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In the versions were the TIE was highlighted with small black balls, was easier to see if the element surfaces were hiden, and the mesh color was adjusted to cyan (same color as undeformed mesh by default). With this configuration I found easier to …
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Forget about videos :-) I was thinking in reformat and make a series of articles on my site/blog.
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I'm using Alibre Atom at home for creating models, have bought a licence a year ago (about u$d 149). Some operations must be done in FreeCAD (split surfaces and boolean), but still is the best option for starters, freelancers or hobbyist in my humil…
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Hi Victor, is there a way to add an option to the importing of UNVs meshes from Salome to convert the groups of elements in components? Related to this, a new option in the contextual menu of the Groups branch of the model tree to convert all groups…
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You could drag the nodes of some failed elements to make it acceptables directly in Mecway (or even delete the elements), but is easier to remesh in Salome with different parameters.
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@traemand, it´s not possible to do multiple selection in the model tree. What you could do is adjust the default options of mesh in the Tools/Option/Defaults windows to a more suitable values for most of your parts, and then only edit those that wer…
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@traemand, it´s not possible to do multiple selection in the model tree. What you could do is adjust the default options of mesh in the Tools/Option/Defaults windows to a more suitable values for most of your parts, and then only edit those that wer…
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@Lorenzo, in Mecway, first select the group in the model tree, the elements become selected in the model view. Now press the secondary button of the mouse over the selected elements in the model view, to bring up the contextual menu with the option …
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@Lorenzo, attached a tutorial for creating conformal meshes in Salome and exporting to Mecway https://we.tl/t-v0FNRrOzLt
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Moving in the model tree, using the scrool bar for locating components or bc will make you very annoyed. For that kind of models the possibility of grouping components (the same as today for boundary conditions) would help a lot. And for assigning m…
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And use simmetry, at least for building the meshes.
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The model look interesting, but workng with such cuantity of components will be a nighmare in Mecway. Remove all non structural components, and surely you will have to make the meshes very carefully (by hand each one) to have something usfull. The a…
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Hi, during the day will try to prepare a tutorial for meshing the assembly with coincident nodes in Salome and export to Mecway.
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I have checked, and for getting a coincident mesh with separated/selectionable parts, must be done outside Mecway with Gmsh or Salome. You could do inside Mecway, but all the elements will be assigned to one component without easy way to separate or…
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2) You have such "explode geometry into subgeometries" in Salome. You can even prepare shell models there, leaving one side of sheet metal parts, and then export as step to mesh and work in Mecway. 3) Now I don't remember, but look for the specific …
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The edge selection would be very usefull. What you can do in these cases is select the nodes by hand (with a rectangular or circular selection) and then change the selection mode to surfaces to catch all at once.
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Hi @traemand, welcome to the forum. About exporting assemblies to Mecway, what I do normaly 1) If they are few parts, in the CAD I hide all and leave only one part of the assembly, and then export as stp with the option to only export visible parts…
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My firs advice would be simplify carefully your CAD models and then also try to simplify also the BC at the begining.
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Would be nice that the CCX Solver windows shows also the .sta file content for the no linear analysis, and all these info be stored inside the model file, result branch. So if is clicked again the same window could be reloaded
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There is no way to re-open the solver info, would be nice to be stored as a text in the solution branch.
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Thanks for this new release. The mw.new_component() is ver usefull, have modified my script to create spiders so they fall in a new component without user interaction. Now I will try to make a new scrip to convert all the groups of elements (from Sa…
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I have made some test in the past, but if I understood well, the new version of Mecway break, ignore or change the different couplings in the attached file. Maybe should be redone using custom ccx cards directly. https://we.tl/t-flrVw7QWIb
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Guess that insannely high stiffness transfromt to a rigid element, like the RBE2. The best to me is that is visible in the postprocesing :-)
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Great! You should post in the Scripts post, is very usefull.
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It doesn´t exists "lines" in Mecway, you must create first nodes by coordinates (there you must put the "minus one" thing), then line elements using those nodes. About your spider problem, what I will try to do is 1) Create an empty component call…
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Looks like in your case the best is using the last node of the initial selection as reference. Imagine that you have a rectangular or circular area with al the nodes, and the reference is in the middle, so you can actually select all with some of th…
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Hi, very interesting application. I have made a script to change the coordinates of the selected nodes to a specific one. As I don´t want to write by hand, and I know that this position is defined by a present node, what I do is first, select the re…
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Have used very little, but they are not complex to understand if you open with a text editor. I will make a new approach to OpenFoam.
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There are some very well explained tutorials in Youtube on how to prepare the models for OpenFoam in Mecway. They export the initial model as STL and then the mesh is created with OpenFoam with some available to download windows scripts.
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@disla, is a great modeling trick. The circular beam element in CCX is new? Because as far as I remember all my CCX beams were expanded to hexa elements, not this octagonal prisms. I have checked, and for solid circular section, the expansion is to …
