Plate/shell model
Plate/shell model
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Does anyone know if it is possible to develope a plate/shell 3D model with Inventor 7 that does not have a thickness?
It's like drawing a circle and then extruding just the circle as a hollow pipe with no wall thickness.
I am trying to create a 3D model that will represent a vessel with a nozzle that will be inputed into an older(1999) Algor FEA program as thin walled plate/shell elements. The thickness is inputed during the decoding stage based on the vessel's wall color.
I'm having trouble inputing a solid wall model with different surface colores into the Algor program.
It keeps coming up as all one color.
I need different surface colors to idenify what surfaces will be loaded with pressure.
So,can a plate/shell model be created with Inventor 7 ?
It's like drawing a circle and then extruding just the circle as a hollow pipe with no wall thickness.
I am trying to create a 3D model that will represent a vessel with a nozzle that will be inputed into an older(1999) Algor FEA program as thin walled plate/shell elements. The thickness is inputed during the decoding stage based on the vessel's wall color.
I'm having trouble inputing a solid wall model with different surface colores into the Algor program.
It keeps coming up as all one color.
I need different surface colors to idenify what surfaces will be loaded with pressure.
So,can a plate/shell model be created with Inventor 7 ?
RE: Plate/shell model
RE: Plate/shell model
Thanks for the reply.
I tried what you said and it will create a picture of what I'm looking for, unfortunatly Inventer will not let me save it as an IEGS file (which is what the Algor program is looking for).
I also tried sweeping the circle along a line and came up with the same results.
RE: Plate/shell model
RE: Plate/shell model
RE: Plate/shell model
None of these formats will retain color information.
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