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[shaheen wahab]

Hello Everyone,

I have been trying to mesh a portion with a gap (See attachment). Every time I use Inflation, Automatic Method the meshing fails. if it doesn't fail, the mesh quality is unacceptable. 

I want to use Inflation layers in the portions marked with blue arrows. I don't know what the problem is. I would be really grateful if anyone could help me in this regard

Thank you 

Shaheen

  

 

[shaheen wahab]

Hello everyone,

I used Body Sizing and Automatic method. The mesh generated didn't fail although its quality is unacceptable. The details of the Automatic method and Sizing are in the attachment.

Thanks and regards

Shaheen  

 

[peteroznewman]

Hello Shaheen,

Is this this line along the bottom intentional? 

I'm guessing that you did not intend to have any mesh there, so that needs to be fixed first.

When you construct the "hump" to subtract it from the block, make the hump protrude below the block and be wider than the block prior to the subtract. That will guarantee that you get a clean result for meshing.

After the geometry is clean, use a method Sweep and pick the body, and pick a Source face, which is the face we see in the images above. Once you have the Sweep defined, RMB on the Sweep and pick Inflate this Method, and with the Edge filter, pick the three edges you were pointing to where you want the inflation.

If you have difficulty, please attach a Workbench Project Archive .wbpz file to after you reply.

Regards,

Peter

[shaheen wahab]

Thank you so much, Peter. I am working on it now as you said. If I encounter any difficulty I will get back to you / attach the file.  

Thank you 

With regards

Shaheen 

[Keyur Kanade]

Hello, 

I am not sure if you want to mesh that bottom part. If you want mesh that bottom part, you will need to modify geometry as follows to remove sharp angle. 

Regards, 

Keyur

[shaheen wahab]

Thank you Keyur I will look for it. I guess there has to be some anomaly in the geometry for the mesh to fail every time.

With regards

Shaheen 

[shaheen wahab]

 Hello Peter,

Unfortunately, I could not sweep the geometry. Here I am attaching the file. 

I would be really grateful if you could help me with it. The name is "Mesh with Hump"

Thank you 

With regards

Shaheen 

[shaheen wahab]

Why does it say "File extension not allowed" when I try to upload the wbpj file ?

[shaheen wahab]

Dear Peter,

Sorry, there was some inconvenience regarding the file format. I have attached the file along with. Kindly have a look into it. 

Thank you 

With regards

Shaheen 

[peteroznewman]

Dear Shaheen,

Please follow the instructions in this link to create a .wbpz file, which is permitted to be attached.

The .wbpj file is not useful without the _files folder that has the same name as the .wbpj file.  If you put those two things in a zip file, you are allowed to attach zip files also.

Regards,

Peter

[shaheen wahab]

Hello Peter,

I hope this works now...

Thank you

With regards

Shaheen

[peteroznewman]

Hello Shaheen,

I was able to open your model. Please reply with this file attached.

My Output file2 x 10x2.6+100 - YZ changed - Copy.txt

You are allowed to attach .txt file extenstions.

Regards,

Peter

P.S. you didn't need put the .wbpz file into the zip file, you can attach that extension directly.

[shaheen wahab]

Dear Peter, 

If I got you correct you asked me to attach the .txt file and I am doing the same. 

[peteroznewman]

Hello Shaheen,

The source of your problem is the end point on the curve has a positive Z coordinate.

You need to add another point that has either a zero Z coordinate or even a negative Z coordinate.  This positive Z coordinate is the reason you are getting a sliver of material and a failure to mesh. Add a point (115, 0, 0) to this end and a point (84.7, 0, 0) at the other end.

Regards,

Peter

[shaheen wahab]

Thank you so much, Peter for your invaluable guidance. I will do the same and update the entire thing and let you know. I really appreciate your help. 

With regards

Shaheen 

 

[peteroznewman]

Dear Shaheen,

Attached is the modified coordinates file. Try changing to this file and reconstructing your model with these zero end points.

I will have time later in the day to help further if you don't succeed with this file.

Regards,

Peter

[peteroznewman]

Dear Shaheen,

Here is a simpler construction. You go directly to a 3D curve that uses the coordinates file, create a line from points (end points), Extrude the curve and line then Boolean subtract.

Here is the inflation layer. I only put 2 elements along the sweep, but you can change that. Did you consider running a 2D model first?

Attached is an ANSYS 19.0 archive.

Kind regards,

Peter

[shaheen wahab]

Dear Peter,

That is perfect. Thank you so much. No, I didn't do any 2D model. 

With regards

Shaheen 

[shaheen wahab]

Dear Peter,

I changed everything just the way you mentioned. Thanks a ton for your help. I was so stuck. I did everything once again to be clear about the construction and meshing process and it did work very well. The mesh quality is also very good. Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it   

With regards 

Shaheen 

[peteroznewman]

Dear Shaheen,

You're welcome.  I did find selecting the 3D curve and line to make the Extrude of the hump can be difficult. Some special conditions have to be present to allow those to be selected and I'm not sure exactly what those conditions are, but I managed to stumble on them in the end.

Best regards,

Peter

[shaheen wahab]

Dear Peter,

Yes, it was indeed somewhat tricky to use those tools and then extrude. I failed so many times in doing the Extrude. But finally, with your help, I could do it  

Your approach was a lot easier and clear. The geometry seemed so clean and the mesh quality was very good as well.

Thank you to you 

With regards

Shaheen