Reply To: Creating only surface mesh on midsurface

[peteroznewman]

Is this what you want?

It came from a midsurface body in my CAD system that looked like this:

That came from a solid cylinder that looked like this:

These are all 3D objects. I think you are using the term 2D when you mean a surface body that is covered with a shell mesh.

ANSYS reserves the term 2D analysis for "flat" geometry that only exists in the X-Y plane of the CAD system. Don't set the Geometry type to 2D if what you want to import is a 3D object.

Hope that helps.