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Basic Ansa: Geometry Clean Up and Shell Meshing
Basic Ansa: Geometry Clean Up and Shell Meshing
BASIC ANSA
GEOMETRY CLEAN UP
AND SHELL MESHING
Table of Contents
1.1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................2
1.1.2. Prerequisites .......................................................................................................................2
1.1.3. Problem description.............................................................................................................2
1.1.4. Data files .............................................................................................................................2
1.2. Read the CAD file .......................................................................................................................3
1.3. Perform Cleanup .........................................................................................................................9
1.4. Defeaturing................................................................................................................................37
1.5. Shell meshing............................................................................................................................49
1.6. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................62
Read the IGES file with different tolerance settings and assess the results.
Clean up geometry, close gaps, modify or create new Faces etc.
Optionally, repeat the previous step with the help of Automatic Clean Up functionality.
De-featuring, removing details such as small holes and fillets.
Mesh the parts with an element length of 10 mm
Improve the mesh by optimizing the shape of the Macro Areas
1.1.2. Prerequisites
Reading the 4 pages of section Intro.2.1. Getting Started of this Guide is recommended in order to
obtain a familiarization with the ANSA interface and terminology.
1.1.3. Problem description
The geometry of the part is shown here
in its final state. Note that the part
consists of more than one Property IDs
(PIDs), as shown in different colors.
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F9
F8
If at any time you lose the view, press F9 to fit all to the screen.
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The File Manager opens next. Select again the basic.igs file and press OK.
The CAD file is read and Topology is
applied, this time with middle tolerance
values.
The red free edges are now less,
because the topology process resulted in
the topological connection of more Faces
automatically.
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ESC
Note also that you can save the current locations of all buttons (and
more user settings) using the SETTINGS> SAVE SETTINGS>SAVE
SAVE SETTINGS function, in the main pull down menu. This will save a text file called
ANSA.defaults in your home directory. The next time you will start
ANSA, this file will be read, and all your settings recovered.
SETTINGS
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Save the file from FILE>SAVE AS to your local directory under the name
basic.ansa. The File Manager opens in order to specify the path and the
SAVE AS ANSA database filename. Remember when you save or output in ANSA you
must always type the appropriate extension for each file type.
You will now proceed with Geometry cleanup.
(If at any time you want to pause your work you can exit ANSA from FILE>QUIT, and then start
ANSA again and read the ANSA database basic.ansa from FILE>OPEN to resume work).
FILE
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ALL
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Esc
Press
DELETE to
delete the
Face.
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ALL
DELETE
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3
2
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INFO
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NOT
INVERT
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2
1
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ALL
to visible.
COONS
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flange
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PROJECT
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F7
1
2
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PASTE
1
Select the two CONS.
2
Confirm with middle mouse button.
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PASTE
shown.
2
2
1
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both Faces.
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PROJECT
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INFO
Face.
Press DELETE in the Delete Face window that
appears.
A gap remains.
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FLANGE
WIDTH
Select all the red CONS shown (in the direction
of flange extension only) with the left mouse
button.
Confirm with middle mouse button.
The Flange Distance window appears.
Type a value of 10 and activate the Delete Old
Flange flag.
Press OK.
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TOPO
Topology is applied.
DELETE
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INVERT
necessary.
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PARAM
DACH
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CURVEs
FLANGE
CORNER
The Radius Definition window appears.
Activate the
AUTO flag button.
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UCHECKED
functions.
The UCHECKED function leaves only visible the
Faces that fail the SHADOW operation. Such
Faces usually are thin needle shaped Faces or
Faces that have bad Surface description.
In your case the display should be left blank,
indicating the absence of such problems.
ALL
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Visible
All the Macro Areas are meshed with the FREE
algorithm.
The number of the visible elements is given in a
text legend on the left.
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RE-MESH
Visible
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PARAM
Type in a value of 0.5 to place a Hot Point midlength of the CONS, and press Enter.
A Hot Point is created.
PRJ-CUT
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MESH >
JOIN
To facilitate selection
of Perimeter Segments
for joining, activate the
flag in the Corner Angle selection window that
appears.
Select with left mouse button the string of
Perimeters, picking from the bottom.
Selected Perimeters are not immediately joined
but highlighted as selected.
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RE-MESH
Visible
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Visible
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CUT
2
1
Prj-Cut
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CUT
Cut
2
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JOIN
NUMBER
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JOIN
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! Having quit ANSA, you may, or may not, want to delete the ANSA.defaults file that you have
created from FILE>SETTINGS>SAVE SETTINGS>SAVE (page 1-7). This file is located in your
home directory.
Deleting the file will ensure that the next time you start ANSA, it will appear with its inherent default
settings.
1.6. Conclusion
In this tutorial you have followed all the basic steps to clean up the geometry of a part, remove
some small details and mesh it with shell elements. Not all capabilities were demonstrated. Refer
also to ANSA v12.x Users Guide and to the On-Line Help for the functionality of ANSA and detailed
description of functions and procedures.
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