I am currently using ANSYS for teaching UG students. I want to show how it
is often better to use shells and beams rather than the full 3D model
transferred from CAD. However I can find no easy way of obtaining (shell)
mid-planes and (tube/beam) centre lines from a 3D CAD model. It seems
rather pointless to generate the shell and bean geometry from scratch if a
full 3D CAD model already exists. The CAD package they use is SolidEdge. If
anyone could give me any steer on this I would be very grateful.
Many thanks
Andrew
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