{"id":236539,"date":"2022-09-28T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/problem-with-exporting-smoothed-geometry-from-topology-optimization-study\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:57:39","slug":"problem-with-exporting-smoothed-geometry-from-topology-optimization-study","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/problem-with-exporting-smoothed-geometry-from-topology-optimization-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem with exporting smoothed geometry from topology optimization study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Im using the Ansys Structural Optimization tools to redesign some parts with topology optimization, and im having a lot of trouble transferring and validating the resulting structure using the Design Validation System. The smoothing operation throws an error (&#8220;STL file is corrupted&#8221;) when exporting the model. However, when the smoothed STL file is manually exported it works fine. Without the exported model for the smoothing operation, the Design Validation system does not receive a model (i think?) and also gives an error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I found this thread (\/forum\/forums\/topic\/problems-in-toplogy-optimization\/) on the ANSYS forums with a person who has the exact same problem, but it didn&#8217;t seem like the fixes proposed worked for him. The command suggested seems to be an ANSYS Fluent thing, which im not using.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I&#8217;ve tried with different move limits in the smoothing&nbsp; (1-40) but that doesn&#8217;t seem to make a difference. This issue is across all my projects and two different computers, even on relatively simple studies such as the one in the screenshots attached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I&#8217;m relatively new to Topology Optimization in ANSYS so i might have missed something obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Any help is much appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Im using ANSYS 2022 R1 with a student license on a Windows 10 x64 machine. Below are some pictures of my problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/28-09-2022-1664373228-mceclip0.png\" width=\"689\" height=\"612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/28-09-2022-1664373267-mceclip1.png\" width=\"328\" height=\"432\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/28-09-2022-1664373291-mceclip2.png\" width=\"995\" height=\"656\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-236539","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mechanicalworkbench-1","topic-tag-ansys-error","topic-tag-topology-optimization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["264163","3937"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.48.209.148"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2608"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["236539"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["3937","264163"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["237399"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["237399"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-10-11 12:56:11"]},"test":"eblaab21student-aau-dk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/236539","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/236539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}