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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical Thin-walled tube Meshing Reply To: Thin-walled tube Meshing

peteroznewman
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Open the solid body tube in SpaceClaim and use the Midsurface tool on the Prepare tab.  Then the solid body that meshed very ill with solid elements will be replaced with a midsurface with an assigned thickness that will mesh very well with shell elements.

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