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Error in importing to flex body

User: "Kiran Govind"
Altair Community Member
Updated by Kiran Govind

Dear Friends,

I am doing simulation of MBD. Till now I was doing Rigid body dynamics but now I have started with small mechanisms with flexible body so after meshing the body when I tried to upload there was an error persisting. So when I queried in the MV forum they directed here. I am attaching the error please help me out with this issue.

 

" *** See next message about line 253 from file:
C:/Users/kiran/Downloads/four-bar-mechanism-11.snapshot.11/Connecting rod FEM_prp.fem
"CTRIA3 20 0 110 39 109"

This line was interpreted as:
253:CTRIA3, 20, 0, 110, 39, 109"

 

Thank you

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    User: "RobHoglund"
    Altair Employee
    Accepted Answer
    Updated by RobHoglund

    Hello Kiran,

    The error from OptiStruct on the TRIA element occurs because there's no property assigned to the element.  Import this flexible body .fem in HyperMesh, make sure that the components with those elements in them have material properties assigned to them and export the .fem model again.

    To do this, create a material, create a PSHELL property and link to that material, and then go to the component containing the tria elements, and link to the property.  The elements should have something other than 0 in the third field, it should be the property ID.

    Thanks,

    Rob