Converting SHELL91 to SHELL281 or similar in MAPDL

- December 5, 2023 at 3:29 am
  
  Gabriel Ackall
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  Hi, I have an old file many years old that contains a composite laminate structure defined with lay-ups in the SHELL91 element type. I am in APDL 23R2 and thus SHELL91 is a deprecated element type and I am unable to run an analysis on this model. Unfortunately this model has thousands of nodes and defined materials/elements so I can't just restart from scratch and build the file again. Is there any way to convert these SHELL91 elements into SHELL281 or a similar element type that I will be able to run an analysis on. Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you!
- December 5, 2023 at 10:34 am
  
  Aniket
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  This will be answered here: /forum/forums/topic/converting-shell91-to-shell281-or-similar-in-mapdl/
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