Starting from a geometry model which includes solds in which there are curves, the workflow is as follows:
- If the curves touch the bounding surfaces of the solid, make those points mesh points
(Mesh / Mesh Control / Mesh Points on Surface...)
- Mesh the curves to create beam elements
- Mesh...
Femap's mesher has been able to acount for internal and branching faces and curves within a solid since version 10. A consistent mesh can be created exactly for this kind of example for beam elements within a solid tetra mesh...
When you are in the element Entity Selection dialog, click on the Pick ^ button and select By Faces... and a second Entity Selection dialog appears. Select the general group of elements that includes the subset of elements you eventually want to end up with, and click OK. Then in the subsequent...
Meshing is definitely on the Femap roadmap, and while we have some ideas about customer requirements and processes, we always welcome customer usage scenarios; they greatly help to direct development. Also regarding CAD integration, can you expand on what you would like to see?
I'm not sure if...
Data mapping that allows transfer of results data from one model to another with differing mesh density is not supported in the current version of Femap, or the version of Femap that is included in MSC.Nastran for Windows. However, it will be supported in the next release of Femap - version 9.2...
