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Hello Janko While this is possible, it can be a little tricky to specify the boundary conditions. Use the 2D Navier-Stokes analysis type which allows velocity boundary conditions for a no-slip condition at the cylinder. Here is an example. As you …
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I'll add this to the list. As always I can't promise but thanks for suggesting it. Are you also looking for the internal contour surfaces?
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Thanks for the suggestion. This is a widely requested feature, so I'm aiming to get it into Mecway in a near future version as long as there are no major obstacles.
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Hello VMH Typically, if you've used imperial units in the model (except for the mesh if you reopen the file), the tape measure will show inches. It could be that it contains some metric lengths or no imperial units at all. A workaround is to start…
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Thanks for the suggestion. I can't promise temperature dependent mechanical properties though. For now you would have to do it manually using components to define regions of uniform properties.
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Hello apadzak I think this is not a problem, just a difference. By refining the mesh several times, it looks like the "true" mode 9 should be out-of-plane as you found with Mecway. In that case, the hex8 elements in both Mecway and Abaqus are incor…
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Hello apadzak I recognize the limitation of not being able to select edges. However using nodes will give exactly the same results as edges because edge constraints would be internally converted to node constraints. I'd be interested to see the mo…
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A few hundred or thousand, depending on what features you're interested in. Maybe down to 100 using hex20 elements (hand-made mesh). I notice that in this case the stress away from the fixed support mostly changes by less than a couple of percent wh…
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These two files are identical (wrong upload?). Mesh refinement will probably have a big effect on them though because they use tet elements which can need a lot of refinement for good results, especially when they're so distorted like that. You don…
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Hello Andrew This is actually a shell mesh, even though it looks solid at first. That's the reason it complains about no thickness in the Aluminium material. Not having a thickness is then the reason it doesn't solve. Mecway can only make shell me…
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Yes, hold ctrl to do multiple selections of nodes, then change them all to faces in one hit.
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Hello Andrew Here are two ways: A) Since it's from a STEP file, it's better to apply loads directly to the surface there so you can remesh it without losing the selection. If the hole is made from 2 surfaces like in the 1st picture below, you'll h…
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Hello FEMnewb. Thanks for the suggestions and helping to improve Mecway. The way loads are distributed over nodes is consistent although it's different to some more classical FEA programs which have them independently attached to each node. For exa…
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Don't blame yourself. Software should be usable without a manual. One goal for Mecway is to make a manual redundant but unfortunately that's still a long way off.
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Hello saf001. I was formerly the sole developer of LISA from 2006-2013. They are two independent companies and both are licensed to sell some of the same code.
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Hello Jim_C You can turn off the element edges with the button at the top right of the toolbar as shown in the picture. You can change the range of field values displayed in the contour plot by expanding the branch of the outline tree and right cl…
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A stress linearization tool is now available in version 2.0.
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It no longer exists sorry. It was too limited to be of much use. To generate a model programmatically, you can create an liml file. There is an example of a spreadsheet which generates pressure vessel components installed in the Samples folder (Mec…
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That's very helpful. I can't promise everything and may contact you by email in future for further clarification.
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Thanks for the suggestion. We'll consider this for version 2 or 3. Can you give a bit more information about what would be useful, such as: 1) Shell elements only 2) Solid elements along lines of nodes 3) Solid elements along arbitrary lines, even i…
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Hello Luis Mecway can't model a heat pipe because it involves temperature driven fluid flow and phase change and it's unlikely to have these features in the near future. A CFD package might be more suitable.
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Cheers Geoff. I hope you find it's more effective for loudspeakers than before even though it's still not natively interfacing with ABEC3
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No, you're not missing anything. A lot of different thicknesses isn't something that's very convenient in Mecway v1. Unfortunately you'll need as many components as thicknesses. Version 2 will improve some of the issues with the outline tree but pro…
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Hello jvrajadell *Removing constraints* I hope I understand you correctly. If you have a constraint applied to many nodes, and want to remove it from some of them: 1. Select the nodes in the graphics area 2. Right click the constraint in the outlin…
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I think the computer gets the credit for that Though I see IBM 3090 was pretty amazing for the 80's! I'm still not happy with the performance of the iterative solution. Somehow, I think if you could just look at the intermediate results and choose…
