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  1. livna

    Applying SOLID285 in Workbench

    Hi, Thanks but I have tried that before and it didn't work. I have accidentally managed to get it to use 285 by using a hyperelastic material model as opposed to a normal hookean. Not sure why this would make a difference though.
  2. livna

    Applying SOLID285 in Workbench

    How would I check? I've made them my using a mesh control, I selected tetrahedrons for method with patch conforming algorithm and I've dropped midside nodes? There's a different mesh too that I'm importing from matlab that is definitely tetrahedral and I even save it as a prep7 command which...
  3. livna

    Applying SOLID285 in Workbench

    Hi all, I have a mesh of 4-node tet elements which ANSYS automatically uses SOLID185 for. I have tried using the command "et,1,285" but I keep getting this error; *** ERROR *** CP = 3.198 TIME= 18:01:58 Element type 1 is not the same shape as SOLID285...

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