Meshing sectioning and details

[lmarcos]

Hi!

Just I wish to Review the elements type and size detail that CREO 2.0 Academic Edition has created and applied AutoGEM controls in the process of meshing. I could see the whole model but I have several parts inside the assembly of great interest (and I can´t view because are hidden by others parts). So I wish to see those internal parts and also to cut and see inside the different parts.

It seem simple but when I hide same parts disappears the mesh and if I section the model also.

Thanks for you help.

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[lmarcos]

Thanks for your comment, but if I wish to do that when I have the mesh in the assembly displayed, How can I hide same of the components to see the mesh in hided parts?

[mlindqvist · Accepted solution]

If I understand your question correctly, you want to look at the mesh of a specific part (hidden by other parts) before you run the analysis?

The way I wowuld do that is to mesh the inner part first, without meshing the outer part. When you use the AutoGem commant, do not mesh "All with properties". Instead, choose the option "Component volumes". Then pick the inner volume and mesh it. The result should look something like this:

The inner block is entirely inside the larger hollow cube. 

As far as I know, it is not possible to create a "section" to cut the mesh of the outer part, so that you can see what's inside the outer one.

You can of course cut the part with an extrude feature and mesh it for visualization purposes, but you will have to delete/suppress that feature before you run the analysis.

I have done this here below (outer part with meshed with shell elements:

[lmarcos]

Thanks for all your comments. Now I have the solution for my "Problem".