

When you pick on the edge of a surface or solid, or even a straight sketched line, the red arrow of the Move Tool will point in the direction of the curve. I discovered that the Move Tool behaves in a very specific way, a way that we can use for our need. So I thought I would share with you what I found, after a little bit of digging and playing. But that doesn’t help when you read in CAD files. The directions are controlled by which point you pick first while sketching, so if you are careful, you can make sure they are all consistent. In ANSYS SpaceClaim, there is no way to just display the edge directions. The Display Edge Direction is also how you turn those off.) (I have also had three tech support calls about weird spikes showing up in customers’ geometry. You need to make sure that all your pipes in a thermal analysis, for instance, are flowing in the same direction. The directions of the edges or curves affects things like mesh biasing factors and mass flow rate boundary conditions. This will turn on arrows so that you can see the edge directions. You can do it in Mechanical, on the Edge Graphics Options Toolbar: “ How do you view edge directions in ANSYS SpaceClaim? ” As it so often does, another blog article idea came from a tech support question that I received the other day.
