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• Thanks for the information Victor. The article say that it should be no more than 0.1 the size of planar shape, I'm definetly out of the scope.

  in Comparison between 3D Beam and Laminate Plate Comment by eric_c June 2015
• Sorry I mean comparing convergence between hex20 and linear. Yes, with the plate it is diverging, unfortunately. Thanks for the force distribution advice, much better.

  in Comparison between 3D Beam and Laminate Plate Comment by eric_c June 2015
• VMH, Thanks for pointing out this. I was not refining enough with linear. I've tried quadratic on my side and I realize that much less refinement was necessary to reach the converging result. Curiously the hand formula for sandwich beam gave me a s…

  in Comparison between 3D Beam and Laminate Plate Comment by eric_c June 2015
• Thanks ! Indeed I'm working on a telescope building. I was comparing with result of this model (end of page) http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1100_trusstubes.htm He compare result with a formula and FEM model. In MecWay I got the same result if I'm…

  in Beam / Truss usage Comment by eric_c June 2015
• Hello VMH, Thanks for the video, that is great, there is a lot of usefull information in it.

  in mesh failure Comment by eric_c June 2015