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ANSYS ICEM CFD export to ANSYS FEA

ANSYS ICEM CFD export to ANSYS FEA

ANSYS ICEM CFD export to ANSYS FEA

(OP)
I've grown fond of the meshing capabilities in ANSYS ICEM (workbench GUI), but I would like to transfer the mesh to ANSYS simulator or ANSYS Classis/traditional for structural FEA.

For a 2D/Shell test model I've tried creating an output batch file for ANSYS, but I cannot seem to open it in ANSYS Simulator (the workbench GUI) and in ANSYS classic I am getting errors pertaining to the batch file's definition of real constants.

Is there a better way of porting from ICEM to Simulator/Classic?  Alternative, can I do most of my structural FEA in ICEM?

Tx.

RE: ANSYS ICEM CFD export to ANSYS FEA

(OP)
Since it doesn't look like too many people use ANSYS ICEM CFD for meshing, let me explain my *temporary* solution:

Export the mesh to ANSYS as a .ini file w/material properties set

However, this sometimes causes files that hang on import through ANSYS classic, especially with SHELL elements.  I have yet to discover the reason, but for now I am sticking to importing volumes (=large files and too many elements).  This seems to be working for now.

RE: ANSYS ICEM CFD export to ANSYS FEA

Hi

When you want to export your mesh from ICEM to Ansys you can do this in three ways. First export the mesh in ICEM to Ansys, only element and nodes are exported. Second go to FE-modeler and generate a initial geometry from the mesh. If this works you can go directly to ANSYS Workbench, were mesh and geometry are transferred. Third go to FE-modeler and pick ANSYS as target and generate a input file for ANSYS

Regards

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