Error While selecting surfaces to create mid surface in design modeler

- July 2, 2020 at 2:14 pm
  
  Sreehari
  Subscriber
  
  I am trying to mesh a very thin surface and I am unable to create a mid surface in Design Modeler as every time I try to select the pair of faces to create a mid surface I am getting the following error " Warning: Face pair outside Selection Tolerance.Suggest: 6.25 e-08m". And I am unable to select the pair of surfaces. Can anybody help me out with this error message, as to what might be the reason and how to rectify it?
- July 3, 2020 at 4:20 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  what is thickness of your geometry?
  
  can you please try spaceclaim?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4kZ7ikTaT8
  
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- July 3, 2020 at 9:36 am
  
  Sreehari
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  Is there any way to solve this in design modeller itself, as I am much more used to design modeller, the thickness of the smallest body is 5 e-06m. Could you tell me why I am getting such an error?
- July 3, 2020 at 8:02 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  If the body is so thin, do you even need a midsuface? What if you create surface bodies from the faces on one side of the solid then delete the solid.
- July 10, 2020 at 4:53 pm
  
  Sreehari
  Subscriber
  
  I am actually working on a project where I have to mesh a very thin layer on a circuit board, what do you think is the best method for such meshing. I am getting some failed mesh upon simply using the general way
  
  Is there any specific tutorial or technique for meshing such parts, I would very much like to know about such methods.
- July 10, 2020 at 5:01 pm
  
  Sreehari
  Subscriber
  
  All needs to be in hexa mesh as well
- July 11, 2020 at 2:52 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Please insert an image of your geometry.
- July 12, 2020 at 10:01 am
  
  Sreehari
  Subscriber
  
  These are a part of the geometry where I am getting the error, I am getting the failed mesh in mid-layer shown in image above, I have also hidden the top two layer in next image to get a better understanding.
  
  I am also getting an error message in meshing the mid-layer as follows
  
  ERROR: The meshing has completed, but some elements are not compliant with the applied shape checking criteria.
  
  Warning: The MultiZone meshing has completed, but some bad surface elements were created.
  
  Could you please tell me why I am getting such messages and the reason for failed mesh and how to rectify it
  
  Thanks in advance