. To see exactly how the information is switched, see the ANSYS command CDWRITE. To get your geometry into ANSYS either (1) obtain a Pro/E native import licence or (2) write out a static file from Pro/E (iges, step, ...) and import this into ANSYS.

Cheers,

-- drej --

RE: Workbench Geometry

Drej,

How reliable is a SAT reader for doing this? I am thinking of using a SAT reader to do the same thing for Mechanical Desktop.

Thanks,

Gurmeet

RE: Workbench Geometry

Static SAT format is arguably not the most reliable geometry. In order of priority, and based on past experience, I would use (1) PARASOLID (x_t) (2) IGES (3) SAT (ACIS) (4) STEP. Better still is to use the native part import from your CAD package.

Cheers,

-- drej --

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