Welcome to the Mechanical Application tutorials. These tutorials provide an introduction to the extensive capabilities of the Mechanical family of products. Each tutorial is a complete step-by-step analysis procedure. You can choose from several analysis disciplines. The tutorials are designed to be run interactively and enable you to get better acquainted with the application interface and its features, options, and settings. If you are more interested in comparing simulation results to closed-form solutions, see the Mechanical Application section of the Ansys Workbench Verification Manual.
The amount of time it takes you to perform a tutorial depends on the computer system and the number of cores you use, the amount of network traffic, the working pace that is comfortable for you, and so on. Generally, most of these tutorials take between 30 and 90 minutes of interactive time, including solution time, with solution times usually being a few minutes or less.
Each tutorial includes a specification table with the following items:
- Analysis Type
Any of the dozens of analysis types offered in Mechanical, such as static, modal, harmonic, transient, rigid dynamics, cyclic symmetry, fatigue, and so on.
- Features Demonstrated
Lists the noteworthy Mechanical features demonstrated in the tutorial.
- Licenses Required
Indicates which Mechanical licenses are required to run the tutorial. Licenses are determined by the discipline and complexity of the problem. Licenses are listed with a / indicating "or."
For example, a tutorial with the following in the Licenses Required entry: Ansys Mechanical Pro/Premium/Enterprise/Enterprise PrepPost indicates that Ansys Mechanical Pro or above can be used to solve the tutorial.
As another example, a tutorial with the following: Ansys Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost and Ansys nCode Enterprise indicates two license types are required, one for Mechanical and one for nCode. In this case, Ansys Mechanical Pro, Premium, and Enterprise, by their absence from the entry, are not sufficient. Similarly, Ansys nCode Premium, by its absence, is not sufficient.
- Help Resources
Links to information in the Ansys help system that is relevant to the overall topics covered in the tutorial.
- Tutorial Files
Links to download any files required for the tutorial. Files are in .zip format.
Note: Be sure that you are using the version of the on-line Help that corresponds to your version of the software. Otherwise, you could experience discrepancies.