How to clean zero length beam element

ve3D
ve3D Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello,

After importing the 1D beam element model into Ansys, I found some zero length beam elements which is created by the same node and that I would not like to create. I would like to know how to clean these elements in hypermesh? I know that Hypermesh has tools to clean very small length curves but these curves are attached to surface elements (Geom => edge edit / autocleanup). But in my model there are only 1D elements (only beam, column and no surface), so these tools do not work.

Thank you for your help

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  • Simon Križnik
    Simon Križnik Altair Community Member
    edited April 2020

    Hi,

     

    go to check elements panel (F10)>1D and specify 'length' as 0 or some very small number and 'save failed'. Open delete panel (F2), click 'elems' to access extended entity selection, then 'retrieve' and finally 'delete entity'.

  • ve3D
    ve3D Altair Community Member
    edited April 2020 
     Thank you very much, I have tried this method several times without success.  I finally found that after clicking on retrieve and before reverse,  don't forget to click on 'mask'. Otherwise it doesn't work

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