solid to shell transfer in ansys mechanical

- July 24, 2020 at 8:07 am
  
  user deleted
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  Hi, would you please advise how to transfer from shell to solid in ansys mechanical/space claim?
  
  I don't want to use midsurface function because it creates mid surfaces, whereas I need to have shell based on the top of the solid. I have tried to look at it in the Solid Works as well, but as I have a step file, it is difficult to modify it for some reason. Usually I use thicken function to make from shell solid and hoped to do the same for opposite. Shell function in Ansys doesn't work.
  
  Thank you!
- July 25, 2020 at 1:54 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  In SpaceClaim, you can select all the faces on the top face of the material thickness with a few mouse clicks, since they are all connected with tangent faces.
  
  Ctrl-C to copy those faces and Ctrl-V to paste them in as a surface.
  
  Now delete the solid. You can use that surface directly in mechanical and define the element offset to the top or bottom to compute the bending correctly.
- July 25, 2020 at 9:20 am
  
  user deleted
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  THANK YOU!
- July 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  You're welcome. If it works out, please mark my post with Is Solution to mark this discussion as Solved.