Autodyn Documentation


The manuals listed below form the Ansys Autodyn product documentation set. They include descriptions of the procedures, commands, elements, and theoretical details needed to perform Explicit Dynamics analyses with Autodyn. A brief description of each manual follows.

Autodyn Release Notes
Autodyn User's Manual - Describes how to perform an analysis from the Autodyn user interface, which displays when an Autodyn component system is opened from the Workbench Project Schematic.
Autodyn Composite Modeling Guide - Describes the composite material modeling capabilities of Autodyn.
Autodyn Parallel Processing Guide - Describes the method used by Autodyn to process problems in parallel and explains how to set up and run a calculation using parallel processing.
Autodyn User's Subroutines Guide - Describes using user subroutines in Autodyn, including how to invoke the provided user subroutines, compiling and linking user subroutines, writing your own user subroutines, and Autodyn module variables.