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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical how to create a crack on a 3D surface body in ANSYS workbench? Reply To: how to create a crack on a 3D surface body in ANSYS workbench?

elhamasadi
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So as you mentioned, I've tried to model the geometry as a solid geometry (using pull option in Spaceclaim), but I still cannot capture the crack using semi-elliptical (Tetrahedron mesh), pre-meshed or arbitrary crack. The message I receive here is that the mesher fails to generate mesh.
Here are my applied settings in semi-elliptical method: