OSSMOOTH Export of Composite Topology

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

Hi Everyone,

 

I am struggling right now with something that I am certain I have done before, though it has been a while.

I have successfully completed a FreeSize and a Size Optimization where I now received a Shuffle.fem data file. (OUTPUT -> SZTOSH)

Now I would like to take the topology of this Composite Shuffle FEM deck and Export it. Of course, the Composite optimization is based on a few surfaces, but I Need to have the topology of the element thicknesses. It is going to be a rough landscape, but this is intended. Now, does anyone of you know how to Export my Composite FEM model INCLUDING ist optimized thicknesses?

I have not found the right function in OSSMOOTH. I have the Shuffle.fem file, that was generated in the last Size optimization. Moreover, of course a .sh data was generated, which does not seem to fit to the Shuffle.fem data. (Saying the .sh file has invalid element Count)

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Best Regards,

Lennart

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2018

    HI @Turbokraken

     

    Do you want to export the ply data and use it CAD or do you want to perform smoothing first and export?

     

    If you are interested in smoothing, better carry the smoothing after freesize.

     

     

    If you just want to export to the ply data, you can export to CATIA or FIbersim where all ply data will be exported. 

     

    You can try Ply Geometry smoothing which is available in Aerospace profile where you can export the ply shape as CAD data

     

     

     

  • Turbokraken
    Turbokraken Altair Community Member
    edited October 2018

    What I am interested in is of course the shape of each ply, but most importantly the ply thickness. The thickness should be displayed as it is, not just as the 2D shape but as 3D shape, probably as .STL.
    Is this possible?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2018

    I have a script which can export ply shapes to step format. But thickness is not a part of it. 

     

    I will check i there is a way to do that. 

     

    But, you can export all ply data to CATIA or FiberSim formats through HyperMesh.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2018

    Hi,

     

    OSSmooth should write ply thickness info along with ply shape. 

     

    Please try that. 

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>plythickness.png

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>POSSmooth.png

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