Geometry – not showing thickness, mass, volume

- September 19, 2023 at 11:24 pm
  
  Sunil Prakash
  Subscriber
  
  Geomtery was cleaned and mid surface extracted in SpaceClaim. When I read the model into Ansys Mechanical, only few surfaces show up with "?" against them and rest of the surfaces are ok. I see what's wrong with surfaces with "?" against them and notice that it does not have option to enter thickness, it has MATERIAL assigned, still NO mass and NO volume. How to fix this problem?
- September 20, 2023 at 1:41 pm
  
  Rahul Kumbhar
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi @Sunil,
  If you look at the icons next to the question mark, it appears they are imported as solids. The problem might be that there could be duplicate extracted mid-surfaces, which got merged to create zero thickness volumes. I suggest you to check these bodies in Spaceclaim, use Detach option to separate faces
- September 20, 2023 at 2:49 pm
  
  Sunil Prakash
  Subscriber
  
  Based on response from Ansys Technical Team:
  Open Spaceclaim, identify part in tree, right click detach. Supress the solid surface. This fixed the problem.

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