Create Stiffener Mesh
Use Stiffener Mesh tool to create 1D elements as shell stiffeners from orphan lines representing trailing edges.
- Bar2/3
- Rods
- Free lines (orphan lines): represents trailing edges location. This is common input from CAD tools. Free lines seed nodes on shell edges within a tolerance from lines and auto orients/offsets beams.
- Surface edges: generates stiffeners conforming shell edges on selected surface edges. If surface edges are not meshed with adjacent shells, no stiffeners will be created. For these instances, use Member Mesh instead.
- Shell elements: generates stiffeners on each edge of selected shells with a provision to add diagonals (non conformal mesh).
- Nodes: Creates a stiffener between node paths along shell edges. It always conforms to adjacent shell edges. Free nodes are skipped.
- ROD engineering config only keeps PROD property card image.
- Elements are created as CROD elements with PROD property.
- Property selector filters only existing PROD properties.
- BEAM engineering config keeps only PBAR/PBARL and PBEAM/PBEAML.
- Elements are created either as CBAR or CBEAM elements based on the property card.
- Property selector filters based on the selected card.
- If a beam section is selected, a property is created with the selected card image.
- ROD engineering config:
- Property selector filters only existing properties.
- With card image SECTYPE.
- With referenced Section entity with card LINK.
- If beam section is selected:
- Section entity is created with config LINK with area copied from the beam sections area.
- Property entity created with card SECTYPE and refers to the Section entity.
- Elements are created with ET LINK180.
- Property selector filters only existing properties.
- BEAM engineering config:
- Property selector filters only existing properties.
- With card image SECTYPE.
- With referenced Section entity with card BEAM.
- If beam section is selected:
- Section entity is created with config BEAM with reference to beam section.
- Property entity created with card SECTYPE and refers to the Section entity.
- Elements are created with ET BEAM188 or BEAM189.
- Property selector filters only existing properties.