UofAANSYSTutorial

ANSYS
UTILITIES

BASIC
TUTORIALS

INTERMEDIATE

TUTORIALS

ADVANCED
TUTORIALS

POSTPROC.
TUTORIALS

COMMAND
LINEFILES

ANSYS5.7.1

PRINTABLE
VERSION

ANSYS7.0Environment

Introduction
StartingupANSYS

ANSYSEnvironment
ANSYSInterface

TheANSYSEnvironmentforANSYS7.0contains2windows:theMainWindowandanOutputWindow.Notethat
thisissomewhatdifferentfromthepreviousversionofANSYSwhichmadeuseof6differentwindows.
1.MainWindow

ConvergenceTesting
Saving/RestoringJobs
ANSYSFiles
PrintingResults
WorkingwithPro/E

Index

Contributions
Comments
MecE563
MechanicalEngineering
UniversityofAlberta

ANSYSInc.

Copyright2001
UniversityofAlberta

WithintheMainWindoware5divisions:
a.UtilityMenu
TheUtilityMenucontainsfunctionsthatareavailablethroughouttheANSYSsession,suchasfile
controls,selections,graphiccontrolsandparameters.
b.InputLindow
TheInputLineshowsprogrampromptmessagesandallowsyoutotypeincommandsdirectly.
c.Toolbar
TheToolbarcontainspushbuttonsthatexecutecommonlyusedANSYScommands.Morepushbuttons
canbeaddedifdesired.
d.MainMenu
TheMainMenucontainstheprimaryANSYSfunctions,organizedbypreprocessor,solution,general
postprocessor,designoptimizer.Itisfromthismenuthatthevastmajorityofmodellingcommandsare
issued.ThisiswhereyouwillnotethegreatestchangebetweenpreviousversionsofANSYSandversion
7.0.However,whiletheversionsappeardifferent,themenustructurehasnotchanged.
e.GraphicsWindow
TheGraphicWindowiswheregraphicsareshownandgraphicalpickingcanbemade.Itisherewhere
youwillgraphicallyviewthemodelinitsvariousstagesofconstructionandtheensuingresultsfromthe
analysis.
2.OutputWindow

TheOutputWindowshowstextoutputfromtheprogram,suchaslistingofdataetc.Itisusuallypositioned
behindthemainwindowandcandeputtothefrontifnecessary.