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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.
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Here it is. I changed the last bonded contact's value and remeshed the parts with Fit midside nodes to geometry on all of them.
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This solution uses bonded contact instead of contact so it's not really the same problem. Lateral loads on the bolts will be distributed around the entire circumference of the hole instead of only on the side that the bolt presses against. So the st…
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Yea, ANSYS works out the contact stiffness automatically but here you have to pick a value. There's also a lot of trouble with CCX if a part is only supported by contact (not bonded contact). I'd guess that most of the support emails I get are about…
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That's intentional. An example of a use is line3 elements revolved to form a quad8 cylinder. Or a tri3 shell is easier to create manually than tri6 and can be converted later.
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It turns out that it fails if you open the file as millimeters but works OK as meters! That's pretty surprising. It seems like Netgen prefers bigger coordinate values (60 mm is sent to Netgen as 0.06). Here's the mesh I made anyway - you'll have to…
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No, sorry. You would have to build one from translational springs. Either make a moment arm with another beam element or, perhaps more elegantly, use a constraint equation to couple the rotational DOF of the beam element to the translational DOF of …
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I didn't have a problem meshing that with the default settings. Though with quadratic elements, turning off Fit midside nodes to geometry prevents some badly shaped elements appearing.
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The lines following *MATERIAL,NAME=YourMaterialName
