SpaceClaim Online Help

Updating data with ANSYS 16

SpaceClaim is a recognized geometry editor in ANSYS 16.0.

The SpaceClaim title bar now shows the system ID for the Workbench project and the system name as a prefix, as in: A:Geometry - <remainder of title>. DocumentA model file (.scdoc) that may contain any combination of design versions, associated drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides. tabs for the corresponding geometry cells display a yellow ANSYS icon and the unique system name from ANSYS to make them easy to find.

When you transfer geometry to ANSYS, only surface bodies are stitched. Other bodies are fused, and a warning is issued if shared topology fails.

When a Beam with SectionDesign mode in which you edit solids by working with their edges and vertices in cross-section. View is cut away to show interior detail. Anchor type set to Location is transferred to Workbench, its Location becomes a Workbench OffsetDistance an edge, segment, or curve is moved or copied. of type, User Defined. The X and Y offset components will, in general, change to preserve the Beam cross-section position relative to the Beam line. This coordinate transformation is necessary to account for differences between SpaceClaim and Workbench reference frames.

To edit SpaceClaim data from ANSYS

• To work with an existing design, click Import Geometry in ANSYS and choose an existing SCDOC fileFile format for SpaceClaim files (.scdoc). Files comply with the Microsoft Open Packaging Convention, which is also used by Microsoft Office 2007. These files are actually zip archives with a special structure, the contents of which are primarily XML data., then use Edit Geometry in SpaceClaim  to launch SpaceClaim with that document loaded.

• To start a new design, click New SpaceClaim Geometry in ANSYS to launch SpaceClaim with an empty design.

• To edit a design that is used in a simulation, open the Workbench project and click Edit Geometry in SpaceClaim.

• Click Reset in the geometry cell to disconnect the cell and clear its contents.

To initiate changes from SpaceClaim

• Click the File menu and select Save Project to save the Workbench project.

  This is the same as clicking Save in Workbench. The entire project schematic is saved, including any geometry cells, and design.wbpj and design_files folder are created, where design is the name of your design. The .scdoc file for each geometry cell is saved in this folder.