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To select nodes less than 10 degrees from the X-axis in the +X+Y quadrant, you could use the formula atan(y/x) - pi/180 * 10 < 0 Don't type the "< 0".
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Not in v4. Automatically selecting adjacent faces within an angle tolerance is something that's been on my list for a while though. In case you mean selecting nodes whose coordinates are within some range of angles in the global coordinate system, …
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Also there may have been an error with the tapered pipe element. It was internally converted to a straight pipe with the same average diameter, though I think it should have had the same average cross-sectional area instead.
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It's like prop_design said. This was a relatively low value feature. It tended to mislead people who expected it to be practical for modelling actual pipe networks but it had big shortcomings like: It ignores the Bernoulli principle which might be …
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Hello JL82 There's no direct way. A distributed moment isn't a uniquely defined problem so you will have to make some judgement about what's the best way to distribute the forces. Here's an example done by laying beam elements (Mesh tools -> Cr…
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I'll see about adding all the stress components. There are some internal limitations that make it a bit difficult though. I don't understand the problem with the layer naming. Is it because the same names L1, etc will be used on different lay-ups s…
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Hello johan If you have two elements sharing the same set of nodes, then they should behave as you'd expect, with the combined stiffness of both of them. Perhaps they were actually using different nodes, so only the soft elements deformed, leaving …
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I'd say so, yes. Though it's the simpler "one-way" type of multiphysics, like thermal stress, so it might be doable with software that isn't advertised as multiphysics.
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Not easily, no. You can use the DC current flow analysis type to obtain the rate of heat generation in the material, and you can use thermal analysis to find the temperature increase that causes, but Mecway doesn't yet have a practical way of transf…
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This is discretization error because of the mesh coarseness. There's a big change in the temperature gradient between the surface and the interior which can't be captured accurately in a single element thickness. So refine the mesh to reduce the err…
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This is a tricky one and other people have run into it too. I'm not sure how to solve it. "Total force" might suggest other meanings like the sum of all forces on the model so I'm not sure there. Perhaps it just comes down to doing a sanity check on…
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It's intended to be used starting with a .liml file, with .inp just as an interface to CCX. If you start with a .inp file, some features like *PLASTIC won't be read in and you would need to reconstruct them, like by adding them to CCX -> Custom m…
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What features of the shear stress plot concern you? It does seem to have the same general shape as the RAC-RAC curve in the pdf but the stress is scaled by some constant. I couldn't get the 70MPa you did and all my stresses were less than 0.1Mpa wit…
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Hi Jacinto Here's an example showing just a linear analysis of the shear stress at the interface. I rotated the model so that the XY stress component is aligned with the interface and you can read it off directly. I also rotated the X and Y displac…
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Hello Jacinto I'm not sure if you're trying to model the bond strength itself as the pdf say, or the rest of the material. If the rest of the material, then the problem is that the two parts are only connected together at the corners. To see this, …
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I don't see any major problems with that approach. The heat flux right on the boundary may have more error than with a single mesh, so you might end up needing two layers of elements for the film. From a quick test I did, that didn't seem to be an i…
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I've had a go with Wine on 32 bit Ubuntu and found this: - Without installing .Net 2.0 as whitequark suggested, the toolbars are partly hidden and most things don't work. So that's important. I used SP2 though. Not sure if that's worse than SP1. -…
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Probably not without more requests because it's a more difficult job than calling the mesher.
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You could set it to surface mesh only and see what it looks like. It might show this extra triangle or reveal another problem. Not sure how to solve it though, other than slightly changing dimensions of the CAD model. Mecway 4 uses the same versio…
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Is this extra surface one triangle, and selecting it also selects a neighboring real surface? This isn't something I've seen before with the CAD import, but it's a bug that can happen occasionally with the automesher which is the same code, so it's …
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I've heard that the product key isn't reliably recognized on Wine so just a caution for anyone who might buy it hoping to use Linux that it could be limited to the 1000 node free version. Hopefully I can get a more compatible update done later.
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I'm flying blind here, but that error message indicates a .Net class (GraphicsPath) which is used by the graphing library in Mecway (ZedGraph) but apparently not fully implemented in Mono. So it might be happening whenever it tries to display a grap…
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Wow. Thanks for all the effort. I need to track down what's happening.
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Hi waluyo I don't intend to add those features natively because they're now fairly easy to use through the open source CalculiX solver. For nonlinear materials, you still have to define the material properties by hand using keywords. Contact has a …
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Thanks for reporting on Wine whitequark, that's great news. From what I can tell, Wine already comes with its own version of Tahoma. Was it not displaying properly until you installed the Microsoft Tahoma?
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I plan to include PEEQ by default along with adding the plastic material as a new material type so they'll go together. For now, there's the workaround of adding *EL FILE using custom step contents.
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I'll contact you privately about the product key. Generally any Mecway product key starting with "=004-" or a number greater than 4 is supposed to activate version 4.
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Hello cashan. This effectively happens automatically in the form of component colors. Though to get a legend, you would need to rename each material or component with its thickness so it's displayed in the outline tree. You can also use "Show thick…
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All version 3 customers can use the same product key for version 4.
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Good to hear it's OK now. The table should be able to do one node. Does it look like this picture?
