Steady State heat transfer on a 2D plate, geometry not attaching

- August 29, 2019 at 3:42 am
  
  Tristan
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  I am using ANSYS 2019 R2 student edition and I am trying to do a steady state heat transfer on a 2d rectangular plate. I have created the surface in spaceclaim but when I try open model it says:
  
  Update failed for the Model component in Steady-State Thermal. Unable to attach to geometry file C:UsersTristanDocumentsUniversity stuffVIPANSYS stuffPracticeGeometry 2D plate_filesdp0SYSDMSYS.scdoc. Unable to attach geometry.
  
  I have made sure the geometry is a surface before opening model but the error persists.
  
  Please can someone help in this regard.
  
  Thank you.
- August 30, 2019 at 9:56 am
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  I don't use Mechanical, but are there any limitations regarding which plane the 2d part is in? Ie must it be on the z=0 plane?
- August 30, 2019 at 10:00 am
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  2D geometry must be on the XY plane. Axisymmetric Mechanical models must have the axis on the Y-axis (unlike Fluent which uses the X-axis).
- August 30, 2019 at 12:43 pm
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  Thanks Peter; it figures that Mech would use a different axis.....

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