Shell Meshing Ansys

[Dusentrieb]

Dear all,

I am new to this forum and Ansys, but no stranger to FEM; I have been using ABAQUS.
I was wandering if somebody could give me a hint about the post-processor?
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I am trying to create and mesh a tube with shell elements SHELL181.

(1) Does anybody know how to create a "pure" surface with an virtual thickness using the DM?
(I extruded a cylinder, and created a tube from this one using "create > thin/surface",
but it appears to be a solid).
(2) Using ABAQUS in the past, I was wandering how I could define the virtual thickness of a
section, in this case my tube?

(3) How do you create shell elements in ANSYS so far they were always solids.

Very simple questions...

 

[Dusentrieb]

Sorry, found the mistake myself... to simple...

Just define "zero thickness" using the "thin/surface" function in DM,
and then define a "virtual thickness" of the surface body in the MM.