Mesh methods producing hybrid meshes include Hex-Dominant, Multizone with certain Details settings, and Inflation. A hybrid mesh could contain solid elements with a mix of hexahedral (brick shape with 6 quadrilateral faces), pyramid (four-sided base with four three-sided faces), and tetrahedral (four three-sided faces) elements.

Workbench has meshing methods that create a hybrid mesh in selected bodies. This article illustrates how to detect and act on the two element types found in a hybrid-meshed body such as can result with a Hex-Dominant meshing method, a Multizone meshing method or Inflation. In short, this enables detecting hybrid meshing in APDL via Mechanical with ease.

Industrial Equipment and Rotating MachineryĪnsys Workbench Mechanical | Body, Connection, Solver & PostprocessingĪnsys Mechanical (Workbench) supports the presence of APDL commands in the Outline so that user-programmed commands will act on a model at the Body, Connection, Solver or Postprocessing stage of an Ansys job running from the ds.dat file generated by the Mechanical SOLVE command.

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you will need a named selection of the concrete bodies that you wish to change. To do many elements at once, insert a snippet in the analysis environment with the following. Solid 65 is an archived element type so the only way to modify this is through command snippets. With this command snippet the solve would fail, as reinforcing elements do not have the same shape (number of nodes) as link elements. I also noticed in your first picture that Model Type is set to Reinforcement. You can then also create a new material in engineering data that has the material properties (Modulus, Poissons, and biliniear isotropic hardening) that are in your script and apply that material to the links You can set Model Type to Link/Truss and this acheives the same thing as specifying LINK180.

Your command snippet is nothing but changing the element type to links, and then specifying a material property.

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