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[laureng99]

Hello,

The beam elements of the lattice I created in Spaceclaim are not importing into Mechanical, just the two base plate surfaces and one singular beam element.

[peteroznewman]

Hello,nI don't know why the transfer is misbehaving but I have a workaround.nLeave Share Topology at None in SC so that all the beams come into Mechanical.nMesh the beams. Hide the plates. Insert a Mesh Merge item under the Mesh category and do an automatic merge. This will connect the end points of all the beams to each other. The resulting mesh is identical to the mesh you would get if Share Topology was working.n

[laureng99]

Hello,nI am using Ansys 2020 R2, and I don't appear to have the Mesh Merge function. Do you know what the equivalent item is in this software?n

[peteroznewman]

Hello,nSorry, I wasn't precise in my words, it is called Node Merge Group and you insert that under Mesh. Here are two surface bodies meshed, and you can see that the Edge Color is set to By Connection and so that edge on the rectangle touching the circular disk is not connected.nIn the image below, once you have the folder, you right click on that and Detect Connections, then you Generate.nAfter the Generate, the color of the edge has changed to purple, indicating that the edge is connected. Note that the second disk is not connected because only 2 bodies were included in the scope of the Node Merge Group.nThere is another method to make connections in the Mesh and that is to add a Mesh Connection Group, which works differently, but that is an answer for a different question.n