This posting is a summary of what I learned. It lets you use Excel to calculate values. It is not a tool that lets you “drive” your project from Excel. and they reminded me of what this is: an Excel Solver System. Then I talked to some folks at ANSYS, Inc. So I backed up, actually read the help (gasp!) and after a experimenting got it to work, I thought. My assumptions were not valid, it didn’t work the way I expected because, it turned out, I was not thinking about how it fit into the project correctly. So I dragged it out on my project page and tried to use it… and got no where. Then, last week, I noticed an Excel icon just sitting there in the toolbox, mocking me, taunting me to use it. I remember reading about these things as they came out, even wrote about how cool they were, but I never had the opportunity to use them. In the past couple of releases our friendly neighborhood ANSYS developers have added a lot of different ways to work with Excel: saving tables to a file, Python scripting to talk to Excel, and an Excel System. And a lot of the time you wish you could talk directly from Excel to ANSYS – and in the day many of us wrote kludgey VB Macros that would write APDL scripts run ANSYS MAPDL in the background. If you are like me, you do everything you can’t do in ANSYS in Excel. Microsoft Excel is the most used engineer tool in the world.
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