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That would be true for mirror symmetry, but static cyclic symmetry requires displacement (in cylindrical coordinates) to be equal on both sides, but not necessarily zero. Here, you can see the opposite side has the same circumferential displacement …
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I can't see anything wrong with the cyclic symmetry definition in your original model, Hooshsim. According to the CCX manual, ELSET is only used for generating the output segments so I think it's harmless to omit. Combining the 3 pairs of surfaces …
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If you're not worried about privacy, there are web services where you can convert MPEG generated by Mecway's animation button -> Save video to file to GIF. Just Google "mpeg to gif". But beware that some of these sites publish the content people …
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There's a couple of dozen but I doubt you actually need all of them for only PARDISO. Here's a sort of explanation but I still can't quite work it out more accurately than "everything in redist/intel64_win/mkl": https://software.intel.com/en-us/art…
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Not that I know of, sorry. It's a feature I hope to include in a future version.
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Currently, the only way is to adjust the range of the color key scale. If you exclude the highest magnitude ones, it lengthens all the others. Use the sliders next to it or select the magnitude from the outline tree then right click a selection and …
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A couple of things I've recently found: Although the minimum set of dlls JohnM listed are OK, they're the default ones for the lowest spec CPUs. If you include all the other dlls from the MKL redist folder too, it automatically loads ones that are …
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Hello Daniel 3D shells are always plane stress and the plane strain option is disabled. 2D continuum elements are plane stress by default and you can change it to plane strain by turning that option on. It should be enabled if the Shell/membrane m…
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File -> Import generally doesn't import solutions. A workaround is to use File -> Open to open the .frd file then Import to import the model again. You might also tell Mecway that your program is CCX (Tools -> Options -> CalculiX) so it…
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I think that's right. The entire stress state should be uniform throughout, including the principal directions.
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You won't be able to simulate the failure itself in Mecway, which I guess is what those wave speeds are for? If the material has some load rate dependence, I think you can simply set the properties to what they would be for the load rate you're usi…
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Thanks for suggesting that again. I'm not sure about it at the moment but it's on my list to sort out.
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Hi Dave 1. It turns out the large displacement is actually a rotation because of the unconstrained rotation you identified. But the point displacement constraints are going to cause point reaction loads too which I guess isn't what you want. I'm no…
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The Displacement and Node rotation constraints do that. Each one constrains a single DOF. Choose one of the predefined orientations (X, Y, Z) to populate the top row of input fields and they will behave like traditional global DOF constraints.
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I can't promise but that is a feature that people have asked for before and I realize it would be valuable.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I probably won't do that soon because of other priorities. However, version 13 will probably have an API which you would be able to use to export data in any custom format.
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If you use Gmsh on a STEP file, then usually the same-shape surfaces end up with the same mesh so you can merge them together. You can download Gmsh from http://gmsh.info/ and then connect Mecway to it and use it through Meshing parameters -> Gm…
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In these models, the parts have compatible meshes and share nodes so there's no need for bonded contacts. If you use STEP files and automesh them, that won't usually be possible (though with Gmsh you usually can). If the different parts are the same…
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That's an odd omission. I'll get Mecway to generate the data for the other segments if it's safe. I'm wondering if perhaps there's a reason CCX doesn't do it.
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Here's some steps to get started. From this, you can solve it and get some kind of solution but it doesn't yet have: * Holding forces * Plastic material. See manual 14.1 Custom model definition for an example. * Friction. Set it in the contac…
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Yes, that's more tricky. I would constrain the stripper with a weak spring to oppose the holding force and ramp up the holding force so that the full 50 kN is not applied until after the contact closes.
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The PipeClip.liml example in the manual and Samples folder might be a place to start. Add plastic material and more parts. The common features with deep drawing are contact and time dependent prescribed displacement. Beware though that people seem …
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OK. I'll add that.
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You might be right about configurations. I've made a note about that. It needs a (un)suppress in all configurations option too. For the new install, are you sure all the display settings were the same?: Node/face/element selection mode and all opti…
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The internal solver has always used Intel MKL's Pardiso and I've never heard any complaints of it not working on AMD CPUs. Though it might be slower.
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Graphics is mostly limited by the CPU or memory and I don't think there's much that better hardware can do about that. You can turn off some of the display options and avoid being in Select nodes mode since that spends time searching for nodes to hi…
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Here's some memory use data for solids: Internal solver: https://mecway.com/forum/discussion/comment/1139/#Comment_689 CCX: https://mecway.com/forum/discussion/comment/3166/#Comment_3141 As for recreating components, I don't think there's a short…
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disla - that's amazing! badbunny - You might have had some nodes selected using Merge the first time. Most of the meshing tools act only on selected items if there are any or the whole model if nothing is selected. I did the merge with 0 tolerance…
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It occurred to me there's a clumsy workaround for 2D/axi: 1) Extrude the whole mesh to a solid with 1 subdivision. 2) Select the edge faces of that using Edge detecting selection. If there are a lot of sharp corners that block it, select the two 2D…
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There's no automatic edge-only selection. But you can drag a rectangle or circle to select a group of edges. Do multiple selection and inversion of selection by holding CTRL while selecting.
