Documentation or trial license?

henry10210 · August 2025

Hi, looking into Mecway after running out of memory (on a 32 GB PC) in my PrePoMax static analysis (of what I was able to mesh with quad dominated Shell section mesh). The problem is that I don't know how to mesh a collection of C-channel shells (but large and constrained with the TIE constraints between the C-channels; 32 ft in length) with sufficiently large node distance to keep the number of nodes reasonable. Would like to try analyzing my design with Mecway. Would need ~1 month to complete evaluation since I can't work on this full time (MacOS support would help with this but I won't digress), so would be great if I can get a temporary trial license please (I really don't think I can get the node count below what's allowed by the free version).

Come to think of it, I guess if Mecway can just mesh my design with coarser quad dominated mesh to keep the number of nodes down, and support TIE constraint between C-channels, THAT feature alone is just worth for me to outright buy it right now (since PrePoMax is not working out for me).

Thanks for reading and your advice!

DaveStupple · August 2025

Hello Henry, if I understand the situation correctly, you can use the trial version with more than a thousand nodes but you can't save the model. Give it a try with some trivial example. If it works, you'll just have to not reboot your PC for a while and hope for no crashes.

Sergio · August 2025

Did you try to replace the c channes by beams? About meshing the C channesl, you can just mesh the C shape with very few line elements, and then extrude (to create quads) along the lenght of the channel choosing the number of elements that you want/need on the lenght, a very good way to manage the element/node count. After that you can use TIE with shells in both solvers, internal and CCX.

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