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October 24, 2017 at 10:58 pm
pgl
Ansys Employee

Welcome to ANSYS and thanks for your excellent question! 


The answer is rarely no with ANSYS simulation tools, as the products are infinitely flexible. However the challenge is understanding exactly how!


OK so philosophy aside, with ANSYS Workbench you can use Model>External Model to read an ANSYS Mechanical APDL model’s CDB file for the mesh (as generated by by the CDWRITE command).  Here's an excellent description of the process from our Channel Partner Simutech. This should help provide some guidance. Keep us posted.