Top 10 Reasons to Use Workbench

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[FROM : http://www.padtinc.com]

10: Shorter and Shallower Learning Curve
      People just seem to learn Workbench faster and are more productive sooner. This is especially true for younger engineers who are new to FE analysis and have a strong background with modern parametric CAD packages such as SolidWorks or Solid Edge.

9: Significant Say in Growth
     Workbench is developing and growing every day. For many in the user community, this is the first time that they can participate in guiding the development of a code that, in our opinion, will soon dominate the CAE market. This is everyone’s opportunity to speak up and make an impact.

8: Automatic Report Creation
      The process of creating reports for an analysis can sometimes take longer than the analysis. On occaision, schedules are so tight that no report is created at all, or only the results are captured. Both of these issues are addressed with the powerful automatic report generation feature in WB. Using this tool, companies can set up standardized reports, force the capture and retention of key pieces of information, and drastically reduce the amount of time required to make a report.

7: Built-in Process Standardization
      When you start up WB, you may have noticed some stuff over on the right side of the screen. This is where wizards live. The product ships with some basic step-by-step guides. Many users see these as tools for helping low-end users do analysis, which they are in fact good for. But you can also create your own very sophisticated wizards that can lock down standard processes and ensure that key steps are carried out.

6: New Stuff is Going into WB
      The cold, hard  reality is that many of the new pre- and post-processing features that ANSYS, Inc. is creating to meet user requests are going into WB.   

• Virtual topology
• Advanced solid modeling
• “Engineering” loads
• GAP meshing for field problems
• New meshing technology

5: Less “Reinventing the Wheel”
      Over the years, ANSYS users have gotten very good at writing macros to automate processes and do some pretty fancy things. Most of us enjoy this and it is a large part of our job satisfaction. But if you look at it honestly, hundreds of users around the world are “reinventing the wheel,” doing the same thing  over and over again. With WB many of these common tasks are being built into the code from the ground up. It also includes tools like the Engineering Data tab that allow you to      save things like material properties and time-dependent loads and share them with other users through a library.

4: Not a Technology that You Get Stuck In
       One of the greatest fears that keeps users from trying Workbench is a concern that if they start a job in WB, they will have to stay in WB until they are done. Thanks to some open-minded planning by ANSYS, Inc. developers, you can jump out of WB at any point after you have meshed and finish up your job in ANSYS. The only downside is that geometry does not go with you, but we have not found that to be a serious drawback. For example,  one can specify a group of surfaces as a named component in WB, and thus all associated nodes of the underlying WB mesh are grouped into a component on the ANSYS import for easy reference.

3: Setting Stuff Up Is Faster
      PADT's experience is that it’s just a lot faster to set stuff up in Workbench. There are a lot of reasons for this, but some of the key ones that we have seen are:      

• Consolidation: many tasks have been combined into one
• CAD associativity and parametrics
• Object paradigm (you click on something in the tree then operate on it)
• Context sensitive menus and icons reduce clutter and “hunting” for commands
• Simplified processes
• Automatic Contact Detection

2: Robust Meshing
      Far and away the most common reason for PADT to use Workbench is to mesh poor geometry. Our single largest productivity hit in doing analyses was dealing with geometry that had gaps or slivers in it. Workbench is much better with this sort of thing, and the robust mesher has grown to have many of the controls that users have asked for, and even more can be added.

1: CAD Associativity
      Just edging out “Robust Meshing” is that Workbench models can be associative to CAD models. This can be a huge savings and is really the one thing that Workbench does so much better than any other solution out there. It not only delivers huge savings in time and effort, but also allows you to easily do studies that you would never have considered before.

[ 本帖最后由 whatinrain 于 2007-6-18 23:05 编辑 ]

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