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surfaces on the solid. OK. c) In the Mid-Surface Tolerance box, click Measure Distance icon (or Ctrl+D) to enable measuring distance
d) When the Locate Define Location to
Measure From box is displayed choose Method to On Point, select one of the points on the thickest edge of the sold, than press OK to confirm the selection of the first point.
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confirm the selection. f) Press OK to accept the calculated distance, in the Mid-Surface Tolerance dialog box. Femap will now extract the mid-surfaces.
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Mid-surfaces group
a) In the Model Info window, first confirm
that Highlighting is enabled. b) Select the Group object 1..Midsurfaces in the Model Info window. This will highlight the newly created group. 4. Since we are only working with a single part, you
select Delete from the context-sensitive menu. b) Expand the Geometry object tree, select the first solid, 1..Bracket, and using the context-sensitive menu, Delete the part.
c) Expand the view if needed with the Ctrl+A
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at the end of the rib as the lines to trim with. Press OK to complete the trimming operation.
Note:
A better method to trim the rib would be to select the edge on the top of the rib instead of the edge on the small tab closest to the end of the bracket. Selecting the top edge would have eliminated the need to use the Extend Surface command in Step 8.
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sheet solids. Note the curves at the intersection of the mid-surfaces. b) Select the Geometry, Solid, Cleanup then Select All the solids and OK. c) In the Solid Cleanup dialog box, check the Remove Redundant Geometry option on. Press OK to complete the removal of intersecting curves on the three sheet solids. Note how the intersecting curves have been removed.
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wall as the curve to extend and press OK. c) In the Surface Extend Options dialog box, set theExtend Shape option to Linear, set the Extend to option to Solid and select the surface of the side wall closet to the rib. Then press OK to complete operation. 9. Re-intersect the mid-surfaces
a) Select the command, Geometry, Midsurface, Intersect.
b) Select the five (5) sheet solids representing the mid-surfaces. Note how
the intersect operation command you just ran created the intersections between the trimmed mid-surfaces.
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All the surfaces and press OK. Assign the material to the surfaces when the Define Material ISOTROPIC dialog box is opened. Press the Load button to open up the default material library. Select one of the Aluminum materials and press OK, OK in the Material dialog box and press NO for Consolidate by Thickness In Property object tree in the Model Info window there are now six (6) properties that reflect the six surfaces that make up the mid-surface model. Review the properties in the Entity Editor window. You can always reassign the properties to different surfaces
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set the Selector Entity to Surface and Selector Mode to Select Multiple. b) Select all the surfaces.
c) In the Model Info window,
right-click the Surfaces (6) object and select Mesh Size from the context-sensitive menu.
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Max Angle Tolerance to 15, Max Elem on Small Feature to 6, Max Size of Small Feature to 0.1 and press OK
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surfaces on the right-side end plate of the part. b) Right-click the Surfaces(s) selection and run Constraint and Create Constraint Set c) In the Create Constraints on Geometry dialog box set the constraint to Surface and check the Sliding along Surface (Symmetry) check box. d) Press OK to create the constraint.
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toolbar, set the Selector Entity type to Curves and select the eight (8) arcs representing the holes in the right-side end plate. b) Again, using the context-sensitive menu for Curves (8) object in the Model Info window, create a Fixed constraint on the two curves. c) Toggle off the Selector Entity icon and clear selection list using the Selector Clear All icon on View toolbar.
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nodes for the Rigid Spider, change the Methods to on Curve and select the two curves on one of the two holes. e) Repeat those steps for the second hole.
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