{"id":161253,"date":"2021-08-12T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/acp-composites-prep-post-with-apdl-model\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:05:20","slug":"acp-composites-prep-post-with-apdl-model","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/acp-composites-prep-post-with-apdl-model\/","title":{"rendered":"ACP Composites Prep\/Post with APDL model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m considering using ACP PrepPost to make models of wind turbine blades using some of the scripting features, but there are a few things that would be required for this that aren&rsquo;t really covered anywhere in the documentation. Currently I make blade models using a MATLAB script for APDL and direct meshing, but I&rsquo;m getting to the point now where the terrible interface is driving me towards WorkBench (which is obviously what ANSYS want), so for my version 2.0 of the tool I&rsquo;m considering using SpaceClaim to create Geometry, meshing it in Mechanical then using ACP PrepPost to apply laminates, all driven by Python scripting.<\/p>\n<p>Blades typically have a few bondlines at the leading edge, trailing edge and between the spar box and shells. I want to create solid models from the inputs, which it looks like ACP PrepPost would be good at, but I can&rsquo;t see how I&rsquo;d achieve the bond at the trailing edge as shown below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/471\/U0WC0HDBYMLC.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/471\/U0WC0HDBYMLC.png\" alt=\"WT_bond.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161253","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-acp","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["236"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2360"],"_bbp_topic_status":["answered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["161253"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["6","185641"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["188885"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["188885"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-08-25 00:04:56"]},"test":"peter_greaves"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358488,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161253\/revisions\/358488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}