Hi Guys
I am currently working on surfaces from Inventor. Inventor is unable to stich the surfaces together for the purpose of creating a continuous mesh for FEA. I have tried a few things in Salome to fix the geometry however I have not been successful. I have tried stitching geometry and gluing.
Please refer to the attached simplified .step file, can someone please provide some guidance
MODEL5 MULTIPLE SURFCACE 1.stp (17.7 KB)
on how to unit the surfaces.
hello,
what do you mean by unite the surfaces?
the ‘cleannest’ form of this geometry would be to explode it into faces and then fuse them together. but if what you want is a continous face, you can not achieve this geometrically as you need edges in the intersections between the faces of the square and the other faces
Hi Franco
I would like to have the stiffeners united to the box so that the mesh connected (not sure how to explain this differently).
I am new to Salome, I am just trying to repair geometry since our CAD package cannot provide adequate geometry for finite element purposes. The attached .step file can be meshed with the stiffeners separated from the body (the box). I am hoping to rectify this issue in Salome.
okey, so yes, you do what i mention:
import in geom the step file
explode the object into faces
select all exploded faces and fuse them together
or
import in geom the step file
repair/glue edges (theoretically should give the same result)
then you can mesh the shell created. check some youtube tutorials on salome on how to mesh it.