student versions do not support CAD connections. Assuming that you have research or commercial license which can support this, try the following all with administrative access:
- Close all workbench and CAD instances
- Unconfigure for all users reader mode, you may also unconfigure for the current user after that
- unconfigure for all users associative mode, you may also unconfigure for the current user after that
- now check Windows (ansys.com) (https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v202/en/ref_cad/cadWindows.html) for supported versions of the CAD in Plugin mode and check if you are using a supported version of the CAD
- now configure in associative mode and start new session of CAD and see if you can see a separate menu for starting the workbench in the CAD, if you see that, the configuration is successful in the associative mode
- Now create a simple cube, and save the CAD file and then start workbench from CAD, keep prefixes as blank, and open the geometry in Mechanical. This should read all parameters.
-Aniket
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