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Design Modeler – How to delete overlap between bodies?

    • Michela Benazzi
      Subscriber

      Hello everyone! Thank you in advance for any help.

      I am trying to model a quarter section (split axially) of a continuous flow electrochemical reactor. The anode is on one side, cathode on the other with a potential drop across (orange and green bodies in the picture). I made the electrodes using "Extrude", but the bodies are overlapping with the reactor, and that is causing issues when I move to Fluent. I tried fixing it by merging all the bodies with "Boolean" and then using "Extrude" again, such that I would have the electrodes only wrapped around the reactor cylinder, but not inside. It did not work and I would appreciate any suggestions!

    • Michela Benazzi
      Subscriber

      To clarify, I am modelling a quarter of the reactor to reduce mesh complexity, since I am using a Student version of the software. Thanks!

    • Michela Benazzi
      Subscriber

      Hello! Just an Update: I made all of of the bodies into a New Part and then used Share Topology. Now all the parts including the previous overlaps are split: not quite what I wanted as the boundaries are still there, but at least the electrodes are not overlapping the cylinder body anymore.

    • Michela Benazzi
      Subscriber

      I am actually getting this error which is affecting meshing now, unfortunately. I would love any assistance.

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