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Working with DesignModeler

Introduction:
This tutorial is intended to demonstrate the DesignModeler modelling tools. How
to make 2d sketches, How to use the 3d modelling tools such as revolve, extrude
loft etc, How to use sketch planes. The DesignModeler comes with ANSYS. While wo
rking in industry you will be travelling here and there and one of the obstacles
you need to get around regularly every now and then is that at a certain compan
y they use CATIA as a modelling software while at another they use AUTOCAD then
at another they use SolidWorks at another they use .. etc. The DesignModeler solv
es this problem it s modelling software provided with the ANSYS package.
Why is it that we need to specify the boundary condition?
During this tutorial a simple geometry is used, the objective of that is that th
e student masters the steps to get to run a simple simulation, once that s done th
e student can model any kind of geometry he sees necessary for his studied case.
Step1: Launch ANSYS ,by going to the start-up menu and double clicking on workbe
nch file in the ANSYS 13.0 folder, Go to Analysis Systems (CFX) and double click
, then double click on Geometry.
Figure1: A
Figure3: Once it s clicked the user can see where is the plotting plane.
Step4: Looking at the window you will see the Cartesian coordinates system is sh
own on the screen with a blue arrow referring to the x axis, green arrow referri
ng to the z axis, red arrow referring to the y axis. A note to the user that 2d
sketching is conducted on the specified xy plane as long as the user specifies s
ome other plotting plane (xz plane ,yz plane)

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