What’s the difference between Mechanical APDL and Workbench Mechanical

- December 19, 2018 at 12:46 pm
  
  Rashi
  Subscriber
  
  What's the difference between Mechanical APDL and Workbench Mechanical?
  
  Is it the same? or is there any difference in terms of accuracy?
- December 19, 2018 at 12:51 pm
  
  Rohith Patchigolla
  Ansys Employee
  
  By accuracy, if you mean solver, then they are the same. Both MAPDL and WB Mechanical, use the same solver.
- December 19, 2018 at 1:19 pm
  
  Rashi
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for the reply @rgpatchi.
  
  So in that case there should be absolutely no difference if I use the same case to simulate in WB Mechanical and MAPDL?
- December 19, 2018 at 2:57 pm
  
  Rohith Patchigolla
  Ansys Employee
  
  That is correct. Perhaps you could explain further the issue you are facing, and we can help accordingly (observing some difference?)
- December 20, 2018 at 1:40 am
  
  Rashi
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you @rgpatchi. I've being using WB for a while, so I just wanted to know if there's any difference in WB and MAPDL.
  
  I read on a article which compares WB and MAPDL. It mentioned the following,
  
  "Although workbench allows us to check the quality of mesh, it ignores bad meshes to continue giving results. This results in poor quality of results. But APDL will not proceed to the results if the mesh is inappropriate. Thus APDL assures meshing quality."
  
  Is this true?