{"id":428762,"date":"2025-04-13T22:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansysfluent-and-solidworks-add-in-not-working\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:15:54","slug":"ansysfluent-and-solidworks-add-in-not-working","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansysfluent-and-solidworks-add-in-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys\/Fluent and Solidworks add-in not working"},"content":{"rendered":"

<div>My understanding is that there is an Add-in for Solidworks that might ease my workflow of designing in Solidworks and doing Fluent simulations. I can’t get it to work. I’m using Solidworks 2024 Pro and Ansys 2025 R1 Enterprise on Windows 11 24H2. This link<\/a> says that should be supported.<\/div><div> <\/div><div>I have modifications I make in Discovery (adding external fluid channels, adding Named Selections) and every time I modify anything in Solidworks, I have to repeat them from scratch, because I can find no way to update in place that will keep these modifications in Discovery.<\/div><div> <\/div><div>I’ve tried installing the add-in using instructions I can find online. There is conflicting info, but I think the critical steps are using “CAD Configuration Manager 2025 R1” as Administrator. Every time it opens, the SOLIDWORKS options are unchecked (but maybe this manager doesn’t keep track of state). I check it, and choose “Workbench Associative Interface”. I leave it on “All Users”. Click “Next”. Click the “Configure Selected CAD Interfaces” button. It says:<\/div><div> <\/div><div><\/code><\/div><div>Prerequisites ..... Configure Success<\/div><div>Discovery Workbench Plugin ..... Configure Success<\/div><div>SW&nbsp; Workbench PlugIn ..... Configure Success<\/div><div><\/code><\/code><\/div><div>\"\"<\/div><div>If I “Display Configuration Log”, it’s all successes, but it does say “SpaceClaimEngineeringConfiguration Not Detected”, but since 2025 R1 doesn’t seem to have SpaceClaim (at least I don’t), this doesn’t seem relevant.<\/div><div> <\/div><div>I exit the CAD Configuration program.<\/div><div> <\/div><div>Now I open Solidworks. I can either open a part or just leave all documents closed. If I look in, Tools\/Add-Ins, “Ansys 2025 R1” is on the list, unchecked. I can check it and click “OK”. Nothing happens. Ansys does not appear on the Tools menu, where I think it ought to appear. If I open Tools\/Add-Ins again… it is unchecked again. I assume it is unable to load it, but I don’t know where Solidworks might report this; there is no error given.<\/div><div>\"\"<\/div><div> <\/div><div>I have gone down some other paths. I have tried “Unconfigure Selected CAD Products” (the add-in disappears from the list in Solidworks) and readded it. I have tried “Product and CAD Configuration Manager”, chosen “Configure Products in CAD”. The internet said to configure Workbench, but I don’t see that on my list. I have tried “Other”\/”Geometry Interfaces” and both automatically and manually choosing my CAD packages. I’m not sure what it said at first, but it reported “SOLIDWORKS Geometry Interface – Associative Interface” is “detected as previously configured”.<\/div><div><div> <\/div><div>I’m out of ideas. Any help is appreciated.<\/div><div>Am I going about this all wrong, not understanding how the interaction is supposed to work?<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-428762","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-and-solidworks","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-importing-from-solidworks","topic-tag-solidworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_topic_id":["428762"],"_bbp_subscription":["540480","16547","541215"],"_bbp_author_ip":["128.62.80.188"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["429625"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["429625"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-04-22 16:19:42"],"_bbp_reply_count":["9"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_engagement":["540480","16547","541215"],"_btv_view_count":["1003"],"_bbp_topic_status":["answered"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"],"_bbp_notification_enabled":["541215"],"_bbp_status":["answered"]},"test":"jeff-bonyunutexas-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/428762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/428762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429325,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/428762\/revisions\/429325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}