March 15, 2023 at 6:55 am
Vinayak Vipradas
Ansys Employee

The surface ie crack geometry can be planar or non-planar. You can create this surface in one of the upstream CAD applications such as Discovery or SpaceClaim. 

For more information on how to create Surface Bodies, please refer to the following link:
Surface Bodies (ansys.com) 

Hope this answers your question. 

Thanks, 
Vinayak