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[LucaMartorelli]

Dear All I am working on my thesis and I am facing issues defining a parameter I need to use as constraint.
I need to define the maximum tilt angle of a blade surface with respect to the horizontal to avoid overhaning in 3D printing. Since I haven't found a way of defining a parameter in design modeler (blade modeler) that output the minimmum angle of a surface, I thought how to work around the issue.
I thought that it probably is "accurate enough" to define the face angle of different elements in specific critical places over the blade surface to verify that the whole blade respect the constraint of minimum angle higher than 30 degrees. I therefore need a way to output the angle of a mesh face wrt a plane, the xy in this case. I am pretty sure that is an easy task using the command tool and remote points tool, but I am very bad at using the commands in ansys, since I have always only used ansys workbenc.
I am still not sure that this can be done in a parametric study, that would be an issue since I am running a response surface optimization. But worth a shot.
If anyone knows how to generate the parameter with this angle from commands, or still better how to output the minimum surface angle, please help.
Thanks a lot for reading Luca

[RK]

Hello Luca, 

You could probably do this in SpaceClaim. You could use block recording to parametrize the curvature.