{"id":65995,"date":"2018-10-08T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/65995\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:23:11","slug":"65995","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/65995\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Mid surface extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Kiran,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If you are in SpaceClaim, you cannot generate a Midsurface unless the faces have a constant wall thickness. I constructed the wedge below. Note that the Midsurface tool will not select the non-parallel faces.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/3e825b35-df61-45f5-9693-a81101684b62\/7dc2adc2-f12b-4437-832b-a9730180be36_2018-10-08-19-14-52-a-static-structural---design1---spaceclaim.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Another CAD system can create that Midsurface and its FEA model has variable thickness shell elements. <br \/>I recommend you keep the part as a solid and mesh with solid elements.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-65995","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/65995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/65995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}