What sort of model are you trying to analyze?

I've don'e a lot of programming between Rhino and Structural analysis programs, but not Ansys yet (if there's enough demand, I'll look at it in the new year), but mainly for skeletal models. This includes intercepting the basis of a structural model generated in Grasshopper.

Take a look at my blog http://geometrygym.blogspot.com and the wiki where you can download the plug-ins to try at http://www.geometrygym.com

If you want to learn more, or discuss it further, feel free to get in touch. Discussions with a few in Academia have so far led to them trying the free academic version of GSA instead of using Ansys. Horses for courses, depends on what you are trying to model.

Cheers,

Jon