Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

--
Ed Huntress

Ed - I've no info for you regarding the ansys fea, but if you
do install it, I'd certainly like to hear how you liked it.

Hul


Ed Huntress wrote:
Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

--
Ed Huntress

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:51:14 +0000 (UTC), Hul Tytus
wrote:

Ed - I've no info for you regarding the ansys fea, but if you
do install it, I'd certainly like to hear how you liked it.

Hul


Ed Huntress wrote:
Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

--
Ed Huntress

OK, Phil. I'll give a report. If you check out their website, you'll
see there are three student versions. I'll start with the newest and
simplest one, "Discovery Live Student." It includes their new 3D CAD
component.

https://www.ansys.com/academic/free-student-products

--
Ed Huntress

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:20:42 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

No, but if you need to know something about NASTRAN..

--sp

On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 15:50:11 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:20:42 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

No, but if you need to know something about NASTRAN..

--sp

I'll keep it in mind. I did have some time to get started and I
learned some things that WON'T work. I'll give a report soon.

--
Ed Huntress

I started with (and only have)
LisaFEA
https://www.lisafea.com

The reason is that the tutorials looked right, they did make sense,
and with no tutor and no-one to show me anything, I was able to depart
upwards-and-onwards from the tutorials and start modelling things from
my experience. Becoming ever more complex as I got the hang of it.

It enables me to model steel structurals. What it indicates aligns
with cases I know about "in real life", and sometimes it shows things
where I realise "That's why you see {such-and-such-thing-happen} in
real life!" - you've seen something and pondered, and the FEA shows
why it happens.

(eg - ripples at the edges of a beam web when a vertical column
intersects it with nothing underneath to steady it).

I suspect the big-name FEA's do more more things.
I think Lisa-FEA is linear-elastic only, re. structural modelling.

So I am otherwise neutral in commenting...

Rich Smith

On Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 8:20:53 AM UTC-8, Ed Huntress wrote:
Does anyone here use the (free) ANSYS Acadmeic/Student edition? I
down'oaded the sucker (almost 4GB) but I haven't installed it yet.

It's an industry standard for FEA, but I'm wary of installing that
monster if it's difficult or crippled.

--
Ed Huntress

After 30 some years I broke down and took a NASTAN/PATRAN class the company gives off hours. I just finished modeling a Al channel.

If you do big complex structures where one builds up plates and beams NASTRAN is a contender. Modeling small parts with a ton of contacts I would look elsewhere.

Dan