By gaining early insight into product behavior, you can greatly improve product quality while saving time, effort and money. Ptc creo simulate gives designers and engineers the power to evaluate structural and thermal product performance on your digital model before resorting to costly, timeconsuming physical prototyping. Flexibility to define element sizes, distribution and shapes mapped meshing, thin solids. Ansys meshing inflation in mapped face meshing cfd. May 21, 2015 technique to refine a 3d element mesh in select areas of high stress. Click refine model and then click the arrow next to control in native mode.
Views 2504 views difficulty level introductory mark fischer, ptc. The mapped mesh control option is available both in native and fem modes. Projecting from a mesh import to use a mesh file to project sketch geometry, you will need to first convert the mesh to a brep solid. I would like to investigate how sample size affects my estimates and what happens to the estimates if a path is added or removed. The commands are presented in a clickbyclick manner using simple. Each of the quads produced by mapped meshing is split into two triangles. If the 2 central wedges are selected such that the.
The easiest way to check the mesh size is to look at the edges of small circular holes in the feature file. Even with a million particles and a 1024x512x512 level set driving mesh construction, the produced fluid mesh still didnt fit the solid boundaries of the sim precisely. The settings you entered will create a fine mesh with lots of small triangular surfaces. To get the best mesh possible on a cad solid model, it is suggested to set the mesh size to the smallest diameter in your model divided by four. The mesher is restricted not to add any more points to the mapped meshed surfaces so that the resulting mesh remains on the boundary surface as dictated by the control. Each circle should be divided into at least 5 or 6 segments. I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to create a mapped mesh on the geometry highlighted in yellow.
Available as a standalone or an extension to creo parametric, creo simulate has the same user interface. Mapped meshing manually construct mapped meshing regions by selecting faces, edges or points bricks and wedges in volumes quads and tris on surfaces element compatibility is automatically maintained across mapped meshing regions improves performance and robustness of nonlinear analyses with the use of a structured mesh. On your model, select the curve you want to measure. For example ptc creo simulate, the program which you will use, provides constant strain and many higher order triangular elements. At the end of the fundamentals i workshop, you will apply your knowledge to iteratively optimize a lever design for minimizing its mass. Enable mapped mesh control option on solid surfaces in. Creating a mapped mesh on fillets ptc learning connector. Benefits and description watch a video on ptc university learning exchange, demonstrating the enhancement described below.
Element compatibility is automatically maintained across mapped meshing regions. I used brick elements on the oter tube and wedge elements on the inner cylinder. In the graph location frame, click the cursor button to define the curve that you want to use as a measure. The new user interface for showing results in ptc creo simulate includes the. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The higher order elements have midside nodes so the user can specify curved rather than straight sides this is possible by using isoparametric mappings. Meshlab cannot help with that, as it only deals with meshes. Creo simulate page 3 of 8 simulation capabilities in creo. Ptcs simulation software is designed uniquely for the engineer. This is the demo code for the following paper, benjamin irving, tania douglas, paul taylor. I cant be looking at the meshing problem in the right way.
Creo simulate labels the selected points as hard point on the model. Creo community for users of proengineer, windchill, and. You can export the warped meshgeometry in cad format, stl format, or moldflow study file format, so that it can be opened in another application. Also, i am selecting the correct body in geometry tab. Automatic meshing create accurate meshes directly on 3d cad geometry. In this video, i have demonstrated a very simple 3d model. With creo simulate, design engineers can better understand product performance and then optimize the digital design early in the design cycle, without needing expertise in simulation. You can use points, vertices, edges, surfaces, volumes, components, mesh region edges or mesh region faces as references for creating a mapped mesh region.
In this tip you will learn the value of the mapped mesh control option and how to create a mapped mesh on a model with fillets to aid in improving the speed of analyzing your model. Fnf file into creomechanica i found the problem with importing an fnf file for temperature or pressure loads into creo simulate. Mapped mesh and conflit with native creo geometry indeed in some creo simulate courses or even before, in wf the instructor advised us that generate compatible mesh command could bring some problems during simulation so it was better no use it so why it is still there. Mapped mesh and conflit with native creo geometry ptc.
Mapped meshes and spheres i think i can repeat the issue. As the optimization proceeds, this is slowly reduced until a minimum value is obtained approximately 20% less than the original. The algorithm then checks locally in the model where the strain energy and displacements have changed the most. In those areas it will increase the plevel again and run another solution pass.
This is for those who know part modeling commands in creo parametric. Get an overview of creo simulate in this 55minute webinar by tristar ptc creo simulate allows you to understand product performance, and accommodate the digital design without needing a specialists feabackground. To get a valid fem mesh object you need to have a solid object without errors. In either pass, the mesh remains same, but, the order of the polynomials increases in the second pass at regions where the errors are higher. Figure 1 shows the features of a model that was meshed using an appropriate size mesh. Share simulateresults with others who do not own a ptc creo simulatelicense ptc creo simulate 3. Creo parametric, creo simulate has the same user interface, workflow and productivity tools that are prevalent throughout creo.
Below is an example path model with parameters b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, e1, e2 and e3. Amin, when i did inflation with any other type of meshing instead of mapped face meshing, i was able to. Analysis dialog shown below displays whether there were any errors in running the analysis. Btw, it is may be easier to create the geometry in freecad instead of wasting time to get rid of. Our books are perfect for professionals or as a textbook for classroom use.
For single pass, the solver actually runs two passes to achieve convergence. Thus, product designers can enjoy the same industry leading power, performance and associativity of creo parametric for all. Introduction to solid modeling plus a minimum of 80 hours of creo parametric experience. There are many, many pages that could be written about this. Technique to refine a 3d element mesh in select areas of high stress. You need to import the mesh, convert it to a surface, and then make it solid. Meshing regions specify the shape of the meshing region using the brick, wedge, quad or tri radio button in the region shape area. Creo simulate is a structural, thermal and vibration analysis solution with a comprehensive set of finite elements analysis fea capabilities that allow you to analyze and validate the performance of your 3d virtual prototypes before you make the first part. However, it sounds like you want to create a cad solid, i. This locally adaptive plevel is something that is unique to creo simulate pelement technology.
Learn creo simulate with these popular books and textbooks. How to use creo simulate lite in ptc creo and show design intent. Freecad can convert meshes into solids, however ive had it fail for very complex meshes. If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere. There are two ways to export a warped meshgeometry.
There is a new modern interface for displaying results in ptc creo simulate that you. I am not explaining how extrude works or similar things. The figure on the right shows the mass of the part. Page 4 of 5 ptc creo simulate data sheet meshing tools r surface regions historybased, associative, parametric features r volume regions historybased, associative, parametric features defined as extrudes, revolves, sweeps, helical sweeps, blends, rotational blends, swept blends or based on quilts r fully automatic mesh generation. You can select the entities in any order and simulate will automatically ensure. The mesh size should be smaller than the smallest radius of curvature or feature to be modeled.
Mesh size hints simulation mechanical 2017 autodesk. Costly and laborious physical prototyping hinders a design team, resulting in compromised schedules and budgets. My original simulation imported the part geometry and created the air volume in cfd. Ptc has announced that a database of realistic sample materials will be available in creo 4. I have found some other threads regarding this issue with inflation in mapped faced meshing, but nobody found the correct answer. Mesh and principal component silhouette projection. Aug 15, 2016 click the icon that looks like a paper and pencil that allows you to edit the selected definition. I dont know how the memory would be a problem since i am running the simulation on. No mesh object defined in the analysis freecad forum. On the analyses and design studies dialog, click the green flag button to start run.
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