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Subject: Re: top down model associativity
Author: Dan Bohlen
Date: 1999-01-14 09:58:00

I must have missed the message on how to create a volume from a tet
mesh. Can someone repost or let me know the thread subject to check the
archives. Can it be done with a brick mesh?

Dan

"Don L. Shaffer;(W)439-5308;101-1W08" wrote:

> From: "Don L. Shaffer;(W)439-5308;101-1W08"

> Hello,

> Reading in the user manual the description says
> the user may create the model from the bottom
> up or from the top down. I want to create the
> nodes and elements; then create the associativity
> to created full volumes, areas, lines and keypoints.

> How to do this without creation of a specific macro
> is my question. I have seen the message about
> making the volumes from tets. But does ANSYS have
> the user capability to create the association of a set
> of nodes say to an assembly of lines, areas, keypoints, etc.
> This would allow the use of geometry for placing the loads.

> Would like to hear opinions whether this is good/bad.

> Don Shaffer
> Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
> Orlando, Florida

Dan Bohlen Phone: (513) 243-4645 / Dial Comm [8*332-4645]
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