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The resolution setting in Mecway is related to the resolution of the textures used for displaying the contour plots, not the nodal averaging, which is always on for CCX as Sergio said. The setting is just there to tweak performance because higher re…
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It should still show deformation after you release the load, so maybe it's not really being loaded all the way or somehow losing the plastic material data. Feel free to attach the liml file to the forum here.
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In version 5, PEEQ ("Equivalent plastic strain" in Mecway) comes through automatically if one of the plastic material types is set. For hand-made material definitions though, you'd have to do as Sergio said.
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Just a follow-up. Version 5 fixes these problems on Wine so it should be fully usable now: - NotImplementedException when mousing over a graph - Recognizing product keys - CCX (2.8p2 and probably others) works correctly
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Your method is basically right except for the problem you pointed out - since the angle only rotates about the U axis, it won't change the direction of the U axis itself. It's probably clearer to explicitly set the U axis as components (1,1,0) to ge…
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To model localized crushing at the supports, you would need contact, which you can do by adding the CalculiX solver together with meshes of the cylinders. To model the changing position and direction of the supports as the deformed shape of the bea…
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That's a fantastic example Sergio. Thanks a lot for working it and posting it.
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The built in Netgen mesher is 32 bit. There's no hard upper limit on the number of nodes. The 1 million listed on the website is just what I've tested Mecway's internal solver with. CCX can probably solver larger models.
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It doesn't have automatic shape optimization, so you would need to do that iteratively. 3-4 part assemblies are perfectly OK. I don't have any examples that specific sorry but there are examples of assemblies and contact in the manual.
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Hello drssp. It doesn't currently have a materials database though this is a commonly requested feature so hopefully in a future version. For now, you would have to get material data from elsewhere, such as matweb.com . For large deformations, you …
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It's not available with the internal solver. You can do it using CalculiX by manually entering the cards for a material, including *CONDUCTIVITY which allows orthotropic temperature dependent conductivities. Your idea of scaling the model in the Z…
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Updated to version 5 beta 2: http://mecway.com/download/app/mecway50beta2.msi - Improved scaling on high resolution (high DPI) displays. - Components display in solution view doesn't show a color key - Automatic component colors aren't chosen to b…
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add it to the list for future versions.
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That's amazing news!
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That's no good. Could you please tell me the DPI settings of your monitors ( http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-dpi-scaling-level-displays-change-windows-10-a.html ) and if the problem depends on which monitor Mecway starts on, and which one it…
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Thanks for trying that. The main problem is D1 is too big. In this case it should be 3e-9 m^2/N (=1/(332MPa) ). I'll try to clarify what that means in the program and perhaps include 1/MPa because different people use different definitions for thei…
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Good point about consistency with scale/copy. I'm reluctant to change old features after the beta though. Please put new change requests in another thread so this one can be about the beta version. Yes, automatically remeshing areas with more error…
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Pa and J/m^3 are the same thing but I agree it would be clearer if the more intuitive units appeared. This can lead to complications where people who see it from different points of view have a different idea about what's the obvious way to write th…
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Good suggestion. Importing material data is something I'm already hoping to do for a future version.
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Thanks for the feedback Sergio and apadzak. For "Use the same directory as LIML file", i'll try to clarify that and the error message. Most people should leave it turned off. For angles, I hope to avoid having to enter numbers. You can zoom in and…
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Cheers prop_design. And thanks for your help on the gyroscopic forces.
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For anyone else reading this. It turned out to be a number format problem that happens with some localization settings in Windows. It's fixed in version 5. You can also work around it by changing the number format in Windows to use dots for decimal …
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Hello AndresLT. This is a recently discovered bug caused by Mecway incorrectly reading decimal separators for some culture settings. Please either: - Change your computer's number format to use decimal points or - Install the new version 5 beta fr…
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Yes, this is nice to see some integration even without an API! To answer your concerns: - Beam force diagrams - not currently - Beam releases - rotational DOF release is called "Flexible joint on beam". For translational DOF release, you can write …
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Could be. Can you please try solving the attached model only with CCX. It's a simple thermal analysis so it should produce different field variables - temperature and heat flux instead of displacement and stress. If it's still showing displacement a…
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This situation can be tricky. I usually delete them one by one - click an element, press delete, repeat. But in your case that might take a long time. It's likely that the elements are numbered in two groups of consecutive numbers. In that case, i…
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Thanks. Could you please open that same .frd file that you opened in CGX but using Mecway instead (File->Open, not Solve with CCX)? This check will tell me if it's a fault in the .frd reading code or something related to running the external solv…
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One way is to turn on "Show node and element numbers" and look for element numbers on the surfaces. See attachment for how it will appear. Alternatively, if the mesh is small enough, use Mesh tools -> Node/element list -> Elements tab and lo…
