{"id":371355,"date":"2024-07-10T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-thickness-of-the-shell-surface-from-faces\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:13:06","slug":"meshing-thickness-of-the-shell-surface-from-faces","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/meshing-thickness-of-the-shell-surface-from-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshing thickness of the shell (Surface from Faces)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>I am performing a FEA analysis and creating a shell in Workbench (<strong>Surface from Faces<\/strong>). I assigned a 2mm thickness to my desired material to resist a certain pressure. I want to refine the mesh to something that looks like the yellow picture (mine is in pink), but ANSYS cannot refine the elements in the thickness. Do you have any other suggestions for successfully running this analysis?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-colorbox-image cboxElement\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/10-07-2024-1720635392-mceclip0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/10-07-2024-1720635392-mceclip0.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively,&nbsp;<strong>is there another way to create this wall from my solid geometry that is not a shell<\/strong>? I am using&nbsp;<strong>Extrude&nbsp;<\/strong>but not sure what should be my &#8220;<strong>Direction Vector<\/strong>&#8221; because i want the thickness to be assigned perpendicular to the 188 faces of my geometry but not sure what to choose so that ANSYS will assign the thickness perpendicular to each face<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-colorbox-image cboxElement\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/10-07-2024-1720638386-mceclip0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/10-07-2024-1720638386-mceclip0.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-371355","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-fea","topic-tag-meshing","topic-tag-shell","topic-tag-shell-thickness-1","topic-tag-wall-thickness-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["431728","13659"],"_bbp_author_ip":["130.215.190.183"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["300"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1721227095:431728"],"_bbp_topic_id":["371355"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["13659","431728"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["374490"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["374490"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-07-31 13:02:40"]},"test":"751ef47ef94a7db2035eda1dd10abecb4b252174"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/371355","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/371355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371366,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/371355\/revisions\/371366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}