Workshop 5.

1 Explicit:
Projectile
Introduction to ANSYS Meshing

Release 2019 R2

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 Introduction
Background
• This workshop will demonstrate how to create a Swept mesh for a bomb geometry
• In this workshop, we assume the user has SpaceClaim access and experience
Objectives
• Generating an initial mesh
• Using slicing methods in SpaceClaim to break the geometry into sweepable components
• Using Virtual Topology to make the geometry sweepable

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 Project Startup
Create the Project
• Start Workbench
• Drag and drop a Mesh Component
System into the Project Schematic
• Right click on the Geometry cell (A2) and
select Import Geometry → Browse
• Locate the file “projectile.scdoc” in the
Meshing workshop input files (Module05)
folder and select it. The geometry cell will
show a check mark indicating it is up to
date

• Double click the mesh cell (A3) to start

Meshing

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 Unit

Set Units
• From the main menu select Units and, if it is not already set,
specify Metric (mm...)

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 Global Mesh Settings

Mesh
• In Details of “Mesh”, set the following under Defaults:
- Physics Preference: Explicit
Leave the other controls to their default

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 Initial Mesh (1)

Generate Mesh
• Generate the Mesh and press “Show Mesh”

• In Explicit the Hexahedral Mesh is strongly recommended; we will prepare the geometry in
SpaceClaim in order to have 100% hex elements

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 Geometry Preparation

Open the geometry in SpaceClaim in order to use slicing methods to break the
geometry into sweepable components

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (1)

• Verify that the units are set to mm in File > SpaceClaim Options

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (2)
Orient the geometry in the z global axis, Click the keyboard shortcut ‘z’ to adjust

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (3)
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• Sketch a rectangle starting from the right corner as shown below
You must click on the surface to sketch on before

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3

• Set the dimensions to 25 mm as height and 125 mm as width

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (4)
Pull
Pull the created surface to 25 mm by clicking on ‘no merge’ in the
pull options

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (5)
• Your geometry will contain 4 solids now
• Using the Combine tool, split the solid shown below to subtract the two solids

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1: Target body

3: Tool body

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (6)

• Click on the created body to

delete it
• Repeat the same procedures with
the two following bodies

Target body

Tool body

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (7)
Orient the geometry in the z global axis, click on the surface as shown below
and draw a line , set the angle to 135°

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (8)
Sweep Operation
• Having the entire bodies selected in the tree Change the bodies to transparent

• Click on the pull function and click on the created line

• Choose the sweep option in the pull menu and sweep the created line in the chosen directory. Press Enter

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (9)
Repeat the same procedure with the bottom surface

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (10)
Slice
• Hide the newly created cube and do the slicing operations

• First slice the 2 shown bodies by the first created surface then the 2 shown bodies with the second surface

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (11)
Combine
• Delete the 2 surfaces and combine the 2 shown bodies then the 2 shown bodies

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (12)
Creating new line
• Orient the view in the x global axis and click on the shown surface to create the line
• Create the line as shown and set the angle to 135°. Pull the line to get the following surface

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 Slice Operations in SpaceClaim (13)
Slice Operation
‐ Slice the 3 shown bodies with the created surface. Delete the surface and activate the cube in
the tree
Put all the bodies in the same component and set the Share
Topology to Share

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 Update the geometry
Update the geometry in Mechanical
• Go back to Mechanical and right click on geometry and choose ‘update geometry from
source’

• If you didn’t finish the work on SpaceClaim, replace the geometry by ‘projectile-cliced.scdoc’
in the folder ‘Module 05’ in Workshop input files

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 Update the mesh

Update the mesh

‐ Notice that all the bodies are meshed with hex elements except 2 bodies

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 Shared Topology (1)

Creating Shared Topology

• Isolate the body shown after hiding the generated mesh
• Notice the hard edges in both directions, we will fix that with
virtual cells

• Insert a Shared Topology from the Model object in the tree

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 Shared Topology (2)
• With the Shared Topology highlighted in the tree, create the following virtual cells

• Update the mesh and view the Element Quality

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 Optional Challenge

If you have some time left, try to add some sizing controls to get a finer mesh

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 Save the Project

• This completes the workshop

• From the main menu select File → Close Meshing

– Workbench will save any application data

• From the Workbench Project Page use the file menu and save the
project as “AMWS5.1_explicit.wbpj” to your working folder

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