{"id":28332,"date":"2017-11-03T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/creating-only-surface-mesh-on-midsurface\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T23:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:20:17","slug":"creating-only-surface-mesh-on-midsurface","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/creating-only-surface-mesh-on-midsurface\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating only surface mesh on midsurface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoticon\" src=\"\/content\/images\/emoticons\/facebook-smiley-face-for-comments.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to create simulation of a hydraulic cylinder. I created a midsurface in DesignModeler from Inventor part, and next solve the problem in Mechanical. First, I tried to make 2D analysis but i get an error<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/p>\n<p>PlugIn Error: No valid bodies found for 2D Analysis in the folowing parts:<br \/>Cylinder<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When I create 3D mesh, i get also volume mesh. So my question is: is it possible to create&nbsp;<strong>only a<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>surface mesh<\/strong>, on this cylinder midsurface?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hope I explained this right, I&#8217;m still learning FEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-28332","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["498"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1789"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["28332"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","154968"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["55408"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["55408"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2017-11-04 14:34:31"]},"test":"arct"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/28332","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\/28332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}