Complicated Part Not Importing Properly and Can't Tetra-mesh

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

Hi there,

 

Created a fairly complicated part in Autodesk Inventor over the past couple of weeks.  It looks this way as a result of a topology optimization run in Optistruct a while back.
(attached is an image of the part, as taken in Inventor)

 

However, now that I have drawn the part in Inventor, I am trying to bring it back into Hyperworks to analyze the part.  However I cannot use the volume tetrameshing on this part.  The imported IGS file seems to have gaps where there shouldn't be, and there are red lines appearing on the model when I try to do the tetrameshing.

 

I should mention that I did do a lot of filleting of sharp edges prior to bringing the part into Hypermesh.

 

Any thoughts or suggestions? 

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