AcuSolve meshing problems

Altair Forum User

Hi, 

I'm working with Acusolve and while i'm generating the mesh, the error below appears: 

 

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Can anyone help me?? 

 

Thank you very much

 

Regards

acupro

What is the source of the CAD - original software used to create the geometry, and the format exported from the CAD software and imported to AcuConsole?  The initial warning mentions 'zero length edge'.  Please share the CAD model if you are able - native geometry model plus the model imported to AcuConsole - and maybe even the AcuConsole database (.acs file) to check mesh settings.

Altair Forum User

The source is 'Solidworks' with the file in parasolid(.x_t).  For the mesh options i used only an 'Absolute' value. 

 

Here the files. Thanks for your help

 

 

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acupro

The issues I am seeing are in the locations where the tubes 'kink' and the surface edges meet together with essentially zero angle and zero space between the surface edges.  With the current geometry, you'll probably need to create the mesh in HyperMesh, and toggle those edges so they're not meshed explicitly.  Otherwise, if you can modify the geometry such that those surface edges don't come together like that, then AcuConsole may work better.
If you right-click 'Model' and select 'Query', add a row under the 'Point' tab and input the coordinates.  You may need to increase the point size and toggle visibility of things to determine where the point is - but this can help you locate problem areas.  You can also view surfaces/volumes in Solid & Outline mode so you can see where the surface edges are.