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No problem and yes, the edges are called faces too. Mecway doesn't have a separate concept of an edge.
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It sounds like you selected elements instead of faces. Ensure Edit -> Select faces is turned on first. Creating the new component may have changed it to Select elements mode.
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Having the model too is useful in case of saving it over the original file. Is the problem that it makes it slower to get to the solution when you open it? It's strange that Mecway tries to write the results before it's finished. I don't know how t…
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That's a good point prop_design. Though something that got me suspicious - the benchmarks are all on circuit simulation problems. It's especially suspect considering the huge difference between the circuit 1 and circuit 2 graphs. With that much vari…
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Thanks very much JohnM and prop_design for revealing this! This is amazing news and I'll include it with the next version of Mecway if the licenses permit, or at least try to ease the installation if they don't.
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Mine says 2.9 GB (out of 16 GB) with not much else open. I wouldn't make any decisions based on these numbers though because how memory gets used is so complicated.
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Yes, I saw the memory use remain high after doing a File -> New, which would be about the same as opening a small file. But high memory use is perfectly OK as long as it doesn't cause any problems. I left it in that high-memory, no-model state a…
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Sergio - the solve command line parameter doesn't save the solution by default which I realize is kind of strange, but if you set Write solution to liml file in Analysis settings -> Output files, then it will. That also allows you to keep the mod…
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This is tricky to reproduce. I tried reloading the same large file repeatedly and the physical memory use reported by task manager for Mecway was: 33 MB no file 2325 MB opened once 3695 MB opened twice 3460 MB ... 4731 MB 3801 MB 3020 MB 2997 MB Ne…
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You can now use the mouse wheel or +/-/arrow keys to zoom and pan while simultaneously using the tape measure.
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I can't promise about multi-select because it's a bit tricky, though I know it would be very useful.
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Hopefully soon. At least for the mesh, but probably not the STEP file.
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Good suggestion. I'll try to get that in. For now, the longer way is to click the component name to select all its elements (or ctrl-A), then with the field variable selected, right click an element and choose Fit contour plot max/min to selection.
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Thanks both of you for the suggestion about some kind of reusable meshing parameters. There's already slightly smoother material library under Labs -> Import from library. It enables buttons for Assign material from library and Save to library.
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The one at http://www.dhondt.de/ under "download by the following files ." is multithreaded. But beware that it still has the old bugs with eigenvalue problems and a large number of threads which has been attributed to SPOOLES.
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Yes, that should be coming in version 13.
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Oh. Yes, good idea. I'll do that for the next version.
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I think there are two types of problem in this file: 1) 6 badly shaped elements. You can see these if you set offset to 0 and solve. 2) The other 72-6=66 well shaped elements that only cause errors when the offset is specified. I don't understand …
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Version 12 is now on the download page and there have been no changes since the first post in this thread. Extra thanks to Germán Bresciano who has written and maintained up to date Spanish language manual and tutorials documents available in the l…
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Instead of load cases, Mecway has Configurations which are the tabs near the top of the window. Each configuration can have different: * suppressed states for Loads & Constraints, Initial conditions, CCX items, and Tables * solution but …
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CCX has the capability of modelling radiation between surfaces. Last I checked, it was a bit complicated to set up by hand so it's something I want to add to the UI eventually. It could be that you have to copy the generate *RADIATE keyword block an…
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Though I don't know about CCX specifically, this is how I expect that error occurs. It would calculate the normal vector of the shell's surface at each node by doing the cross product of two vectors tangent to the plane of the shell, such as those p…
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If you use Mecway 12, there's a button on the solver window to select the element with the error. That shows a triangle element with an extreme aspect ratio making it look like a line, which wouldn't usually be able to solve. With version 11, use E…
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Good point. Yes, I'll add that.
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About the convergence graph. The data is taken directly from the .cvg file. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how to use it since CCX has very complicated convergence criteria but I expect that for each time step (increment), the displacement corre…
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Thanks for testing things Sergio. Both kinds of refinement work OK for me using the default meshing parameters. A couple of ways it doesn't work: * If you specify a minimum element size in meshing parameters which conflicts with the refinement, t…
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Power density in the solution is currently only available for solid and shell elements. You should be able to extrude the line mesh into a single element wide strip of narrow shells.
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Great work Anthony. The forum somehow breaks Youtube links but maybe this will work PROP_DESIGN Screencasts: https://youtube.com/channel/UCj7CdqPJOXVV56J1m8zGbPw Mecway's channel also has howto videos from various people collected together. Mec…
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It has that but called r/min.
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Good point. I don't see why not.
