Hello everybody,

I am new at Pro/Mechanica, and i am performing lot of FEA for the company i am

working at the moment, in the past i have used Abaqus and Patran/nastran.

Is any way that I can control the dimension of the elements in autogen? how do i
fix the shape of the elements that i want to use?

I am using Pro/E wildfire 2 for modelling, and pro/mechanica for FEA.

Thanks

Posted: 03 June 2005 at 7:04am | IP Logged

Not having used Patran..etc I'm not positive but with linked Mechanica I don't
think AutoGEM gives you the level of control you want.

Here is what you can do - AutoGEM/Settings/Setting Tab, here you can define the
element types you want it to use globally (Quad, Tri for shell, Brick Wedge, Tetra
for Solids). But this is a global setting.

I don't think you can control the actual dimensions of the elements but
within AutoGEM/Setting/Limits Tab you can widen/narrow the max allowable
angles, widening the range reduces the element count and vice versa.

The other thing you can do if you want a finer mesh only in a particular area is to
use datum curves to force AutoGEM to create a finer mesh in an appropriate area.
You have to select the option AutoGEM/Use Datum Curves.

Hope this helps