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Tools for ANSY FEM Creation

Tools for ANSY FEM Creation

Tools for ANSY FEM Creation

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Most of the analysis I do currently is in NASTRAN. I am very familiar with that code's paradigms and associated tools for model creation, but recently have started getting work that requires ANSYS. I have become a little spoiled, for lack of a better word, by tools like HyperMesh and FEMAP which gives you unprecedented control when meshing complex geometries, setting up model connections, and just organizing your model in general. Both these software packages can also be used for exporting ANSYS models, but not very reliably and I always end up having to manually edit the decks by hand.

I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with similar tools that are designed for (or at least play well with) ANSYS? I am not a huge fan of using Workbench or the standard ADPL interface because they are very automated and rely heavily on the geometry being perfect. Since many times I am using models that were given to me from an outside source this usually is not the case. I recently came across ANSYS ICEM CFD, which from my initial research sounds like it might be more in line with what I am looking for; If anyone has experience with that I would also like to hear it.

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