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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical Meshing of facets in ANSYS mechanical Reply To: Meshing of facets in ANSYS mechanical

peteroznewman
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Hi

Mechanical needs geomety to mesh and facets from an STL file are not considered geometry.

Open the STL file in SpaceClaim and use the tools on the Facets tab to create geometry from the facets such as the shrinkwrap tool.

I have a collection of videos on YouTube that show how to do this. 

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