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Midsurfacing of Geometry
FE Assembly Connections
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Femap Basic
Importing and Meshing Geometry
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NX Unigraphics (.prt)
NX I-deas (.idi) Pro/Engineer (.prt, .asm) Catia v4 (.mdl, .exp, .dlv) Catia v5 (.catP*) optional SolidWorks (.sldprt, .sldasm)
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General considerations
Any parasolid entity that has area and no volume (i.e. a surface,
command.
Sometimes this can cause confusion when stitching, and there is
an unknown sliver. The part looks like a solid and lists out as a solid, but when you look at the messages window it will say "Sheet Solid 1 Created, Solid 1 Passes Body Checking"
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Troublesome Geometry
The challenge of meshing a part will usually arise from a
geometry into Femap You usually don't know if you have a problem with your
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Troublesome Geometry
Geometry, Solid, Cleanup command
Is used to "cleanup a solid This command will check the solid
and remove any extraneous features which are not part of the actual solid Geometry, Solid, Explode/Stitch
commands
Sometimes, problems with small
slivers, or edges that don't quite meet each other can be solved by exploding the solid, and re-stitching it with a tolerance wider than the slivers.
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and if it is a valid surface mesh, Femap then creates tetrahedral elements moving from the outside mesh inward.
The Messages window
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Boundary Intersection. No edges of the boundary to be meshed may intersect any other boundary edge - usually means that elements are being created on top of each other, or are protruding into each other
This is usually due to a discontinuity or other error in the
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form a regular boundary surface The surfaces must be stitched into a solid. This feature works best with surfaces that have small to moderate curvature. Can be used to remove sliver surfaces by selecting surfaces that surround the sliver.
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Femap Basic
Midsurfacing of Geometry
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Mid-surfacing of Geometry
Mid-surfacing commands allows users
to extract midsurfaces in order to reduce the complexity and increase accuracy of the FE Model
For the part shown:
Solids: 113,512 nodes and 63,875
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part(s) of the surface which lie outside the volume of the solid. Geometry, Midsurface, Trim with Curve
Trims or breaks a surface with a curve
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Shape method
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to solid and cleans up any surfaces that are determined not to be part of the model Mid-surfaces are extracted from parallel faces
Automatically creates a group called Midsurface
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thickness only
The offset surfaces will be automatically stitched
together and finally you will be asked if you want to delete the original solid. Geometry, Midsurface, Generate, Intersect and
Cleanup
These are the steps in order that the automatic
surface(s) and then automatically create the properties referencing the original thickness(es) of the solid.
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Attributes (Triangles)
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Femap Basic
Loads and Constraints
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Body Loads
Body or Global Loads applied to the entire model. Acceleration Translational (gravity) and Rotational Rotational Velocity and Center of Rotations
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Structural Loads
Load Type Force Force Per Length Force Per Area Force Per Node Moment Moment Per Length Moment Per Area Moment Per Node Displacement Enforced Rotation Velocity Rotational Velocity Acceleration Rotational Acceleration Distributed Load Pressure Points Curves Surfaces Nodes Elements
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Thermal Loads
Load Type Temperature Element Temperature Heat Flux (Heat Energy /Unit Area) Heat Flux per Length Heat Flux per Node Heat Generation (Heat Energy / Unit Volume) Element Heat Flux Convection Radiation Points Curves Surfaces Nodes Elements
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Fluid Loads
Load Type Static Fluid Pressure Total Fluid Pressure General Scalar Steam Quality Relative Humidity Fluid Height Condition Points Curves Surfaces Nodes Elements
Unknown Condition
Slip Wall Condition Fan Curve Periodic Condition
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Notes on Loads
Nastran Displacement and Enforced Rotation loads require
constraining the loaded object in the direction of the applied load (NX, MSC.Nastran)
e.g. A Displacement Load of x=.10, and y=.10 applied to a point
requires that the corner be constrained in X and Y For NX Nastran Advanced Nonlinear (SOL601), loads should be
for details on the loads supported by Femap for the solver used Also refer to that solvers documentation on how to apply loads.
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Creating Load
geometry
Load type depends on analysis type and
application entity
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Bearing Loads
Model, Load on Surface, Bearing Force with Normal To Surface option checked
Bearing Loads
Bearing Loads definitions can have an included angle here bearing load is defined with 120 degree Load Angle
node's location, respectively. The input, !i will cycle through all of the entities you selected in the entity selection box to apply the load on.
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Modal Frequency
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Creep
Transient
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only models.
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Constraints Definition
Constraints specified on model mesh For example Model, Constraint, Nodal specifies six (6) nodal
degrees of freedom
X translation = 1, X rotation = 4 Y translation = 2, Y rotation = 5 X translation = 3, Z rotation = 6
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Constraints Definition
Geometric Constraints - applied
Surface
Standard Types, Advanced
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Femap Basic
FE Assembly Connections
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solid model
In order for Parasolid to guarantee the precision of solids, all entities
must be within a "size box" that is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 centered at the origin In order for parts to be modeled that would fall outside this box, most CAD systems utilize a scale factor As recommended by Parasolid, most parts are stored internally in meters Users expecting to work in a US unit system of inches and
pounds will find that the Parasolid solid itself is 39.37 times smaller inside Parasolid.
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Units Conversion
Nmm
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internally in Femap so that with default scaling, a part of 1.0 on the desktop will be stored as 0.0254 in the database
Inches on desktop, meters in
database If user wishes to create solid geometry in mm, then set scale factor to 1000
Parasolid: always stored in SI no
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In the context of a Finite Element Model, an Assembly should be considered to be any FEM model with more than one element type or property. Examples are: Multi-body solid assembly (same or multiple materials) Beam models with multiple cross-sectional areas Mixed Shell and Solid models Mixed Beam and Shell models
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Coincident Node Shell to Solid and Beam to Solid Connections Welded Connections Mesh Connections and Properties
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Coincident Nodes
For model mesh check runTools,
where you anticipate there a large number of coincident nodes, uncheck the List Coincident Entities option Depending on how the model was
set up before meshing (e.g. use of Slice Match, etc.), some meshes will be generated automatically with coincident nodes
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Shells and Solids and Beams To create a RBE3, use Interpolation Factor in the Rigid Element dialog box
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Rigid Elements
New Node At Center can be used from Independent section of Define RIGID Element
When used, FEMAP will
automatically create a node at center of all the selected Dependent (or converted Nodes to Average) nodes
Rigid Elements
Convert button for conversion of rigid element to interpolation element and vice versa. When converting from rigid element to interpolation, FEMAP will ask OK to Convert only Translational Degrees of Freedom?
Welded Connections
Femap supports Weld/Fastener Elements
Creates CWELD (NX , NEi, MSC) or CFAST elements for Nastrans
(NX , MSC) only Spot Weld uses an effective length calculation based on the thickness of the two shell elements connected. A fastener element uses a similar type of connection.
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Welded Connections
Femap supports Weld/Fastener Elements Multiple options for generating Weld/Fastener Elements Orientation of Weld is defined by either Projection method or Axis method and may be limited by the type of Weld selected
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Connect Menu
Contact Regions, Properties, and Connections are moved to the Connect menu Connect, Automatic command finds the closest matching surfaces between solids and automatically Specify search tolerance and type of contact Model Info window has a Connections object tree
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Property dialog box, first select the tab for the solver
For NX Nastran select in
Glue
button when switching Contact Type or manually creating a new Connection Property.
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Connect Menu
Fluid Region command creates individual segments representing incompressible fluid volume regions and is available in Nastrans (NX, MSC) supported solution sequences (SOL 103, 107-112, 129 and 200). Bolt Region command creates individual regions of a single element or multiple elements where you would like to apply a bolt "preload" (NEi, NX, MSC). Rotor Region command creates individual regions of nodes to be used as individual "rotors" in rotor dynamic analysis in NX Nastran. Rotor Dynamics is only supported in supported Nastran Solution Sequences 110 and 111.
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Analysis Set
Export creates Nastran input file
solution
Preview Input displays input file,
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uses it directly
For results with element centroid data but no corner
to each node (default); or Use the Maximum of the Centroidal values of the connected elements.
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determine the data (default), Use the maximum of the values at each node (element corner data) Average the Centroidal values for all the elements connected to each node (ignores the corner data you have); or Use the Maximum of the Centroidal values of the connected elements.
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be transformed into different directions or coordinate systems using the Transformation buttons.
Deformation Transformation dialog box allows
you to choose Destination to transform the chosen nodal output vector into and which Active Components will be displayed
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transform output that references global X, Y, Z components into any chosen coordinate system or into the nodal output coordinate system at each node.
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Contour Options
The contour algorithm in Femap will use
Element options
Provides the capability to Smart Average
results. Thus accounting for discontinuities in material or geometry and providing a more accurate representation of the results. Can display Double-sided Planar Contours
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Node N
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XY Plots
Use View, Select (F5) command to
generate XY plots
XY vs ID - plots XY data as a function of ID XY vs Set - plots XY data versus the output
set number for an Output Vector across several Output Sets XY vs Set Value - similar to vs Set, except uses Output Set value for X XY vs Position - plots XY data vs the position of nodes or element in an axis direction for an output Vector in on Output Set XY vs Function - (not a postprocessing option) plots XY data for a function
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XY Plots of Functions
Functions can be displayed
quickly by selecting the function to be displayed in the Model Info window and selecting Show from the context-sensitive menu.
Opens a new graphics view
titled XY Show
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Freebody Display
In the View Select dialog box,
Force Balance data from analysis, if not only Applied and reaction forces will be available.
Total Summed Loads to check
be viewed
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diagram
Select the Model, Loads,
Loads from Freebody command Creates nodal loads from the Free body diagram as displayed on the screen in the Active Load Set.
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Animation Commands
Create the animation in the View Select dialog box and select
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Animation Options
By selecting the View, Advanced Post, Animation command, you
Once the plot is animating, it can be saved as an Avi file using the
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On/off, Location
Deformed Style Scale, Automatic scaling options Contour/Criteria Style, Levels and Legend
Note: Post Processing options are saved along with the View Style in the View Library.
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Post Toolbar
Allows quick display of Deformed and Contour plots Detailed Postprocessing settings accessible from the Post Options
pulldown icon
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