WORKSHOP 11

EDIT SOLID, BLADE

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Problem Description

It is required to inspect geometry provided by a designer and

decide what, if any, changes must be made before creating the
finite element model.
In this workshop it is required to suppress a small feature of the
geometry which is not important to the stress analysis.
After editing the geometry, solid mesh the new solid.
The geometry that has to be modified is shown on the following
slide.

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Remove the hole shown in this detail

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General outline of the steps to be performed

Import a Parasolid model file for a blade, blade_w_drill_point.X_T.

Disassemble the Parasolid solid into surfaces.

Geometry: Edit/Solid/Disassemble

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General outline of the steps to be performed (continued)

Remove the small center hole (select the two edges that define the
hole edge).

Geometry: Edit/Surface/Remove Hole

Select the two edges that define the edge of the hole
Select the trimmed surface

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General outline of the steps to be performed (continued)

Delete the surfaces that define the cylinder hole(Surface 4, 9) and the
cone(Surface 5, 6)

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General outline of the steps to be performed (continued)

Assemble the remaining surfaces to create a B-rep solid.

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General outline of the steps to be performed (continued)

Use Geometry: Show/Solid/Attributes to check such things as the solid

volume and type

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General outline of the steps to

be performed (continued)

Mesh the solid

Check element quality

Finite Elements: Create/Mesh/Solid

Finite Elements: Verify/Tet/All

The hole in the geometric solid

could have been eliminated
using Geometry: Edit / Solid /
Boolean, Add to fill the hole.

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