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[b.claudet]

Hello,

I'm currently having difficulty with applying the midsurface to the following part.

When selecting midsurface in discovery, i select the surface S1 at one side of the part, and S2 at the other side, and normally the operation automatically shows the whole part to be transformed into one surface.

However my problem here is that is does not exactly do that, as the faces marked in orange are separate surfaces, and therefore i don't have a single surface representing the whole geometry but instead 6, which is a problem because as seen in the figure below, when i try to make a mesh, and show the thick shells and beams, i  get a default in terms of fusioning the surfaces as a single part. Is there a solution to fix this?

[peteroznewman]

Start SpaceClaim, File Open, set the filter to Discovery file types and open the .disco file. On the Workbench tab, click the Share Button and click the green check button. Save the SpaceClaim file.

In Workbench, use a Static Structural analysis, bring the SpaceClaim file into Geometry and open the model in Mechanical. The mesh will be connected across the shared edges.

I tried to do the above in Discovery but got a message that said Shared Topology was not supported for solving in Discovery.