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• Here is the complete text in English for you to copy and post. I have polished the grammar to make it sound professional for the Mecway engineering community. Subject: Difficulty meshing large Alibre model and questions about modeling lifting lugs …

  in Step-by-step help needed: Bolt Pre-tension on split vs. solid geometry (CalculiX) Comment by marcosprojetos April 7
• Hello everyone, I'm facing some challenges meshing a large skid model imported from Alibre Design into Mecway. The mesher fails to generate a mesh unless I use a very coarse element size (around 30mm). However, my model has structural beams with 8…

  in Step-by-step help needed: Bolt Pre-tension on split vs. solid geometry (CalculiX) Comment by marcosprojetos April 7
• Sérgio, thank you for the clarification on the contact types! Since I'm still learning the workflow, would you happen to have a very simple Mecway sample file (.liml) with a single bolt and two plates already set up? I would like to open it and st…

  in Step-by-step help needed: Bolt Pre-tension on split vs. solid geometry (CalculiX) Comment by marcosprojetos March 27
• Thanks for the help, Victor! I'll try again following your steps. I recently bought Alibre Design and I'm really enjoying the native integration with Mecway; the geometry comes in very clean without needing STEP files. As I'm new to FEA, I'm still s…

  in Step-by-step help needed: Bolt Pre-tension on split vs. solid geometry (CalculiX) Comment by marcosprojetos March 27