Reply To: Correct procedure?

[alexia.carenini]

• Material: in Maxwell there isn't a distinction between surface and bulk material, so obviously I use the correct material. after the coupling when i obtained the icepak-coupling file the bulk materials were correct but on the surface the only material is steel but i didn't choose it. So i need to change the surface materials with the correspondent of the bulk. I also ask if it is possible to choose the thickness of this surface material, and if not, to know the surface thickness used.
• Sync Material Changes: If i do another coupling process after the mofifies of the materials nothing changes since the coupling starts with the maxwell file.
• Manual Override: i can't do this since i use the student version and i think that some limits don't allow me to obtain the emlosses directly in an icepak document where I copied the maxwell geometry.

in any case using this strategy i notice that the results are too different even if i use the same starting document and i don't change anything in the process.

so i thought to do the one-way coupling on the maxwell file, i obtained the icepak-coupling file with the wrong materials so i change them, then i do analyze all of the icepak-coupling file with the correct materials but again after the analysis i obtained results that are different with the ones obtained with the same starting file nd following the same identical procedure.