Tool Test 1 ANSA

OBJECTIVE:

To mesh the given component as per the quality criteria given in the data and assigning thickness to it.

Quality Criteria:

S.No	Quality Criteria	Value
1	Target/Average length	4
2	Minimum Length	2
3	Maximum Length	6
4	Aspect	3
5	Warpage	15
6	Skewness	45
7	Jacobian	0.7
8	Minimum Quad Angle	45
9	Maximum Quad Angle	135
10	Minimum Tria Angle	30
11	Maximum Tria Angle	120
10	Tria Percentage	15

MODEL 1.

Geometry cleanup and Mid-surface extraction.

• A new .ansa file is opened and the .igs file of the given model is then imported on to the workpage.
• The model is then viewed in ENT( entity mode) from drawing style to check for any orientiation issues (Top portion should be gray and bottom to be yellow in colour) and if there is any issues its then corrected using Faces>Orient(tool)>visible.
• Turn on the Cross-hatches form Face draw so that surfaces can be selected easily.
• The pixel correction can be done using, Mesh module>Lenght (Perimeter=1, Macro=1). Its can be also done from Topo module using Auxillaries>fine.
• Since some parts are symmetrical (Checked using Faces>Rm.dbl), The meshing can be done to one of the half surface and then it been reflected to other side.
• The model is then subjected to geometry check up to find out any missing surfaces, free edges, duplicates etc. Tools tab>Checks>geometry>Execute.
• When check up was carried out, Ansa throwed out error messages, in which some of them can be fixed automatically and others were done manually using other tools.
• After the cleanup the thickness of the model is been measured from different portions.
• Mid-surface of the component is extracted using Faces>Offest or Faces>middle.
• For this model manual mid surface gave better result.
• The extracted mid-surface from the part can be seperated out using not, i-not, neighb etc from focus toolbar.
• A new property for extraceted mid-surfaces is then then created using Faces>Set PID>New>P-shell.
• Rename the card and measured thickness is then assigned to it.
• The material is then defined by putting tick mark to the defined box. Other parameters such as youngs modulus, shear modulus, poissons ratio were also enterd, If these values were not entered the software won't consider it as a real object while running simulations.
• Splitting of the surfaces is done accordingly to avoid the failure of elements while meshing and also to get good flow over the mesh.
• These can be done using tools from topology and mesh modules. Join tool from mesh module can be used to toggle off unnecessary single cons.
• If the new surfaces were created using Faces>New>Existing surf, the cons drawn on the surfaces can be removed permanently by using Faces>cut (Right click).
• To check wheather the mid-surface is perfectly captured, The transparency is turned ON for the given model from the property card and then viewing the model in PID (property) mode. Shadow option from drawing mode is also turned on for the better visibility.

Meshing.

• Meshing is done in mesh module and its turned on.

• The mesh parameter from untility is opened to enter the target element size, element type etc.

• Similarly the quality criteria option is also selected from the same toolbar and the values given as per the given data is then entered accordingly. From presentation parameter sub-option, check wheather the percentage element box is ticked also from detailed from demand effect drag the cursor towards all details.
• Now each splitted surfaces are meshed seperately using Mesh generation>Batch or Best.
• While meshing its better to capture the surfaces with the given target element size for those in fillet regions it can be meshed with mininum element lenght.
• While meshing it resulted in creation of lots trias and rotational quads which can be again remeshed using Shell mesh> Reconstruct.
• Presence of trias in critical areas such as fillets, cut out regions are not preferable and it can be draged off using split, paste tool etc.
• While using split (Mesh module>elements>split), polygonal option from feature selection toolbar can be used to drag off tria to long distance. Show only, highlight option from the same toolbar is further used for the selection as per the need.

• The elements can be arranged uniformly using smooth tool from shell mesh option and while using this tool some of the elements gets displaced from the splitted lines and these can projected on to those line using Grids>origin.
• Quality criteria applied can be viewed using Hidden view> Drawing styles, Where the elements gets highlated in diferent colours indicating the failures to respective criteria and correction has to be made further.

The thickness assigned to the model can be viewed using Utility>Quality criteria>Presentation parameter>Draw shell as solid.

MODEL 2.

The same procedure is followed for meshing the second model.

Since this model contains symmetricity, only half of the part is meshed and then its reflected to other side and pasting the cons using the topo tool.

Mid-surface

Meshed surface

RESULTS:

The given model is meshed sucessfully by following all the quality criteria given in the data and assigned thickness to it.

CONCLUSION:

Since the first model contained alot of features attached to each other and the given target size from quality index fails for some number of elements while meshing, Correction was made to the surfaces accordingly by increasing its height, lenght etc. In some areas the surfaces are been translated to a particular distance to avoid failure.

Even with this slight modification full quality criteria cannot be acieved. In this model, focused more on capturing the surfaces. Full qualtiy can be achieved by avoiding some near by attached surfaces or again playing with the dimensions. But further altering the dimension will distort and change the shape of the model.

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