Calculate and Assign Midmesh Thicknesses
Calculate and assign the thickness of a midmesh from solid geometry using the Midmesh Thickness tool.
The thickness will be assigned to the midmesh either on node card, element card,
nodal thickness on element card, or as properties on elements or components
depending on the solver profile you are using.
Restriction: Only
available in the OptiStruct, Radioss, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, PAM-CRASH 2G, or
Nastran solver profiles.
From the menu bar, click .
Select Midmesh and Solid Inputs
The midmesh and solid can be specified by manually selecting entities from the current HyperMesh session, or by selecting external geometry or FE solver decks as input.
Select midmesh and solid inputs.
To select input from | Do this |
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External geometry/FE solver decks |
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Existing entities |
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Define Thickness Output
Calculate and assign a thickness on the midmesh.
Define Visualization Settings
Define visualization settings for the midmesh.
Define visualization settings for the midmesh.
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Element coloring by thickness | Set the Element Color mode to By Thickness resulting in a contour plot of thickness. |
2D detailed element representation | Display midmesh elements as 2D with the assigned thickness as
depth.
Assigning a thickness for each individual node or element, enables
you to assign a variable thickness to elements. You can visualize both
the element and nodal thickness in the graphics area by selecting
2D Detailed Element Representation from the
Visualization toolbar. The behavior of 2D Detailed Element
Representation depends on what you assigned a thickness to. For
example, if you assign a component an element thickness, then the
element thickness representation will be displayed. If you assign a
nodal thickness to an element node, then each individual node
thickness will be plotted and you will be able to see the first and
second order trias and quad elements. When you assign a nodal
thickness, you can select the By Thickness
option in the Visualization toolbar to display each node value. If
you assign a nodal thickness, and offset is on, then the element
thickness from the nodes will be calculated, the element will be
offset, and the nodal thickness 2D Detailed Element representation
on the offset elements will be plotted.
Restriction: Composites with variable thickness are not added for this
feature.
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Highlight corrected elements | Highlight the elements whereby the thickness could not be calculated from solid, and deploy the correction method. |