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[jmcclos8]

Hi,

 

I am relatively new to Ansys, and I apologize this wasn't the most appropriate place to ask this question. I am performing a thermo-structural analysis in Ansys Mechanical. I successfully ran the heat transfer analysis and imported the results to the structural analysis. However, when I attempted to insert boundary conditions or loads no detail dialogue box appears, and I am unable to insert them in the Structural portion of the analysis. If anyone knowns how to fix this issue, any help would be much appreciated. 

[Chandra Sekaran]

Perhaps some pictures of the project page workflow and also pictures showing details dialog not showing may help.

[jmcclos8]

Hi,

Here is an Image of the workflow for the simulation. To further clarify, for example, when I click to insert a Fixed Support, nothing happens. The details dialouge box remains as shown in the screenshot and I am unable to select anything regarding the Fixed Support. 

 

[Chandra Sekaran]

So when you click on 'Fixed' like shown below nothing happens?

[jmcclos8]

Yes this is Correct

[mjmiddle]

What happens when you right click on the Analysis branch and go to the Insert menu?

There are 3 cases I can think of where you can't insert Outline objects:

1. Mechanical was opened in read-only mode or left open for a long time and lost the license. It will say read-only at the bottom of Mechanical.

2. A solution is running. You only get a couple options in a right click menu then, such as "Open Solver Files Directory."

3. Mechanical database is corrupted. You can try to recover by finding the *.mechdb files in the project. Copy outside the project and rename extension to .mechdat. Then in a new, empty workbench project, press the Import button for each mechdat.

You'll need to set the file filter to "Importable Mechanical File."