[SOLVED] FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

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Roland
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[SOLVED] FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

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Dear Forum,

My FEM calculations misbehave.

This my input:
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This my output:
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Obviously, the L-profile is not attached to the bottom plate. How can I arrange that?

Part is a compound made from faces and wires:
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Part is invalid, says Part WB (I do not know what that exactly means):
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Do you have any clues for me?

Best regards,

Roland

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Re: FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

Post by Roland »

I found perhaps part of the answer.
To create a valid part: Select all, PartWB/Boolean/Union. This gives a Fusion that is "valid".

However, now FEM gives errors. I am analyzing this further, and shall revert soon.

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[SOLVED] Re: FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

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All solved. After the Union command was done and the geo was "valid", I made a FEM mistake of incomplete definitions of shell plate thickness.
The Union command increased the amount of shells. (which I overlooked).

Suggestion: There are multiple FEM wikis around, only one of them mentioned the need of Fusion. Compare:
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Manual: ... M_analyses
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/FEM_tutorial

Perhaps make this more uniform (I know ... time ...)

Thaks for this great software!

Roland
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Re: [SOLVED] Re: FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

Post by bernd »

Hi Roland,

welcome to FreeCAD FEM.
Roland wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:15 pm All solved. After the Union command was done and the geo was "valid", I made a FEM mistake of incomplete definitions of shell plate thickness.
The Union command increased the amount of shells. (which I overlooked).

Suggestion: There are multiple FEM wikis around, only one of them mentioned the need of Fusion. Compare:
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Manual: ... M_analyses
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/FEM_tutorial

Perhaps make this more uniform (I know ... time ...)
You could get wiki write permissions and just add what you have encountered.


cheers bernd
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Re: [SOLVED] FEM: elements do not stick together (invalid geometry?)

Post by Roland »

Thanks, Bernd, for the suggestion to give wiki write permissions.
However, at this stage I am not competent to make proper use of it.
In stead, let me propose some adaptations to the wikis, for others to consider and implement where needed.

Best regards,
Roland
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