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[edang]

Hello everyone!

I have imported a cubic cell structure that I have attached a picture for (picture 1). The problem is when meshing this structure I get 2 meshes for the overlapping solid parts between a unit cell. Picture 2 shows a single unit cell highlighted in this structure. Picture 3 shows 2 unit cells next to each other and circled is the issue I am trying to solve. The overlapping geometry makes 2 meshes in the same place. Is there a way to only mesh one of these solid faces without editing the geometry file?

Picture 1.PNG

[peteroznewman]

nWhen you make a unit of a 3D truss and are going to stack 4 copies of it along the X-axis, then you need to leave out the bars on the +X side of the unit cube because the missing bars are going to be filled by the next cube that is copied in. When the last cube in the row is copied into the 4th position in the stack and that is the last cube, you have to fill in the missing bars on the +X side of that cube.nIf you are making a 2D pattern and copying the cube in the X and Y directions then you need to leave the bars on the +Y face out on the unit cube.nIf you are making a 3D pattern, then you need to leave the bars on the +Z face of the unit cube.n