CAESES ANSYS ACT App: Update Available

We have updated the CAESES ACT app, to more easily and robust inte­grate CAESES into the ANSYS Work­bench. The fol­low­ing issues are fixed now:

Unit Con­ver­sion

Pre­vi­ously, in Space­Claim the unit was con­verted to the one in the CAESES fsc-file. However, it was first con­vert­ing the lengths to mm and then to the desired unit, which was creating unde­sired scaling.

Reload Loop

When the ACT App was reloaded, it was creating a loop where all the process of updating the geometry within ANSYS geometry were repeated several times. This was creating a problem espe­cially for Tur­bo­Grid ACT, where the geometry creation and meshing might take long times.

Single App 

Instead of having dif­fer­ent ACT apps for general CAESES models and Tur­bo­Grid-related models, both apps are now combined in a single .wbex file.

More Infor­ma­tion and Free Download

By using the CAESES ACT app, the geometry gen­er­a­tion process is fully auto­mated within the Work­bench user inter­face. ANSYS users can stay in the Work­bench envi­ron­ment to conduct design explo­rations and shape opti­miza­tion with CAESES. The para­me­ter set of the CAESES geometry models is auto­mat­i­cally handed over to ANSYS, so that e.g. OptiS­Lang can vary and optimize the geometry. More infor­ma­tion about the CAESES ACT app can be found in the article ​“Shape Opti­miza­tion in ANSYS with CAESES”. 

The updated ACT app can be down­loaded in the ANSYS Store: