Below is our original Mechanical Desktop solid model. Select the File / Export / IGES menu in Mechanical Desktop. Enter a name for the IGES file; you may want to use the convention of replacing the DWG extension in your Mechanical Desktop file with an IGS extension. For example, if your solid model was stored as bar.dwg, you might make your IGES file bar.igs Exit Mechanical Desktop and start ANSYS.

Once you're in the ANSYS interface, select File / Import / IGES In the first IGES dialog box, you may want to use the Defeature model option to eliminate very small features or graphical artifacts that ANSYS sometimes has a hard time handling. I-DEAS or other solid modelers may generate IGES files of differing quality, so you may need to use different options to import other programs' geometry. Select the filename of the IGES file you exported from Mechanical Desktop. The model geometry should cleanly import into ANSYS. If not, try clearing your session, and re-importing with different options.

Below is the final ANSYS mesh of the model after we'd picked an element type and used the meshtool to generate the mesh.

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