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[efw380]

Hi everyone,

I'm struggling to import CAD Data from NX to an static structural analysis to conduct a parametric design optimization.

[mrife]

The default expectation is that all bodies in a part are the same type. See line 34 of the Properties screen shot you added (thank you for that!). Since the part contains a solid and a surface body, neither are imported as the Mixed Import is set to None. Try setting that to Solid/Surface and refreshing the Model cell from the WB Project Page.

Mike

[efw380]

Hi Mike you saved my day (and night)! Thanks a lot.
Here the excerpt from the documentation:

[peteroznewman]

It has been many years since I imported NX CAD into ANSYS. What I found at the time was that a part that had a mixture of sheet and solid bodies had problems in meshing. The mesher would sometimes fail to mesh to bodies. The workaround was to create two dummy parts and put all the solids into one dummy part and all the sheet bodies into another dummy part. Then both dummy parts meshed normally. I don't know if that is still a problem, but if you see problems meshing, try separating the bodies into two parts: all solids and all sheets.