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Shell Definition by Selection of Faces

You can select faces of solid, sheet metal, and surface bodies to define them as shells.
The original bodies are excluded from analysis.

Right-click on a solid, surface, or sheet metal body in the Simulation study tree and select Define Shell by Selected Faces.

You can:


  • Mesh thin solid bodies as shells. When many thin solid bodies are in an assembly, you can save analysis time by defining them as shells. Shells are suitable for thin solid bodies, as they are two-dimensional elements.
  • Create multiple shell definitions for a surface or sheet metal body. You can assign different shell thicknesses and material properties to faces that belong to the same body. You can group the faces with common properties into separate subfolders in the study tree.

    The figure shows three different shell definitions created from a single surface body.

Parent topic: Mesh


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