Design Modeler – How to delete overlap between bodies?

- April 24, 2024 at 4:05 pm
  
  Michela Benazzi
  Subscriber
  
  Hello everyone! Thank you in advance for any help.
  I am trying to model a quarter section (split axially) of a continuous flow electrochemical reactor. The anode is on one side, cathode on the other with a potential drop across (orange and green bodies in the picture). I made the electrodes using "Extrude", but the bodies are overlapping with the reactor, and that is causing issues when I move to Fluent. I tried fixing it by merging all the bodies with "Boolean" and then using "Extrude" again, such that I would have the electrodes only wrapped around the reactor cylinder, but not inside. It did not work and I would appreciate any suggestions!
- April 24, 2024 at 4:06 pm
  
  Michela Benazzi
  Subscriber
  
  To clarify, I am modelling a quarter of the reactor to reduce mesh complexity, since I am using a Student version of the software. Thanks!
- April 24, 2024 at 8:25 pm
  
  Michela Benazzi
  Subscriber
  
  Hello! Just an Update: I made all of of the bodies into a New Part and then used Share Topology. Now all the parts including the previous overlaps are split: not quite what I wanted as the boundaries are still there, but at least the electrodes are not overlapping the cylinder body anymore.
- April 24, 2024 at 8:26 pm
  
  Michela Benazzi
  Subscriber
  
  I am actually getting this error which is affecting meshing now, unfortunately. I would love any assistance.