Morphing a line body

Vassilis
Vassilis New Altair Community Member
edited January 2021 in Community Q&A

Hi everybody!

I have recently started using HyperMesh. The reason for that is the perfect morphing tools that HM provides.

Specifically what I want to achieve is to morph a line body that I have imported. The way of doing things as I found out is the following:

import the line body, mesh with line elements, declare handles by selecting specific nodes, morph accordingly.

All I'm left with is a so-called shape, which is morphed the way I wanted it and my original geometry. I can export that as a model (in .cdb format for Ansys) which is going to contain just nodes.

How can I the "deformed"/morphed shape? As in export back the line body in .iges format?

 

Thanks a lot!

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  • Viraj Kulkarni_21218
    Viraj Kulkarni_21218
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2021

    When you export the mesh you can assign the element type. ET type(sensor) and export the cdb file.

    You will have element and nodes data in cdb which you can import in Ansys.

    This is the easiest way.

     

    There are ways where you can go to Tools-->HyperMorph-->morph-->morph surfaces and see if you get updated surfaces for cad. OR go to Geom-->Surfaces-->FE to surf and then create surfs from elements. But this is tricky and might become complex according to the geometry.

     

    As i mentioned above, seems you have already morphed. All you need is assign et type for element and you are all set to export cdb.

  • Vassilis
    Vassilis New Altair Community Member
    edited January 2021

    Thanks a lot for your quick answer!

    In order to morph i must have meshed in the first place, right? There is no such thing as morphing the geometry itself?

    Besides that, I will assign elements and export the .cdb file, import that to ansys and probably from there on I can get an .stl file and go reverse?

     

    Best regards.

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