Element free edges

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

Hi everyone,

I have done 2D meshing of my model after extracting its mid surface. I went to ('Tool'-> 'edges'-> 'find edges' )  to find the free edges between the elements and I have got some. I tried 'equivalence' option ('tool'-> 'edges'-> 'equivalence'), 'replace' option ('2d' page-> 'replace') to get rid of that free (red edge), but I couldn't get it solved.

NOTE: I found the free edges still there even after deleting and generating new free edges

Please help me to get rid of the problem. 

 

Thank you in advance

 

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2017

    Hi,

    Normally we can delete the free edges and once they are equivalenced the free edge will not be shown in the next free edge check. 

    Which HyperWorks version you are using?. Please let us know if you face similar issue for any other models also.

     

    Meanwhile, please try with this script which will delete the edges collector created:

     

    set del_comp_list '^edges ed';

    eval *createmark components 1 $del_comp_list;

    *deletemark components 1;

     

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited June 2017

    Hi,

    If there is any minute element , then you cannot equivalence the free edge

    try checking F10-2d-  length<0.1 then delete minute elems 

    or view 'shrink' elems to detect them (menu preferences>graphic> =>shrink)

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