{"id":294121,"date":"2023-07-20T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/random-geometry-lines-in-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:12:55","slug":"random-geometry-lines-in-mechanical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/random-geometry-lines-in-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"Random geometry lines in Mechanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I import my .SAT file into SpaceClaim and do some editing there (defeaturing, sharing surface) and everything looks good there.&nbsp; Then load up Mechanical and the geometry is messed up with random lines in space that aren&#8217;t connected to the body.&nbsp; The issue is, when I go to mesh, ANSYS tries to force elements onto that line which causes a bad mesh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any insight as to what&#8217;s going on here?&nbsp; Can I somehow delete these random lines in Mechanical?&nbsp; It seems like an edge of one of these openings disassociates with the geoemtry, since i can not select a certain edge.&nbsp; SpaceClaim appears to be okay with the geometry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/20-07-2023-1689862366-ANSYS_Geom.PNG\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-294121","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["266147","200"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.217.200.71"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["302"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["294121"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","266147"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["294274"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["294274"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-07-21 12:26:51"]},"test":"m-littleholtec-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/294121","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\/294121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}