×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

How to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190

How to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190

How to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190

(OP)
I am unable  to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190


I can get this to work correctly
can anyone give me a step by step guide

Regards

RE: How to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190



1) the volume to sweep must be "extrudable"

2) Set meshing parameters:

mshkey,2
mshape,0,3d

3) Select Volumes you want to sweep (VSEL,...)

4) Mesh: VSWEEP,ALL

I have never used the solsh190 elements, but I don't see any reason for not working with vseep...

Regards,
Alex

RE: How to do a volumne sweep of element type solsh190

Make sure that when you sweep with the solsh190s, the element is oriented correctly so the shell thickness is defined properly.  If you look up help,190 it will show you the node order that defines the thickness direction.

Here's a quick example if you still need one:
finish
/clear

/prep7
blc4,0,0,1,1,.125
et,1,190
lsel,s,loc,z,.01,.124
lesize,all,,,1
vsweep,all
/view,1,1,1,1
eplo

If your geometry is complex, you may need to do some slicing and dicing to get it to work.

Hope this helps,
Doug

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources