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Subject: Re: How to mesh --- Please help!
Author: Xiao Gong
Date: 1998-12-17 09:45:00

The quick and dirty way might be: divided your hollow cylinder into several
parts and then mesh it.

X. (Shawn) Gong, Ph.D.
Design Analyst
Sulzer Carbomedics Inc.
1300 East Anderson Lane
Austin, TX 78752
(Office) 512-435-3566
(FAX) 512-435-3700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tham [SMTP:cstham@f...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 1:29 AM
> To: xansys@o...
> Subject: [xansys] How to mesh --- Please help!

> From: Tham

> Hi,

> Im trying to mesh a hollow cylinder , with the outer radius is 203 mm and
> thickness 7.1 mm, the length of the column is 4010 mm. I managed to model
> the column using Ansys build-in modelling tools (hollow cylinder), but
> when
> I tried to mesh it (after selecting the solid92 element and entering the
> material properties), it hangs most of the time. Then, I try to set the
> mesh to coarser (Im using smart meshing tool), and finally Ansys managed
> to
> mesh the cylinder but with huge number of elements and nodes! (more than
> 100,000).

> So, the question is what should i do to reduce the elemnet size? I tried
> to
> set the element size coarser by using the global size but still can't mesh
> it properly.

> Thanks in advance.

> Rgds,
> Clement Tham

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