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[rafi4366]

I m modelling a plate with 3 stiffeners along length and 8 stiffeners along width, all using shell281 elements in APDL.

How do I mesh at intersection of these stiffeners?

I m getting errors like pivot solver term errors, model improperly constrained etc.

How do I resolve the issue of overlapping meshing ? Kindly help which APDL commands are to be used.

[Rahul Kumbhar]

To get conformal nodes, you should merge the areas using AGLUE command. Remove the overlapping areas. Once Areas are connected properly, mesher can create properly connected mesh.n

[rafi4366]

Thank you for the help. Remodeled the overlapping areas and it worked. NUMMRG command was used to get the desired meshing. n