ANSYS Workbench Meshing

[baselbrush]

Hi all,

I am a novice trying to get to grips with working in Ansys workbench 12.0.

The model is of a bridge; shell elements making up the deck portion with solid elements at the support points.

I am having difficulty finding out how to co-ordinate the mesh at boundary lines between bodies (so that meshes coincide!), either surface to surface or surface to solid. The way one regulates this with workbench isn't readily apparent.

Any guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks.

 

[PriamEngineering]

Workbench will assume bonded contact at shell/solid intersections and the mesh will not normally be continuous. I have never done a continuous mesh in WB but have done lots in Ansys classic using Booleans.

http://www.priamengineering.co.uk

 

[baselbrush]

Thanks for your response. The concept of bonded intersections has just been explained to me! Thanks again.

 

[flash3780]

Chopping things up in workbench is easy using the "slice" command in design modeler. In order to glue them back together to make a continuous mesh, you'll select all of the parts you want to glue together, right click, and select "form new part".

Workbench makes it easy to flip between the mesher and the model to chop things up as necessary. All-and-all, it's pretty good.

 

[seymours2571]

flash has it right use the form new part command in DM...however a conformal mesh between surface bodies and solid bodies (i.e. shells and solids) is not possible until version 12.1 from what I have seen. Solid to solid conformal mesh, however, works just fine in 12.0.