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Rob
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If you can drive the CFD codes and understand how they work then Mechanical is relatively easy if you have any basic understanding of the theory. In CFD we need consider convection and diffusion as well as conduction (if it's hot) on a (generally) fixed mesh; Mechanical just has conduction on what might be a semi-automatically deforming mesh. 

As a Chemical Engineer (OK, I graduated in the mid '90s) I have little to no knowledge of the bendy stuff so whilst I can switch on the Mechanical solver and make it do simple stuff I really don't know what I'm doing: my colleagues will support that!Â