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Subject: Re: How to mesh --- Please help!
Author: Dan Bohlen
Date: 1998-12-18 14:49:00

You might want to consider meshing and area and extruding out bricks
(stif 45's)

List request: I think it would be nice if folks would list their
affliation (company, university, etc. ) when posting.

Tham wrote:

> 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

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