Drawing 3D geometry in Abaqus CAE/Command

[JayTung]

Dear All,

I am going to draw a 3-D model to be run in Abaqus. I would like to know how I can do that.

I find it is a little bit cumplicated to design the 3-D structure with certain curvatures in CAE.

Could anyone tell any assisting softwares or approaches of designing the 3-D geometry in a simpler way for finite element analysis?



Many thanks,



Jay

 

[Timusop]

It may be better and easier to model the part in a CAD package, like Solidworks/Autodesk/ProE and then import the model into an FEA package.

 

[JayTung]

Thanks Timusop.

Could I design the mesh with the CAD package ?

I also heard about Rhino for model design. Is it good ?

Many thanks,

Jay

 

[rstupplebeen]

Typically I create complex geometry in SolidWorks or Catia and then import into Abaqus and mesh. If I were to learn 1 CAD package I would go with SolidWorks since it is so widely spread and easy to use. I hope this helps.

Rob Stupplebeen

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

 

[JayTung]

Thanks Rob.

If I want to do some iterations like

1. draw a geometric object in solidwork
2. import to abaqus and mesh
3. export the the deformed geometric object
4. can i automatically mesh the deformed object again in abaqus ?
5. deform it..
6...repeat step 4 and 5

or i need some other geometry compilers to code the deformed object for input to FEM analysis ??

Thanks a lot,

Jay