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3D Design

Topics related to Ansys Discovery and Ansys SpaceClaim.

Convert from facets to solid

    • a.montes
      Subscriber

      I want to make a structural analisys for a solid, but i want to make a shell to put a basic infill on its inside.
      For this, previously, I convert from solid to facets to be able to put the basic infill.

      The problem to be when I want to return to solid, because the software create a lot of solids because it doesn´t joint the facets previusly at convertion.

      Does anyone know the process to perform this convertion?

      		
      
      		
      	
    • peteroznewman
      Subscriber

      In Discovery 2025 R1, I created a solid cube on the Design Tab.  On the Facets tab, I selected Convert to get a facet body, then use Shell to remove the inside and select the Basic Infill of square extrusions. Then in the outline, I right click on Facets and select Convert to Solid > Mostly Tesselated. Now there are a lot of solids. The top solid is the original cube and the solids below it are the cavities for the infill.  On the Design tab, use the Combine tool, turn off Keep cutter, select Subtract from target.  Pick the cube as the target, then in the outline hide the first solid (the cube) finally draw a box around all the cavity solids.

      I noticed that some of the cavity solids were defective, so before I did that Combine tool, I repaired the defective cavities.

      After the Combine tool, there is only one solid. I can hide one face and see the infill cavities on the inside.

    • Charudatta Bandgar
      Forum Moderator

      Hello Montes, 

      Was the suggestion helpful?

      Regards,

      Charudatta B

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