Foolproof method to extract component thickness

Akshay Manthekar

Hi All,

I want to know if there is any robust/foolproof method to extract the midsurface of components? Currently, I am using following method to extract midsurface:

set maxpoint [hm_entitymaxid points]; set surfthickval [hm_getsurfacethicknessvalues points $maxpoint]; set thicknessbefore [lindex [lindex $surfthickval 0] 1];

I have observed that for some components this code has identified wrong thickness value (I am not sure what was the reason) and for others it was correct.

Can you guys tell me which method/code you use to calculate component thickness?

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!!

Jason_Craanen

Hello,

The best method is to use the midsurface tool. If you use it in combination with batchmesher or the map thickness tool, the thickness and property is automatically created and assigned.

Midsurface

https://2022.help.altair.com/2022.1/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/chapter_heads/midsurface_r.htm

Map Thickness

https://2022.help.altair.com/2022.1/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/pre_processing/geometry/midsurface_thickness_apply_t.htm?zoom_highlight=map+thickness

Batch meshing

https://2022.help.altair.com/2022.1/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/pre_processing/meshing/batchmesh_unity_t.htm#batchmesh_unity_t

Model Build and Assembly work flow

https://2022.help.altair.com/2022.1/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/pre_processing/model_build_and_assembly/model_build_assembly_r.htm

Thanks

Jason

Akshay Manthekar

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply.

Actually it would be more helpful for me if you could share the code for thickness extraction from hypermesh or give me some hint about the same.