The ANSYS® model database is use by SASSI as an input format for models originally designed using ANSYS®. The user will load these model by use the File Converter or Submodeler Importation . The user has to conform to the modeling restrictions if the user want to import the model into SASSI.

The file format is a ACSII representation of the model that is divide into different blocks of data. Please refer to ANSYS® documentation for a more detailed description of this file.