Export thickness of 2d elements as iges

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

 

I have been doing some size and composites optimizations and have been working with 2D elements. I want to export the geometry including the results of the thickness of my elements/plys to visualize in other prgramms (eg iges, step).

 

Is this possible? if so how?

thanks

 

Diego

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2016

    Hi Diegoz,

     

    There are few tools available in Aerospace profile. You can use them to export shape of your plies. But I doubt whether the same exports the thickness. 

     

    My understanding is, size optimized results may have discrete thickness for individual plies, it is easy to assign in any other.

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited May 2016

    Export the complete  stacking  data ( stacking sequence ,  ply info such as , thickness , theta , ply shape  etc ) in a hdf5  file format  , this is very similar to fibersim data. 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2016

    thank you for your reply,

     

    unfortunately this does not help me very much. Since I dont want to export the information of the thickness.

     

    What I want is to export some sort of file (best would be iges or step) with a 3D model of the visualization of the thickness of the plys. Like when you press the button for 3D visualization of 2D elements and you can see all plies and their thickness. Is there a way of converting this 3D visualization into a solid or stl file?

     

    thank you in advance

    Diegoz

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2016

    Hi Diegoz,

     

    There is an option in Aerospace profile where you can convert shell to solid. Check if that is any help for you.

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2016

    Hi Prakash,

     

    I have only the student version, since I am using hyperworks 14 for my master thesis. I dont find the aerospace profile. Is it also in the student version?

     

     

     

    best regards,

    Diego

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  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited May 2016
    Altair Forum User said:

    Hi Diegoz,

     

    There is an option in Aerospace profile where you can convert shell to solid. Check if that is any help for you.

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    Even you could convert from 'shell' to 'Solid', but that's FE entities. How you can export them into IGES/STEP asked by author of this thread?

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2016

    I know how to export solids into iges or step. But my problem is that my shells are not solids and I dont have the aerospace profile.

     

    How can I get the aerospace profile?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2016

    anyone ??

     

    I really need to convert shells to solid. How do I get this Aerospace profile??

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited June 2016

    Set user profile to Engineering solutions.See attached screenshot.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Aerospace.JPG

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited June 2016

    Looks like this user profile is omitted from SE.If you can share file i could try same in full version.

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