Shareing the snapshots of my work.

Coreform Cubit
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Bandage_bolt
Bandage_bolt956×382 32.2 KB

Bracket1
Bracket1548×647 30.3 KB

Lifitng_beam1_meshed
Lifitng_beam1_meshed1378×539 17.2 KB

Lifting_beam_meshed
Lifting_beam_meshed1391×603 28.8 KB

Lifting_beam1
Lifting_beam1982×380 12.5 KB

Lug_with_Pin
Lug_with_Pin450×588 22.2 KB

Pin_joint
Pin_joint516×655 23.8 KB

Structure_beam
Structure_beam1120×288 17.9 KB

Structure_beam_meshed
Structure_beam_meshed1418×339 49 KB

Test_jig
Test_jig1038×423 9.77 KB

support_bracket
support_bracket708×636 14.4 KB

My work has been primitive and mainly for analysing the correlation between theoretical calculation methods FEM calculations.

Thank you .:relaxed:

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#2

Hi @Saviind,
thanks for sharing your work with us!

Have you somewhere shared your analytical and numerical calculations?
With which Software did you run your simulations?

#3

Hello Norbert,

I am using less popular but economical simulation packages like Mecway or PrePoMax for structural numerical analysis. Both these tools are using Calculix as a primary solver for simulations.

Best Regards
Sarvesh

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#4

Nice! I’ve used Mecway a few times (been a while though) and I’m a huge fan of both PrePoMax and Calculix!

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#5

Hello Norbert,
Meshed Aluminium holder and FEM load solution solved with PrePoMax.

holder
holder983×485 60.9 KB

holder_FEM
holder_FEM949×528 244 KB

Best Regards
Sarvesh

#6

Mecway and Prepomax are great tools. I used them a lot.

Did you export the mesh as abaqus .inp from cubit?

If you are using CalculiX as your main solver then you could take a look at my open source project.
It’s a component to make cubit a full preprocesser for calculix with result conversion for postprocessing in paraview. I am currently working on the windows build which is nearly done, so right now only a linux build is available.

image
image1834×1039 198 KB

example

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#7

Thanks for sharing @Norbert_Hofbauer
It’s looking pretty amazing. I did not use Abaqus .inp export from Cubit. I will definitely check out your open source project for using Cubit as a full pre-processor for CalculiX. The result conversion for ParaView sounds particularly useful. Looking forward to the Windows build!

Thanks

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#8

Nice meshes, thanks for sharing!

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#9

Thanks, Norbert, for sharing your valuable work. It’s inspiring. Looking forward to the Windows version.
I generally export my meshes in two different file formats, either .inp or .unv, depending on my requirements.

PrePoMax handles the meshes from these two file formats a bit differently.
With .inp (Abaqus format), each segmented part of the model is assumed to be an individual part appearing distinctly in the model tree. It is very cumbersome to manage it for a single part.

Mesh_impornt_inp
Mesh_impornt_inp1212×773 272 KB

On the contrary, when importing the same part in.unv format, all segmented meshes are collated into one part, which makes analysing a single part easier.

Mesh_impornt_unv
Mesh_impornt_unv1236×727 255 KB

Whereas Mecway allows mesh manipulation within the tool itself; therefore, it is neutral to both these file formats.
(Example from Mecway with .unv import)

image
image1128×899 87.7 KB

Best Regards
Sarvesh

#10

Thank you Matt and Greg for your encouragement. :pray:

Best Regards
Sarvesh

#11

This looks like you forgot to create a block and add the volumes to it.
If you just do a abaqus export without creating blocks, a block or elset for every volume will be created on export. Prepomax imports every single elset and creates a part in the model tree for it.

#12

Ohh… Great, thanks for this hint, Norbert. :grinning:

Best Regards
Sarvesh