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Problem in using solid map

User: "Altair Forum User"
Altair Employee
Updated by Altair Forum User

In Fig. 1, it is a screenshot of a 3D solid that I plan to mesh, I have a very thin slice at the top (please see circled region in Fig. 2). 

 

1. I meshed the top surface as shown in Fig. 3.

2. I plan to use solidmap to mesh the top slice first, and then mesh the rest of the 3D solid. I select all the surface elements as my source elements, I select the bottom of the top slice as my destination surface. I select one side surface as my 'along geom' (as shown in Fig. 4)
3. After I click mesh, an error message shows up 'Term-face-edge has a srong side-face edge idx' and several faces become white as shown in Fig. 5.

 

Would you please tell me what is the reason for this? By the way, I first have a rectangular cross section and then I cut the four corners to make it like this.

 

Thank you very much for your help.

 

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Fig. 1

 

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Fig. 2

 

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Fig. 3

 

Fig. 4

 

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Fig. 5

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    User: "tinh"
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    Updated by tinh

    Hi 

    try selecting all slant surfs as 'along'

    User: "Altair Forum User"
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    Updated by Altair Forum User

    Hi 

    try selecting all slant surfs as 'along'

    Hello, Tinh,

     

    Thank you for your suggestions. I tried to select all the side surfaces as the 'along', but I got the following error:

    image.png.d614c77ceefb1c3d7cdf2427bbb5000f.png

     

    The model looks like the following Fig.1. And at the four chopped corners, I have three surfaces there rather than one (Pls see Fig. 2). may I ask if you got any comments on this?

    Thank you.

    image.png.b3a1dd9c7895f1fbd88711d6d59b170c.png

    Fig. 1

     

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.thumb.png.2194db1e4100250c147ae6e6938e4f41.png

    Fig. 2

    User: "Altair Forum User"
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    Updated by Altair Forum User

    Another interesting thing is if I jus

    Hello, Tinh,

     

    Thank you for your suggestions. I tried to select all the side surfaces as the 'along', but I got the following error:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.png.d614c77ceefb1c3d7cdf2427bbb5000f.png

     

    The model looks like the following Fig.1. And at the four chopped corners, I have three surfaces there rather than one (Pls see Fig. 2). may I ask if you got any comments on this?

    Thank you.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.png.b3a1dd9c7895f1fbd88711d6d59b170c.png

    Fig. 1

     

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.thumb.png.2194db1e4100250c147ae6e6938e4f41.png

    Fig. 2

    Another interesting thing is if I just use the setup I showed above for the 'solid map', I set 2 elements in the height direction, but I finally get the following: 

    The elements near this region only have half of the height mapped while other parts are mapped from the source to destination with all height, but just 1 element rather than 2 as I wanted.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.thumb.png.1bb652692ca995c60ac48479d5b47a69.png

     

    If I select a different chopped region to do the solid map, I got the error saying 'Side face 1: not enough connections to dest face loop'.

    Does this mean there is some strange part in my geometry?

     

    Thank you very much for your help.

     

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.thumb.png.7d475c8dcf1d7ea429458c2e74bff23b.png

     

    image.png.b7ff6e52eb883abdda9ab1754c291466.png

    User: "tinh"
    Altair Community Member
    Updated by tinh

    yes, mapping along surfs may not be successful.

    in your case I think you can simple drag elems to form 3d (panel 3d>drag>drag elems)