DesignSpark Mechanical Online Help

Your design is ready to send to ANSYS for analysis. It should look like this:

There are some limitations on sending spot welds to ANSYS Workbench:

• Only points with mates can be used for simulation.
• You may place weld points between multi-body parts if the two bodies belong to different parts. Spot welds defined between bodies in the same part are not transferred to simulation.
• You can approximate seam welds by placing weld points on the guiding edge with an offset of zero, if no mating face is found on either side of the base face.

Start ANSYS Workbench and send your design

1. Click ANSYS Workbench on the ANSYS tab.

   ANSYS should open and your design should be loaded.

2. Expand the structure tree in ANSYS and you will see the spot welds under the Connections node, like this:

    

   

    

3. Go back to DS Mechanical and change one of the spot weld joints.

4. In ANSYS Workbench, right-click the Geometry node and select

   Your design should now be up-to-date in DS Mechanical and ANSYS.