Connection and Meshing Surfaces

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Dear Users,

 

I have a model of an airplane fuselage made up of several Surfaces. In addition, I have added more ribs in the form of surfaces under new components. 2D shell elements are to be selected as elements. I would like to assign different thicknesses to the individual ribs and the hull itself. That's no problem so far.

My problem is creating the mesh. I don't understand how I can make it clear to the mesh that all components are connected and that the mesh on the contact surfaces is matched. What do I have to do?

 

Thank you for your support!

 

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  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited July 2018

    Your model?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2018

    @MaxWeber

     

    keep connectivity and select all surfaces?

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>mesh.PNG

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2018

    This a picture of an easy model in which i'm trying do get a connection between the four surfaces and the 'main' surface. But the yellow colored lines have a red color. I thougt that they have to be green. Isn't that a problem?

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>1.JPG

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited July 2018

    These lines should be yellow.

    Use 'Geom' => 'surface edit' => trim with surf

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2018

    Thanks for your help!

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