[Procyon]

Heyho everyone,

this might be a stupid question but I have no success in setting up a preiodicy. Even a very simple test case does not work:

1. I created an empty project
2. Geometry, create points:
   for the rotational axis (X)
   0, 0, 0
   200, 0, 0
   
   for the first rotational periodicy surface (from axis to Y)
   0, 100, 0
   200, 100, 0
   
   for the second rotational periodicy surface (from axis to Z)
   0, 0, 100
   200, 0, 100
3. Geometry, create curves: one axis curve, two parallel to the axis curve (moved to Y and Z, respectively), two arcs, 4 from axis start/end to the parallel curves
4. Geometry, create surfaces: one inlet, one outlet, one wall, two periodic surfaces (just a quarter of a pipe ...)
5. Build diagnostic topology with inherit part turned on, method: all parts
   Output:
   24 vertices merged, merge tol = 0.100000
   0 curves concatenated
   0 curves merged
   0 points created intersecting curves
   0 edges concatenated
   0 surfaces merged
6. define rotational periodicity:
   user defined by angle
   base: 0 0 0
   axis: 1 0 0 ( in x direction)
   angle: 90 (unit is degrees?)
7. compute surface mesh with autosizing
8. edit mesh / check mesh
   only periodic problems checked
   elements to check: all
   Output: There is no periodicity defined in the mesh

What have I done wrong? The same happens if I create a material point in the volume.

Please don't tell me to "read the help/do the tutorials". I read the help, and I will read it again if you point me to the right help page. I have only found two ICEM tutorials in the Ansys customer center, but they don't address my problems.

In this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/mai...city-icem.html I read that the periodic faces have to be in the same part, but this is true for my test case.

Bye,
Procyon