Expose mechanical-based material types as parameters inside Ansys Workbench. Instead of varying independent numeric material properties, analyze the entire material type and leverage DesignXplorer-powered optimization studies to help you choose the best material for your simulation.

A powerful tool that provides an alternative to Ansys WB’s built-in compressive support boundary condition. The functionality of Ansys Classic has been transferred to the WB environment so that the user can control all compressive support parameters in a user-friendly way. This is the second version of the extension where the user can choose between two different types of contact elements. The user can choose between CONTA174 and CONTA178 and a full spectrum of advanced settings such as: Contact algorithm, Detection method, Stiffness and many others. Thanks to this extension, advanved analyses using compressive support can be performed without the need to create additional macros, directly from Ansys WB menu. This tool has two contact support definitions: based on 174 element and based on 178 element. User has to decide which option is better in his/her model. Act app has much more options then compression only support in Ansys Workbench.

Use parameters correlation results to create the DOE for a Response Surface Optimization and automatically deactivate minor parameters with the ability to reuse Design Point values

Additional Design of Experiments types: Full Factorial, LHS with Parameter Relationships (+ ability to match allowed values). Provide some useful utilities: Import Parameters and DOE, Correlation to DOE, RSO to Direct Optimization, Import Parameter Bounds, Export Parameter Bounds, Define Parameter Bounds by Percentage, Remove Failed DOE Points.

Expose a new DOE type in Ansys DesignXplorer: Full Factorial, supporting up to 10 input parameters, to generate all combinations of parameter levels

Import parameters and a solved Design of Experiments into a parameterless Workbench project for the purpose of performing a Response Surface Optimization