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Victor, please disregard comment on Item 3. I was comparing "apples" with "oranges" (using entirely different young modulus). Also disregard comment on Item 5. In CCX manual, "If any of the materials defined in the input deck is not a linear elasti…
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Victor, General: can we also add the Isometric View in the Tool Bar. I actually use that and the zoom fit the most? For the quick tests: Referencing to filename = beamcontact_try1 1. The element named sets are not carried to the solutions when u…
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mattone, can you upload the .step files? you can try using FreeCAD to "union" them together then import into Mecway for meshing.
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I feel that one bad thing about ribbons is taking up screen space where Victor is aware of this. Mecway has advance quite amazingly in just one year. I believe that Victor will continue to advance Mecway even further making it even better.
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Thanks! This will be very helpful.
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I didn't see them appear automatically from the test I did and posted on another topic "Linear Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Materials Comparison". I may need to call it out in the CCX input feature but dont know how yet. I'm currently trying nonli…
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Victor, would Mecway be able to read plastic strain outputs from CCX solver? Thanks!
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I've been wanting to use CCX for a while now because of its nonlinear capabilites but never could get through the learning curves. Now with the capabilities of using CCX and also being able to read the results from CCX without the need to go to CGX…
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I just checked the files again and that's exactly what happened. My applied pressure for some reason was off by 1x10^3. I caused my own confusions when overlooked simple things like that. Thanks
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It was to be consistent with the test I couldn't get the units to come out correctly that I also posted in the Version 4 Beta thread. I will be looking into CCX manual and correct them. Thanks for point them out and help on this.
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Victor, Thanks for your help!
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Victor, I uninstalled and reinstalled the software and it works fine as expected. Using the input units of (N, m) for CCX features work correct. See attachment for compare of Mecway using Linear Static with Elastic Material and CalculiX using Linea…
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I did another test. Since my both my deflection and stresses are off by 1x10^3, the unit input may be in (kN, m). So I updated my input and rerun. Just for reference: E=29e6psi, v=0.3, Fy=36ksi at 0.2% strain, Fu=58ksi at 20% strain. I was able t…
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.liml and .step files attached.
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Victor, I'm aware that Sergio asked this questions or similar on his Item 7. What should be the input units (lb, in) or (N,m) for the CCX input feature? I tried both. If I used (lb, in) same is what I'm using in my model, CCX stopped and said sol…
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Victor, I changed the text scale back from 125% to 100% and I can see the okay button. I was able to add the texts (see attached). Thanks for pointing this out.
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Victor, Can we have the option to relink the geometry file if we rename our folder or relocate the project files to another place for archive (see attachment that the path to the geometry file was lost after I renamed and move the project files). Th…
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Victor, per my email to you, I found my error trying to run CCX. I used an older version (2.7 build 002) from bConverged. I downloaded and installed the newest version (2.8 build 003) from bConverged and it run find now and recognized all of the …
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Victor, Can we have the attached picture (views) docked/expanded instead of going into the view tab each time for them? I know we have the triad at the bottom right that do the same thing. Thanks
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VITTAL_S_S, I also have used both Mecway and LISA. I agree with Segio comments. For $350, it's very well worth it compared to using other open source that the learning curves are steep. You can read other topics in this forum to see comments from o…
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Victor, would there be fictionless or compression only contact for element to element contact in the near future? Thanks
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Thanks Victor! Being able to select multiple geometry surfaces will be a big help for me.
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barrti, There's another paper called "A Comparison of All Hexagonal and All Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshes for Elastic and Elasto-plastic Analysis" by Steven E. Benzley, Ernest Perry, Karl Merkley, Brett Clark from Brigham Young University, Prov…
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The maximum element size that I specified for a coarse mesh was 6 to 8 times the thickness. And then I did a refinement at the max stress locations. If the stress changes about 5%, the previous mesh density is okay to use without further refinement.…
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Victor, can we have the option of selecting multiple faces/surfaces in the geometry. Currently we can select one face or surface at a time and apply loads, boundary conditions, etc. Being able to hold down control key and select all of them and appl…
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For shell elements, since the result plots already shown for all surfaces regardless if we choose results from upper or bottom surfaces on the outline tree. To me, I think grouping all of them to one von Mises or deflections and plot them as a whole…
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Jim_C, can you provide the file? Thanks
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Agreed. Do it one by one may be a little time consuming when there are many faces but either way can be done.
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I just read your other post on another topic that you said you added your comments on this topic for creating the shell/surface model by creating linked surfaces to delete end surfaces for the shell/surface model. My attached model are already shel…
