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  3. I import STL of deformed shape of shell body from Mechanical to SCDM. Why can’t I get a good STL when shell thickness is turned OFF?

I import STL of deformed shape of shell body from Mechanical to SCDM. Why can’t I get a good STL when shell thickness is turned OFF?

Tagged: 17.2, beams-and-shells, mechanical, modeling-and-meshing, structural-mechanics
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:00 am
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      When you turn off the thickness, the two skins of a shell body simply collapses. That means there are still two surfaces of a shell but zero gap between them. Due to zero gap, these STL elements of the two skin get connected together which makes it duplicate elements and intersection.

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