Starting up ANSYS

UofA ANSYS Tutorial

ANSYS UTILITIES

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INTERMEDIATE TUTORIALS

ADVANCED TUTORIALS

POSTPROC. TUTORIALS

COMMAND LINE FILES

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Introduction

Starting up ANSYS

ANSYS Environment

ANSYS Interface

Convergence Testing

Saving/Restoring Jobs

ANSYS Files

Printing Results

Working with Pro/E

Index

Contributions

Comments

MecE 563

Mechanical Engineering

University of Alberta

ANSYS Inc.

Starting up ANSYS

Starting up ANSYS

Large File Sizes

ANSYS can create rather large files when running and saving; be sure that your local drive has space for it.

Getting the Program Started

In the Mec E 3-3 lab, there are two ways that you can start up ANSYS:

1. Windows NT application 2. Unix X-Windows application

Windows NT Start Up

Starting up ANSYS in Windows NT is simple:

● Start Menu ● Programs ● ANSYS 5.7 ● Run Interactive Now

Unix X-Windows Start Up

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Starting the Unix version of ANSYS involves a few more steps:

● in the task bar at the bottom of the screen, you should see something labeled X-Win32. If you don't see this minimized program, you can may want to reboot the computer, as it automatically starts this application when booting.

● right click on this menu and selection Sessions and then select Mece. ● you will now be prompted to login to GPU... do this. ● once the Xwindows emulator has started, you will see an icon at the bottom of the screen that looks like a

paper and pencil; don't select this icon, but rather, click on the up arrow above it and select Terminal ● a terminal command window will now start up ● in that window, type xansys57 ● at the UNIX prompt and a small launcher menu will appear.

● select the Run Interactive Now menu item.

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