Sorting Mesh by thickness

Akshay Punde_21206
Akshay Punde_21206 New Altair Community Member
edited November 2021 in Community Q&A

I have meshed model with multiple components for same mesh thickness I want to move them in single component per thickness, Do we have any macro for it?

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  • Rogerio Nakano_21179
    Rogerio Nakano_21179 New Altair Community Member
    edited October 2021

    Hi

    There are several scripts in the Altair Community "script &models library". You may try to search there.

     

    But, I did not understand your question.

    If you are doing shell mesh modeling, and there is property associated to the part, it is in fact already sorted by thickness, that is by the property associated.

    If you extracted the midsurface of each part and meshed, there is no thickness associated. thickness will be associated as you assign a property. PSHELL  card if it is the OptiStruct model.

     

    I hope this is helpful

    Regards

  • Akshay Punde_21206
    Akshay Punde_21206 New Altair Community Member
    edited October 2021

    Actually I am meshing it in ANSYS and importing model is hypermesh so it is creating multiple components for same thickness like for example 

    1. 8 components for 10mm thickness

    2. 5 components for 12 mm thickness

    3. 24 components fro 15mm thicknes

    what I want is single component for each thickness

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited October 2021
    Akshay Punde_21206 said:

    Actually I am meshing it in ANSYS and importing model is hypermesh so it is creating multiple components for same thickness like for example 

    1. 8 components for 10mm thickness

    2. 5 components for 12 mm thickness

    3. 24 components fro 15mm thicknes

    what I want is single component for each thickness

    For 10mm thickness components, just make 1st component "Make current":

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    Then, Menu "Collectors" => Organize => Components

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    Select your 10mm thickness elements and press "move". Now you have all 10mm thickness elements within the 1st component.

     

     

  • Hypermesh User
    Hypermesh User Altair Community Member
    edited November 2021

    Hi Akshay,

                  

                     We can write Tcl script to automate such process.

     

    We can short the components by its name(If the thickness mentioned in the name).

    If not by property  also we can short by properties and automate the process.

     

    This was my understanding about your problem.If you want this solution.need to discuss more please do reply. 

     

    Regards,

     

    Manoj M

     

                   

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