Week - 5 - 2D meshing for Plastic components

AIM:

To create a 2D meshing on the given PLASTIC MATERIAL-BOTLLE CAP. 

PROCEDURE:

• First, we separate each element as the bottle cap has different thicknesses in each element.

• Then I give the proper perimeter and Macro length as 1.

• I check for geometry and removed the cons.
• We need to create a mid-surface for all materials in the bottle caps using different commands. Each element has a different thickness, like Threads, Taper region, Fin extension and circular faces. 
  • FACE
    • MIDDLE-SINGLE
    • MIDDLE-MULTI
    • CURVE-MIDDLE
    • CON-PROJECT
    • FACE-NEW(Using coons and fitted)

     

• Now I apply quality mesh parameters to all the materials.
• Next, We need to create a mess on the mid-surface of each material on the hood.

• After creating the mesh on the mid-surface, we have to check the mesh for each material in the bottle cap and try to reduce the tri elements and off elements using the following commands.
  • Split
  • Swap
  • Join
  • Smooth
  • Reconstruction.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. I learned about various commands used in the ANSA for geometry clean-up, mid-surface generation and messing.
2. I learned how to use the swap, split and join commands to reduce the tri elements in a mess.

CONCLUSION:

                2-D Mesh on the given plastic materials(bottle cap) is created.