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[colintho]

Hello, 

 

I am building the geometry of an absorber plate in ANSYS design modeller and have done the first row of ribs that I am applying. Is there a way to duplicate these up the rest of the plate or do I have to draw them every time? Images can be seen below.

Any help much appreciated as this is very time consuming

It should end up like this

Thanks

 

[peteroznewman]

You should keep the Vee parts separate (Add Frozen) and use Pattern to copy the bodies then Unite them at the end.

[colintho]

Hi Peter,

 

Thank you so much for that, so I have made the pattern and united them via Boolean.

 

When I now try to extract them from my frozen body its gets a manifold error any ideas?

[peteroznewman]

You have to make the pieces taller so they penetrate the sheet before you do the unite. It is unreliable when you just have face touching face to unite.

[colintho]

So if I try extruding axisymmetric so they intersect the sheet this should work? I keep getting an issue saying I'm exceeding the limits for academic design modeller that is restricting me a lot

[colintho]

Just tried extruding axisymmetric to intersect the plate but this hasn't worked either! Any other ideas? Sorry for all the questions been trying to get this to work for a long time now!

[peteroznewman]

The Student license has a limit of 300 faces and/or 50 bodies. 

In your other Discussion, you have created what you want in SolidWorks, do you need to do it in DesignModeler?

Also in your other Discussion, I showed you how to make the Fluid Volume, which is what is failing in the attached file above.

[colintho]

I've managed to get it to work in design modeller, it didn't have to use the DM geometry but makes it a little easier for editing later!

I did it in stages in design modeller using boolean unites to add the V shapes to the body as I went which reduced the number of faces.

 

Out of interest does an enclosure still need a boolean subtraction or does an enclosure already subtract the solid from it itself?

[peteroznewman]

Enclosure does the Boolean subtraction automatically in one feature.