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study of Stents in ANSYS

study of Stents in ANSYS

study of Stents in ANSYS

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I designed a stent in Solidworks imported to ANSYS and trying to mesh the feature, it pop's out a window all the time saying define volume, volume is not defined.I am new to ANSYS and not clear what eleent types to select or how to mesh the stent.I have to apply pressure as how balloon expandable stents work. Can anyone please help me with the steps how to analyze the stents in ANSYS.

RE: study of Stents in ANSYS

My guess is that Ansys thinks that it is a shell model.  Check in SolidWorks to see if it is a solid.  Also, check that you have exported and imported solids not surfaces or shells.  I hope this helps.

Rob Stupplebeen
https://sites.google.com/site/robertkstupplebeen/

RE: study of Stents in ANSYS

(OP)
I am trying to mesh and analyse 3 D stent imported from Solid works to Ansys.
Whenever I try to mesh it gives mesagge that
Element type 1 a solid I86, which cannot be used with the AMES command. Meshing area 301 aborted.
What does this mean?

 

RE: study of Stents in ANSYS

My buddy here at work mentioned to export the SW as a STEP file and import to ANSYS.  

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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