Quick Introduction to Ansys Discovery GUI

Quick Introduction to ANSYS Discovery GUI Hello, welcome to a new video from OZE Engineering. My name is Ahmed Al-Ghandour.

I'm an application engineer and today I will give you a quick introduction to ANSYS Discovery 2020 R2. 5. When you start Discovery, this will be the welcome screen that you will find. I highly recommend that you go over it.

You will see here some tips that will give you a jump start to understand what is new and what exists in Discovery. It will explain to you what is new and what is not. It will show you that there are three modes: Model, Explore, and Refine, which used to be called Analyze in previous versions.

It will give you a quick demo to the interface. It will also introduce you to the UI component, user interface component. As well as the navigation tool using the mouse. How to do selection. And also how to use the different tools.

We will introduce you to the help, which is a very good interactive help that you can use at any time. I will show you in a few minutes.

Also, if this is your first time, I recommend that you use the Start Interactive tool because it will give you on-screen help and on-screen guidance to make it easier for you to understand the different tools and where to find what you need and how to use it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the chat. If you want to use the software, now you can start by using Open Home Page. Now when you start, you have these options. You can start a new analysis. Or you can use previously opened files.

Or you can use one of the already existing examples that are built in. Or you can open any model you have. Discovery Live also supports many CAD tools. You can see here AutoCAD, CATIA, Inventor, E-CAD, Creo, SolidWorks, Stepfile, etc. Okay. So you can use any of these.

So let me start with this example, for example, just to show you or maybe this one here because it has more features. Just to show you. Double click. And here we go. So it's loading now. You will notice that what you see here, it's called Explore.

Explore is by default Discovery or the Discovery Life. In Discovery, there are three modes. Number one is Model. Once you click on Model, you will see that these tools here, which are called Simulation, are grayed out. And everything else here is working. And these are the CAD tools.

If you are familiar with Space Claims, these are exactly the same. You can use it to create a new CAD or you can edit or repair a CAD that you already have. So Model is basically for CAD manipulation or creation. Now, if you go to Explore in the bottom here. Now we are inside Discovery.

So once we are inside Discovery, you will find that there is a tree here. This is a CAD. If we expand this. This is a CAD. This is a different component. And then the physics that you are using. And then Material. And then some information about your model. If you have gravity included or excluded.

And then some connection boundary conditions and loading. If you notice here, this sample here represents a structure. So that means this example here is a structure. I'm going to talk about this. And then I'm going to show you some pictures in detail later on. What we see here is called the Hollow.

And the Hollows. If you click on the Hollow, it will give you a quick tool to reach whatever you need. So right now, I'm inside the Physics. It can show you how to decide which physics you want to do and what boundary condition you can use.

This is for a structure, fluid, thermal, topology optimization, selection of material and monitors. This one here. It will take you to CAD modification. You can see the Pool. You can see here the Combine and other tools that we usually use in CAD.

And here are different selection tools if you want to do any selection. On the left here, this is also for geometry manipulation. You can see you can change the model to wireframe if you want or shaded. This takes you to the Home View. Let me.

This will take you to the Home View or you can set a new home if you want. This will give you the different views. If you're going to if you want to have side view, top view, etc. You can also select the face. Let's say I want to make this face and I then can go here and look. Plain view.

Then it will be having like this view will be my front view. Here we can use color. By material or color by geometry. Okay. In this case, everything here is one same material. So if I click color by material, all have the same color. Color by geometry. You can see they are different now.

And then last one is for transparency. This component here on the bottom right. This is for visualization of results. So this is for solve. And then you can have different visualization for result that we're going to speak about it later when you talk about the next part.

So this is for visualization of results. This component is for showing monitor. We can see as we are doing in this analysis, a structural analysis. We can look at maximum von Mises stress. Maximum displacement or factor of safety. If you click at anyone. We'll give you this window.

And once you solve it, we'll start monitoring you. The result. So what we look here, we can see here, this is the main face. So this is the main face. And this is the main one. So this is the main face. So this is the main face. And this is the main face. So this is the main face.

And this is the main face. And this is the main face. And this is the main face. And this is the main face. And this is the main face. And this is the main face. And this is the main face. Let me start a new one. Without an example. Okay. Let me import any cat. Open.

So again, I'm going to import a new cat. Just to start. If I'm starting a new analysis and you will see. Now you see here. There is no information. There is no physics selected yet. Available now is just the default material which is structure steel.

Now it's up to you to select Internal Flow or External Flow if you want to solve CV analysis, Structural Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Model Analysis. You can also combine and have like Thermal Stress or Fluid with Temperature included. Here is the Material. There is a big list of material included.

And if you have Granta, you will have even more and more material available. If I click on anyone, like here we have Structural Steel, we can click on Information.

It will us it will tell us the information that is used for and you can define your own material if you are interested in different material. Now this is for Explore. Now if you go to Refine, Refine is basically using an Ansys Platform Solver.

So if I'm in Explorer, we solve based on GPU to have an instantaneous solution. So for example, let me give you a very quick example here. If you look at Explore, I'm going to let me suppress everything else, okay, so just to have a quick solution.

I'm going to hide everything else and just work in one model, okay. So now if I'm if I'm going to solve Structure, I can select from here or I can come from the Hollow and select. So let me select this face here, add Fix Support, which should appear on the left.

You can see a Fixed Support appeared here. And you see immediately there is a new symbol here for Structural Analysis and also there is a message. This message is the hacking language of a Structural Analysis.

We are going to Conquer Structural Analysis to study the fascinating aspects of studying structures. Let me select from here. So let me select this face here and Fix Support, which should appear on the left. You can see Fix Support appeared here.

And you see immediately there is a new simple here for Structural Analysis and also there is a message. This and here is the switching of the other whatever Structural Analysis cmdnc vulnerabilities lines and blocks in this message, telling me you need to add a load force or moment.

That means I cannot complete my solution, which is this. So let's say I'm going to add, for example, on this face here, a pressure of let's say 100. And by the way, you can select the units from here or you can type the unit as well, okay. So now you can see the pressure is added.

And if you highlight on anything, it will show you where is it. So if I highlight on Pressure, you can see it's highlighted in the middle. If I highlight on Boundary Condition, Picks Support, we see it's highlighted, etc.

So now if I solve, you can see it's solving on the GPU, that means it will solve very very fast, okay. So you can see here, I have the Factor of Safety, the Maximum Displacement, and von Mises Stress. These are my monitors.

Now if I go to Refine, I can now solve on one of the Ansys Solvers, either Mechanical APDL for Structural Analysis or Fluent for CFD. Also, I have more control for local mesh if I want or global mesh or even more boundary condition that I didn't have before. We will talk about this more in detail.

So I just wanted to give you a quick introduction on the interface, a very important tool is what's called F1 Help. If I click on F1, you will see now there is a help that will appear and it will tell me what are the what are the symbols or the icons on the screen.

So if I move with the mouse on anything, it will give me more information about it. Now if I hit Escape, let's select, let's do something else, let's go back to Explore. Right, and then let's uh, hit F1 again. See if I go here and tell me what are these parts.

So using this interactive help is a very very strong tool that you should use all the time and keep in mind until you get familiar with the new ones. As a quick introduction, the interface is very simple and it's very easy to use. So we have a Multi-Physics here. We can use separate or coupled.

We have Model for the CAD, Explore for the instantaneous solve based on the GPU, and we have Refine, which is solved based on the CPU and the strong solver of Ansys, which is Mechanical APDL for Structure or Fluent for CFD. I hope the video was useful for you. Please watch the next videos.

We will have more detailed uh in the next videos. So thank you for watching and we will see you in the next video. Bye-bye. Explanation of some other type of analysis we can use and more tips on how to use the software. Thank you.