Week 3 - 2D meshing for sheet metal
- Geometry checks were performed on both the hood and housing parts and all the errors were fixed prior to proceeding with the model
- The Midsurface extraction in one shot using the feature angle of 45 deg select option for both the hood and the housing parts
- In both the hood and housing parts only one half of the model was used (by deleting the other symmetric half) to take advantage of symmetry in the models.
- Geometric cleanup was done for the housing part in all the complex fillet regions and an average perimeter length and macro element length of 3 mm was taken for meshing the housing parts.
- After reflection 69404 quads (94.33 %), 4173 trias (5.67 %) and 1336 off elements (1.82 %) were obtained in the housing after meshing
- For the hood an average perimeter length and macro element length of 5 mm was taken for meshing.
- For the hood after reflection 47916 quads (98.92 %), 524 trias (1.08 %) and 16 off elements (0.03 %) were obtained.
- Finally a thickness of 0.75 in the PIDS for the shells created were assigned and the visualization was enabled in the quality criteria (presentation parameters draw shell as solid)
- Please find attached the compressed file of the Final Ansa Part