ACP transfers wrong ply assignment to solver

- July 9, 2019 at 7:56 pm
  
  mene
  Subscriber
  
  Good day to all
  
  I am trying to simulate a composite structure comprised by a plate with top hat stiffeners and some solids using ACP. However when I transfer through workbench the data to the static structural in order to solve, the plies I created and assigned on the oriented selection sets in ACP are assigned to random elements and not where I assigned them.
  
  Does anybody have any idea why this might be happening?
  
  I have also attached the zipped .wbjd file in case someone wants to take a look
  
  Thank you
  
  Menelaos
- July 10, 2019 at 1:06 pm
  
  Wenlong
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Menelaos,
  
  The file you attached is not an archived workbench file so it cannot be viewed. Please choose "archive" in the File menu of Workbench.
  
  Bests,
  
  Wenlong
- July 10, 2019 at 1:15 pm
  
  mene
  Subscriber
  
  Dear Wenlong
  
  Thank you for your reply
  
  The problematic module is "D". Please see attached
- July 10, 2019 at 2:42 pm
  
  Wenlong
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Menelaos,
  
  The issue happens when you include solids in your composite creation in ACP(Pre). You want to make sure there are shells only in the model of ACP(Pre).
  
  To include solid in the final model, you can create another mechanical module, import the same geometry, and suppress all the shells.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Bests,
  
  Wenlong
- July 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm
  
  mene
  Subscriber
  
  I will look into it.
  
  Thank you
  
  Menelaos

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