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[Nicolasurzua]

Hi, I'm new to ansys and I'm trying to model a 40 * 40 * 160mm beam that has a very thin rectilinear fill (app 0.6mm), to test it in a 3-point bending test, I already modeled the geometry as a solid, but it turns in a mesh with a large number of nodes inside ansys mechanical (structural analisys). I was trying to model the same specimen as a shell to decrease the complexity of the mesh but I have a number of problems during the process.

[Govindan Nagappan]

In Spaceclaim, display all bodies and then use Prepare-> Imprint
Then , inside Spaceclaim, go to Workbench -> Share
This will connect all the surface bodies together. You will have a multibody part. Mesh will be conformal in Mechanical, so you do not need contacts