How to peform FEA on Triangular Mesh derived from an Implicit model?

Ripfumelo
Ripfumelo Altair Community Member
edited January 2 in Community Q&A

Here i watched a video from "Altair How to" youtube challenge, it says  you can combine a lattice from Implicit modeling and a "B-rep" which creates a triangular mesh then do structural analysis, i can't figure how you apply loads and supports of the mesh, can anyone explain more on this? I've posted the link below

https://youtu.be/QQzOI4hw2kU?si=7nkvx7sjQKoPLUM0&t=256

 

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  • droccaforte
    droccaforte
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2

     

    To run analysis on triangular mesh parts you need to choose the SimSolid solver.  That is under File/Preferences/Inspire/RunOptions.

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    To control the faces generated during the conversion to triangle mesh you can adjust the break angle under File/Preferences/Inspire/Modeling Space /Discrete Modeling.

     

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    You can see in this example the break angle was reduced to avoid merging the fillets and flat faces.

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  • Ripfumelo
    Ripfumelo Altair Community Member
    edited January 2

    Thank you very much for your help @David Roccaforte, i learned some advanced stuff in a short space of time.