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How to revolve a mesh in I-DEAS to have a volume too?

How to revolve a mesh in I-DEAS to have a volume too?

How to revolve a mesh in I-DEAS to have a volume too?

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Dear Members
In ANSYS, when you revolve or extrude a mesh, it does the revolution and extrusion, and in addition of the mesh, it generates a volume with surfaces too.
However, when I revolve or extrude a mesh in I-DEAS, it just generates the mesh and there is no volume and surfaces generated corresponding with this mesh. This makes the loading and boundary condition difficult.
My question is: Do you know a way in I-DEAS that when you revolve or extrude a mesh, it generates the corresponding volume and surfaces too?
The sweep option does not help because you can not sweep the source and target surfaces in the way you like, even if you use lots of anchor nodes.
I appreciate your prompt responses.

RE: How to revolve a mesh in I-DEAS to have a volume too?

Create a part with the geometry you want to mesh (solids and/o r surfaces) and mesh the geometry (you might want to use "geometry based FE").

RE: How to revolve a mesh in I-DEAS to have a volume too?

IDEAS is reverse of ANSYS. You have to create the volume first mesh second. This is because FE model is attached to the part not part attached to the FE model, in other words FE model follows the part but not the other way around.
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