Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
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Hi,
I'm working with a model that has really small parts, of about 40 microns. Using Abaqus 6.3 I can easilly sketch them and everything works fine, but with abaqus 6.5 it's impossible to have a detail finer than 1mm.
I know that abaqus uses "dimensionless units", but in order to work in SI units and keep everything as simple as possible, I've been trying to work in SI units everywhere.
Even if I sketch the parts in 6.3 and import them to 6.5, it just flattens out my solids.
Does anyone know if there is a way around this? Why this apparent step back between versions?
I'll probably have to change the units in model, but my experience is that I'll have to go through some messy stuff before having everything working ok...
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
To
I'm working with a model that has really small parts, of about 40 microns. Using Abaqus 6.3 I can easilly sketch them and everything works fine, but with abaqus 6.5 it's impossible to have a detail finer than 1mm.
I know that abaqus uses "dimensionless units", but in order to work in SI units and keep everything as simple as possible, I've been trying to work in SI units everywhere.
Even if I sketch the parts in 6.3 and import them to 6.5, it just flattens out my solids.
Does anyone know if there is a way around this? Why this apparent step back between versions?
I'll probably have to change the units in model, but my experience is that I'll have to go through some messy stuff before having everything working ok...
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks
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RE: Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
RE: Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
Are you using the same version of abaqus?
Thanks for your help
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RE: Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
Actually, I have just try modeling a part with such small dimensions and I run into same problem. However the mesh based representation is not affected.
Does this problem affect the mesh representation, too?
RE: Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
happy new year.
You're right, the meshing is ok. That kind of solves all the problems because when assemblying the piece, now I can visualize everything as it it should be.
Yes, I'm working with dimensions of the order of 10^-5. Actually I have already changed everything else in my model to be consistent with the mm-Tonne and it's working fine, thats means that now my dimensions are of the order 10^-2, but with your suggestion of visualizing the mesh I'll probably go back to SI again.
Still, it looks like a bug, doesn't it? In V6.3-1 this didn't happen...
Thanks a lot for all your help,
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RE: Abaqus CAE V6.5 and V6.3
You are welcome.
I have not used 6.3, but with 6.4 and 6.5, I have faced other CAE visualization issues as well. I wonder if the graphic card has any influence on these problems...