Learning Outcome & Course Requirements — Lesson 1

Parametric Variation Analysis for Ansys LS-DYNA using Ansys optiSLang Learning Outcome & Course Requirements — Lesson 1

This lesson gives a brief overview of the course, the learning outcome, and course requirements and provides a short description of the simulation model used. Users are expected to go through the following mentioned technical requirements for this course.
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Technical Requirements

LS-DYNA Distributed Memory Parallel installed
Set system or user environment variable ANSYS_SYSDIR=winx64 and restart optiSLang afterwards
For optiSLang <version> v231, v232, and v232 SP1 missing DLL for LS-EXTRACTOR: "libifcoremd.dll" and "libmmd.dll"
- either add to the system/user environment variable PATH: \optiSLang\lib ,
- or copy both DLL from this directory to <oSL_install_dir>\plugins\lsx\bin
- <oSL_install_dir> usually is:
 - either "C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\<version>"
 - or "C:\Program Files\Dynardo\ANSYS optiSLang\<version>"
CPU time per design: Approximately 6200 CPU seconds
Elapsed time per design using 4 cores: Approximately 25 minutes
Total running time for the whole study (70 designs) for serial execution: 1.5 days
Free disk space: Approximately 7.5 GB, approximately 5 GB (LSTC_D3DUMP=off)
Minimum number of licenses required: 1 x optiSLang_level2, 1 x dyna, 3 x dysmp