{"id":383407,"date":"2024-09-21T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/fluid-domain-unable-to-mesh-due-to-at-least-one-body-has-no-elements-error\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:26:23","slug":"fluid-domain-unable-to-mesh-due-to-at-least-one-body-has-no-elements-error","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/fluid-domain-unable-to-mesh-due-to-at-least-one-body-has-no-elements-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluid domain unable to mesh due to &#8220;At least one body has no elements&#8221; Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi y&#8217;all,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m trying to mesh an internal fluid domain, and I&#8217;m consistently getting the following error:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#8221;At least one body has no elements in it. &nbsp;This may be due to mesh based defeaturing of the geometry. &nbsp;The offending bodies can be identified in the worksheet view on the Geometry folder and suppressed if desired.&#8221;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/troubleshotting-at-least-one-body-has-no-elements-in-it-v0-dlafoi1sb4qd1.png?width=1919&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=7a315fbf17fc6ea7fc3b8510a533a13859f2bb36\" alt=\"r\/ANSYS - Troubleshotting &quot;At least one body has no elements in it&quot; Error\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I googled the error code to find past threads, I found that the general consensus was to look at the &#8220;Worksheet&#8221; tab to see which body has 0 elements\/nodes and this is what I see.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/troubleshotting-at-least-one-body-has-no-elements-in-it-v0-kwm8itmac4qd1.png?width=394&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=cfac3613e07c7f77c2f4cb0d7f6b105cbbeb1d3c\" alt=\"r\/ANSYS - Troubleshotting &quot;At least one body has no elements in it&quot; Error\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m sure the problem had to deal with the geometry of the fluid domain. I used the extract volume feature on the inlets and outlets of a manifold, then used the &#8220;combine&#8221; feature to merge the bodies into one, resulting in the geometry above. Where did I mess up? Is this a meshing problem or do I need to edit my geometry in spaceclaim?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-383407","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["458908","62"],"_bbp_author_ip":["73.210.155.107"],"_btv_view_count":["420"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["383407"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","458908"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["383438"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["383438"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-23 06:28:21"]},"test":"pawlik2illinois-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383407","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\/383407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}