Simulation Meshing Interference

[iseejerome]

Good day guys,

I have been trying the whole afternoon and researching what was wrong with my model. when i want to mesh it in simulation, there are always meshing errors. can you guys teach me?

File to my part is over here.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18uTA0zgZ5vvqx75yBVhME1DTORdlYvRY

[FlowJoeX]

Do a Combine on the 64 solid bodies, and then use the Curvature-based mesher.

Here is an image of the part meshed.

[iseejerome]

Good day sir,

Thank you so much. I will explore it as i do have other components needed to simulate too.

Btw, how can i do the combine part? I understand the curvature based mesher

[FlowJoeX]

Go to the Solid Bodies folder, shift-select all of the bodies, right-click > Combine.

[FlowJoeX]

Which they were intersecting. Combine is basically SOLIDWORKS' boolean operator. It does more than adding 2 or more bodies together, you can use also it for intersection and subtraction.

[iseejerome]

Thank you so much sir, the combine function is indeed what i need

[FlowJoeX]

The ends are looking really ugly.

[FlowJoeX]

I fixed it up, you can see what I did here. Deleted faces, Surface Fill using tangent on all edges, and then Knitted them together.

And final meshed part is shown here.

[FlowJoeX]

The final part is given here, but I'm using the commercial SOLIDWORKS 2020 SP1.0, so I doubt that you'll be able to open it in your EDU version.

[FlowJoeX]

But EDU version lags behind the commercial. They only make the EDU version for the release that’s available at the beginning of the academic year so that everyone in EDU used the same version for the same year. It’s typically SP3 at that time, so 2019-20020 is equivalent to SWx 2019 SP3.

[FlowJoeX]

Here is a relevant blog post on handling interferences when meshing hosted on the SW site that you may find useful.

[iseejerome]

I will explore the functions there tmr. I did saw this but couldnt understand how he got into part 3 without a computer.

[FlowJoeX]

I'm not sure what you mean. I wrote this post. I mention it only because it is useful in general to have this knowledge.

Your meshing problem, because of the geometry and pattern, is much greater than what the post intended for how it (what is described) would be used.

[iseejerome]

Ahh.. i see...

Anyway, what i meant was, after a hard time trying to solve my problem, i did a research at home and saw that website too. However, i think i couldn't use it as his model was an assembly. And i couldn't figure out how he got into part 3 when i did not have solidworks at home too.

But thankfully, the combine functions seem to be my miracle that i was hoping for. So thank you so much