Faceted or Solid: AM Thermal-Structural Analysis?

- March 5, 2023 at 1:12 pm
  
  deld
  Subscriber
  
  When I create lattice infills for my geometries in Spaceclaim, they're generated as Facets.
  I can convert the Facets to a Solid.
  I'm using the Additive Prep suite to prepare the model before sending it to Workbench and Mechanical for Thermal-Structural analysis.
  The thermal analysis (yet to run the structural analysis) seems to run fine for the faceted geometry.
  Is there a reason why I would/should convert a geometry from faceted to solid?
- March 14, 2023 at 12:20 pm
  
  Aniket
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  converting geometry facets to solid would allow you some flexibility to change mesh.
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  - March 15, 2023 at 1:34 pm
    
    deld
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    Thanks, Aniket. I've been creating the meshes in Mechanical but I'll have a play with Meshing in Spaceclaim and see if there's any obvious differences and/or benefits.

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