Using Groups to Drive Changes in Ansys

SpaceClaim and Ansys have full round-trip associativity. This means that changes to the model can be sent back and forth between SpaceClaim and Ansys.

You can define groups to use as parameters and named selections. If the objects in the group are similar or related, then a property is created that can be used to change a parameter in Ansys. For example, you could create a group of all faces that have the same offset and use this group to change the offset in Ansys.

Note: Negative dimension values can invert the direction vector of SpaceClaim operations that they are associated with. This change is applied to the current and subsequent design point updates. Thus, when a Workbench input parameter is used as a driving dimension for a SpaceClaim geometry, negative dimension values may result in unexpected geometric changes.