How-to guides

One task, assumed competence, no teaching. The reader knows what they want and needs the clicks that do it.

Titled as the task, phrased the way somebody would search for it.

Guide
Import STEP geometry and split it into patches
Build and repair geometry in the Geometry workbench
Import a mesh from another tool
Add a refinement region around a body
Add boundary layers to a wall
Choose a turbulence model
Set a velocity inlet and a pressure outlet
Run in parallel
Run on a remote machine over SSH
Run on SHD Cloud
Use the run queue
Run a parameter study or a DoE
Run a script and record a macro
Restart from an existing solution
Reduce a 3-D case to 2-D
Set up an axisymmetric case
Run a drop test
Run a blast analysis
Run a ballistic impact
Export results for another tool
Produce a comparison report
Diagnose a diverging run

Where things are

Two places are named throughout, and they are not the same thing.

• A bold name on its own — “Select Refinements” — is a row in the setup tree down the left. Selecting it opens that pane.
• Tab → GROUP → Command — “Model → MESH → Generate mesh” — is the ribbon across the top. It has three tabs: Model (the case: geometry, physics, mesh and runs), Geometry (sketching and CAD operations) and Results (filters, plots and captures over the solution). Picking Results is what turns post-processing on; picking a tab switches the workbench, not just the strip of buttons.

A ribbon command that does not apply is greyed rather than hidden, with the reason on hover. That is deliberate: “Continue is greyed because no finished run is selected” is worth more than a button that was never drawn.

The last guide overlaps Troubleshooting deliberately. Troubleshooting is indexed by the error; this is indexed by the intent, and somebody who has not got an error message yet will look here.