WORKSHOP 1 SURFACE EDIT, THEN MESH COMPUTER PANEL

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Problem Description

An instrument panel design was modified in a Case Study shown in Section 3. For this workshop add fillets to the corners of a surface for a computer panel, remove the small tooling holes, and reduce the size of the two openings on the right side of the panel for the speaker plugs. Create nodes and elements by meshing. The geometry of the computer panel is shown on the following slide.

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outer corners tooling holes (eight total) outer corners replace

260 mm

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50 mm

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General outline of the steps to be performed

Import the STEP AP203 file computer_panel.step containing the surface to be modified. Model units = 1.0 meter. Follow the steps outlined in the case study Instrument Panel to create the fillets at the four outer corners of the panel, using fillet radius 4 mm Remove the small tooling holes that are in the middle of the panel (8 holes) Remove the two circular openings on the right side of the panel and add new ones with a radius of 2 mm Mesh the part with the Paver mesher using Quad4 elements and an appropriate global edge length Evaluate the quality of the mesh

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After importing the parasolid surface, create the corner fillets

Geometry: Edit/Surface/Add Fillet Enter 4.0 as the radius Select the vertex, then the surface Repeat the steps until all four fillets are created

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Remove the desired holes and create 2 holes for the speaker plugs

Geometry: Edit/Surface/Remove Hole Under Inner Loop List select all of the desired holes, the eight tooling holes and the two holes for the speaker plugs Select the trimmed surface

Illustrated above is the computer panel surface after all the tooling holes and speaker plug holes have been removed.

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Create the speaker plug holes using a smaller radius

Geometry: Edit/Surface/Add Hole Set the Option to Center Point Set Hole Radius to 2.0 Use Surface 1 for Surface Use the following center points

[239 25 0] , [251 25 0]

Click on Apply

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Mesh the model

Elements: Create/Mesh/Surface Set the Elem Shape, Mesher, and Topology to Quad, Paver, and Quad4, respectively Enter an appropriate GEL for the model(around 2.5 or so) Determine the quality of the elements

Finite Elements: Verify/Quad/All

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