This brief summarizes the mission, capabilities, and value provided by Epsilon FEA.
Epsilon FEA of Minneapolis, Minnesota hosts the Twin Cities ANSYS User Meetings. These independent user meetings include a technical presentation on new or lesser-known features in the ANSYS toolset in an informal setting.
View past and upcoming meeting presentation materials
Get on the mailing list to receive announcements of upcoming meetings.
Created while at PADT, inc. this quick reference to *GET and many other oft-used APDL commands is invaluable to those writing scripts and macros in ANSYS. Download it from the PADT Website.
Tutorials can be found all over the web with some minimal googling. Consider asking the xansys forum for particular recommendations. University of Alberta has been the most well-known contributor for a decade and you could always start there.
The large collection of undocumented commands is best detailed here from the former ansys.net website. Anyone who uses APDL might stumble into the need for one of these commands and thereby save a lot of legwork.
Customize your ANSYS tools using ACT, the customization tools that leverages APDL, API’s, Jscript, Python, XML to build extensions for use in your organization. We can help automate tasks, integrate legacy APDL, encode standard procedures, and more.
For an example implementation see our presentation from the 2013 Minneapolis ANSYS Conference. Weld Evaluation per AISC methods were automated using the ACT toolset in the Workbench environment.
This forum is by far the largest on the internet and should be joined by anyone who even occasionally uses ANSYS. In most cases the several thousand users world-wide can quickly answer any question an analyst might have — the trick is in properly asking the question. Read and follow the netiquette when you sign up; unlike most internet forums, non-adherence to details like including your company name aren’t tolerated and actually typically draw ridicule and potential banishment. Plus some folks get crabby at questions that are easily found in the manual, or are way too under-specific. Worst is the two line request of “somebody solve my model for me” without a specific question. If you can endure the sensitivities, it is valuable access into the resources of over a combined 100,000 years of ANSYS experience.
Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies is an ANSYS reseller in the Southwest United States, and has a plethora of supporting documents, scripts, software, seminars, training classes, etc. and should be on any analysts bookmark list. In addition the site houses The Focus, an online publication with timely and in-depth technical articles spanning topics across the spectrum for users of ANSYS software (it’s humorous, too).
And don’t forget the final resource back at the mothership, ANSYS Inc.