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[per.pucher]

Hello everyone!

I'm currently trying to mesh thin wires (0.05mm x 0.05mm x 50mm) within a larger structure. See picture below. I tried to make a midsurface out of the wires in Spaceclaim but I get an error message (impossible to create midsurface, the faces could not be shifted). Is there another way to mesh these thin wires, like modeling them as 1D beams ?

Thanks, kind regards.

[deepak.deepak]

Hi,

Please try Extract option, to generate 1D Beam element.

Regards,

Deepak K.

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[Erik Kostson]

 

Hi

Shell:

Because they are so thin, one can just select on of these faces (belonging to the thin parts shown), and do ctrl+c, and ctrl+v which will give us a new surface body that can be meshed with shell elements later (and connected to main body using contacts).

For beams see the above post.

All the best

Erik

 

[per.pucher]

Thank you very much, your responses solved my issue !

Per P.

[Erik Kostson]

Great that it helped

 

All the best

 

Erik