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The swage mesh allows you to easily create swages/beads in shell meshes by selecting points on a Shell or a Shell Node.
The swage panel shows the section view of the intended swage mesh and explans the basic parameters required to create the swage mesh.
You can also adjust any of the parameters if required. When you are happy with the properties pressing
Sketch
will see a preview of the mesh that PRIMER will create.
Outline
will only show the outline of the proposed mesh.
Auto Update
is a toggle button that automatically updates the sketch of the swage mesh whenever any of the swage mesh parameters or the options values are changed.
To actually create the swage and remesh press
Apply
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Pick pts.
is the toggle button to switch ON/OFF the points selection to define the path of the swage on the shell mesh.
Auto PID
automatically takes the PART ID of the new swage mesh from the shell element on which the first swage path point is selected.
The swage mesh is created along the NORMAL direction of the shell elements on which the swage path points are selected.
Reverse
button reverses the direction of the swage.
Element Pitch
is the element size along the length of the swage path.
Auto El. Size
button automatically sets the mesh element sizes for the swage mesh as the "average" element size of the original shell mesh.
The
SIDE ends
of the swage mesh can be three different types of shapes:
CHAMFERED
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SLANTED
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VERTICAL
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Also the
SIDE
surfaces for the swage mesh can be created with these two methods:
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FREE: Creates a free shell mesh using average element sizes specified for the side edges.
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STRUCTURED: Creates a regular shell mesh with well defined edges along the side surfaces.
The original shell mesh is remeshed up to the distance from the swage mesh defined by
Remesh Distance.
The remeshed shells selection is restricted by break angle between normals of the adjacent shells defined by the
Break Angle
.
Add Remesh
and
Remove Remesh
can be used to alter the selection of shells to be remeshed on the original shell mesh if required.
The element size for the remeshed shell mesh is defined by
Remesh Length
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Save Settings
button saves the current parameters and options values defined in the swage mesh panel to the preferences file.
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