978-1-58503-397-3 -- ANSYS 11 Workbench Tutorial

® ™ANSYS Workbench Tutorial Structural & Thermal Analysis using the ANSYS Workbench Release 11.0 Environment Kent L. Lawrence Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Texas at Arlington SDC PUBLICATIONS Schroff Development Corporation www.schroff.com www.schroff-europe.com Solid Modeling Fundamentals 1-1 Chapter 1 Copyrighted Solid Modeling Material Fundamentals 1-1 OVERVIEW Copyrighted A simple L-shaped cross section is used to introduce basic solid modeling concepts with ANSYS DesignModeler. These tutorials explore solid modeling by: Material ♦Extruding ♦Revolving ♦Sweeping A number of additional parametric, feature-based modeling possibilities and formulations are demonstrated in this chapter. Copyrighted 1-2 INTRODUCTION Solid modeling can be accomplished in a number of ways, and one favorite method Material involves starting with a two-dimensional shape and manipulating it to create a solid. That is the approach we will use for many of the object models created in this book. Figure 1-1 shows an L-shaped cross section that has been variously extruded, revolved, or swept along a curve to produce the solid object models shown. Copyrighted Material 1-2 Solid Modeling Fundamentals Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material Figure 1-1 Extruding, revolving, sweeping an L-shaped section. In the following we use this simple L-shaped ...