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Created using Abaqus 6.12

In Abaqus/CAE you can create geometric faces that follow the contour of orphan element faces. As you add faces, Abaqus/CAE stitches new faces to any existing geometry to produce a shell part. When you are finished creating new faces, you can use the other tools in the Geometry Edit toolset to repair the geometry if needed. Each face is created as a separate feature, and you cannot edit the faces that you create from element faces. However, you can add new geometry features, create a solid from the shell part, suppress or delete the orphan mesh, and create a new mesh for the part.

The Mesh to Geometry tool is accessible from the Abaqus/CAE Part module: Tools > Geometry Edit: Face: From element faces

Narrated Video

The following video includes:

   - An introduction to creating geometry form orphan element faces (0-0:30)
   - a demonstration of the functionality (0:30 - 5:10)

This video was produced using Abaqus 6.12

Now you try it!

Download the attached file:  MeshToGeometry-Model-Abaqus612.zip

This file includes the example model shown in the demonstration. It also includes the written instructions in  MeshToGeometry -StepByStep-Abaqus612.pdf to help you create the grip geometry from an imported orphan mesh.

References

Reference slides: MeshToGeometry-reference-Abaqus612.pdf

Abaqus training class "Abaqus/CAE: Geometry Import and Meshing"

Abaqus Manual references:
---- "Creating geometry from orphan elements," Section 3.8 of the Abaqus 6.12 Release Notes
---- Abaqus/CAE 6.12 User's Manual:
   -- “Using the limiting angle, layer, and analytic methods to select multiple element faces,” Section 6.2.6
   -- “Creating a part from orphan elements,” Section 69.5
   -- “Create face from element faces,” Section 69.7.10

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