[jalvathi]

Hello all.
I am doing surface wrapping with the help of ANSA. I am giving area refinement for specific PIDS and a general coarse mesh for the rest fo the volume where not much details are required. I need the inner volume of the car to be wrapped.

I have been running Octree wraps for the last three days and they seem to crash everytime or run in a long loop where I don´t know if they are running or they have crashed.

Can any of you please let me know, why surface wrapping in ANSA occurs in two phases? The minimum refinement I have used is 0.0003m and it is only in a much smaller part. The rear volume and the other parts have refinement of 0.01m.

I have also reduced the refinement a bit and tried to do the surface wrap. It worked fine, but right after when I try the same using a copy of the octree refinement, it simply doesn´t work.

Any help in this area will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.
Jalvathi

[Gerry Kan]

Dear Jalvathi:

I ran into a similar problem, and I could see ANSA wrapping stuck at a relatively low percentage (8% in my case) but the memory usage kept going up and up (however sometimes not).

I noticed that there are two issues:

1) My geometry has about 300 different non-intersecting entities. (Manually) assigning each entity to its own PID speeds up the self-proximity check immensely.

2) The geometry was about 2 x 2 km, and the geometry (STL) is represented in meters. When I scale it down to, say, mm, the wrapping goes through relatively quickly. Then I need to scale it back to meters afterwards.

I don't know if these situations apply to you, but for a vehicle in wind tunnel it could.

Hope this helps, Gerry.

[Gerry Kan]

Dear Jalvathi:

I dug a bit more deeply on this issue. This has to do with the length units used in the wrapping operation. This is always set to the system unit and is by default in millimeters. If your CAD model is in a different unit (say, meters), you should either change the model unit or the default unit to reflect that, so that the wrapping operation does not produce a surface mesh that is too fine or too coarse.

Gerry.

[rmaries]

Hi,

I didn't notice this query for long time. What Gerry said is partially right. It is due to units. Also one more thing we need to take care while wrapping is the min. length. I assume you are all using latest ansa versions, which uses octree method for wrapping. In this method if we give the min. length less than 1, then ansa may crash or take long time.
So always use the min.length greater than 1.

Best Regards
Maries

[Gerry Kan]

Originally Posted by rmaries

Also one more thing we need to take care while wrapping is the min. length. I assume you are all using latest ansa versions, which uses octree method for wrapping. In this method if we give the min. length less than 1, then ansa may crash or take long time.
So always use the min.length greater than 1.

I think the "1" here refers to "1mm", if you don't change the default units in ANSA. That's why the unit is very important. My model spans a few kms, and I can still wrap this with a minimum length of "0.01m" and the memory usage of ANSA is still reasonable for the wrapping operation.

Gerry.