HELP: Self intersecting or invalid profiles were ignored

- October 21, 2023 at 9:27 am
  
  Devayani Balkrishnan
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  Hi, I'm very new to ANSYS and am trying to analyse compression stress on thin structures.
  I don't understand why the extrusion doesn't work correctly for some of my structures.
- October 21, 2023 at 9:39 am
  
  Devayani Balkrishnan
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  Making the structure bigger generates this
- October 21, 2023 at 10:20 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  I suggest you extrude those lines as zero thickness surfaces instead of solid bodies. When you have the surfaces you need, use Shared Topology to make the mesh connect across separate surface bodies. In Mechanical, you can assign the thickness to the surfaces that the shell elements will use.

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