The following limitations apply to the Mechanical Embedded DesignLife UI:
Licensing behavior:
The DesignLife add-on is Ansys Mechanical Enterprise product family functionality.
The following features in the Mechanical DesignLife add-on are only available with Ansys nCode DesignLife Premium and Ansys nCode DesignLife Enterprise licenses:
Multiple loading events are available. is available.
The Materials Assignment object is available.
The Stress Gradients option under Analysis Settings can be set to .
Import and Export loading actions are available.
The Gray Iron analysis type is available.
The MultiAxial Assessment option can be set to any value.
The Elastic Plastic Correction (EPC) option can be set to any value.
Safety Factor Analysis is available.
The UI is only available on the Windows operating system.
The UI requires an Ansys nCode DesignLife license.
If you do not already have the license, contact your Ansys Sales Representative to obtain one.
TECS (Technical enhancements and customer support) is provided under the Ansys nCode DesignLife Pro license. The Ansys nCode DesignLife Premium and Ansys nCode DesignLife Enterprise licenses do not provide TECS.
More than four threads requires an Ansys nCode DesignLife Parallel Add-on license.
The Shell Seam Weld and Solid Seam Weld analysis types require an Ansys nCode DesignLife Enterprise license.
The Mechanical Embedded DesignLife system:
Should not be connected to a downstream Mechanical system. Only upstream systems are used in fatigue analysis.
Requires that all upstream systems connected to it are officially supported systems and all of them are in a solved state.
Cannot be used as a stand-alone system.
Only supports temperature-dependent S-N curves and E-N material properties for Frequency Domain analyses with Static Offset.