Ansys Workbench is a CAD-neutral environment that supports bidirectional, direct, and associative interfaces with CAD systems. You can manipulate existing native CAD geometry directly without translation to intermediate geometry formats. Via plug-ins, the associative interface allows you to make parametric changes from either a CAD system or from within Ansys Workbench.

See the Workbench User Guide for complete information about the Ansys Workbench interface.

With the understanding that all engineering simulation is based on geometry to represent the design, see the CAD Integration section of the Ansys Workbench help.

The DesignModeler application section of the Ansys Workbench help provides descriptions of the application’s features. Outlined here are topics to aid your ease of use of the application.