{"id":34519,"date":"2019-04-07T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/taking-a-surface-body-to-a-solid-body\/"},"modified":"2019-04-07T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:51:06","slug":"taking-a-surface-body-to-a-solid-body","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/taking-a-surface-body-to-a-solid-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Surface body to a Solid body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, first of if I am posting in the wrong fourm i do apologize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I an very new to ANSYS (engineering student), never used the program however I have been tasked with conducting a CFD for a project. I created the model with solidworks, saved it as a IGES file and import the file to the program. When I am creating my mesh and selecting my conditions i notice that under geometry i have solids and surface bodies. Once i enter the setup phase, only the solid bodies show up. I need everything so my question is how to make those surface bodies solid or if there is any other method i can go about doing this. I&#8217;m not sure what information you may need, so please ask and I&#8217;ll give.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/7954dc64-4892-4a43-94bb-aa28001b5324\/29938f44-c816-49e8-a772-aa28001de9f2_capture.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/7954dc64-4892-4a43-94bb-aa28001b5324\/ea57e5ae-8d80-4c97-8866-aa28001e568a_capture.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-34519","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["6691"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["7089"],"_bbp_subscription":["239714"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["34519"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","161677","164293"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["82278"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["82278"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-04-07 04:19:30"]},"test":"adc430"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34519","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\/34519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}