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Thickness plot legend Hypermesh 2023.1

Hypermesh 2023.1_Optistruct

In Hypermesh 2023.1 why does it sometimes show the thickness plot for a composite part with max/min elements (left pic) and some other times without that info (right pic) although there's no change in the request?

I even tried to see if there's any option to turn on max/min elements by right clicking on the legend but no use.

Can some one please help, to show max/min elements in thickness plot.

Thank you!

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Michael Herve

Hello,

it seems it is related to the definition of the property. Composites , depending on the solver, can be either zone based (the historical approach, less flexible, not recommended for complex stacking methods), or the ply based approach (state of the art method for sctacking definition).

In the screenshot below, left hand side is a zone based modeling (Nastran) and right hand side is ply based (PCOMPP in OptiStruct).

It seems Hypemesh does not return information on min/max element when using zone based modeling

Best Regards,

Michael

Hypermesh 2023.1_Optistruct

Hello,

it seems it is related to the definition of the property. Composites , depending on the solver, can be either zone based (the historical approach, less flexible, not recommended for complex stacking methods), or the ply based approach (state of the art method for sctacking definition).

In the screenshot below, left hand side is a zone based modeling (Nastran) and right hand side is ply based (PCOMPP in OptiStruct).

It seems Hypemesh does not return information on min/max element when using zone based modeling

Best Regards,

Michael

Thank you for your reply!

Both screenshots are from PCOMPP but sometimes it displays the max/min element and not always. Not sure why the inconsistency. I have been extracting the images using scripting.

Hypermesh 2023.1_Optistruct

Thank you for your reply!

Both screenshots are from PCOMPP but sometimes it displays the max/min element and not always. Not sure why the inconsistency. I have been extracting the images using scripting.