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How to restore the corrupted project in ANSYS Workbench?

Tagged: General, mechanical, structural-mechanics
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:34 am
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      One can recover the Mechanical/Simulation data by doing the following: In the project folder, there should be a SYS.mechdb file for each Analysis object that was on the schematic: 1. Make a copy of SYS.mechdb to another folder, 2. Rename the copy to SYS.mechdat 3. Create a new Project. 4. File > Import, change the extension filter to .MECHDAT 5. Browse to the SYS.mechdat and open.

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