Dividing Only Surfaces
Dividing Only Surfaces
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I want to model a roller for a bearing. The bearing is to be calculated in Ansys Workbench and all the components are to be meshed in the latter one. I want to create all of my components in Pro/Engineer and did this already. I've created the roller as a revolved part because I can change its dimensions very easy this way. But as long as just a small part of it (the contacting area) needs to be meshed fine the remaining volume can be meshed coarsely. For this purpose I want to subdivide the surface of the revolved part somehow into particular areas. I already tried to revolve just an angle of 30degree and patterned the body 12times to completely 360degrees. But then also the volume is subdivided into 12subparts which are seperated by internal surfaces and this causes a lot of problems for the automatic mesher in Ansys WB.
So what I need is a revolved part in Pro/Engineer where I can somehow divide just the surface in smaller areas. Does anyone have an idea how to deal with this problem?
I am using Wildfire 3.0.
Remark: When wou revolve a sketch about 360degrees Pro/E automatically divides the resulting surface into two parts as you can see if you check the resulting component. Maybe this could give someone a glue?!
So what I need is a revolved part in Pro/Engineer where I can somehow divide just the surface in smaller areas. Does anyone have an idea how to deal with this problem?
I am using Wildfire 3.0.
Remark: When wou revolve a sketch about 360degrees Pro/E automatically divides the resulting surface into two parts as you can see if you check the resulting component. Maybe this could give someone a glue?!





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So what I did now and what fits more to an Ansys topic:
Use Ansys Geometry Designer, import the parts from Pro/E, sketch the subdivisions as lines in a normal plane and use the extrude feature to create an imprint.
Compared to the method in Pro/E that is described above you obtain one avantage in Ansys Geometry: the volume is not divided but only the surfaces. Due to this the mesher is able to do his job much more efficient.
Tanks for helping!