Installation and to get a student license

[Installation and to get a student license]

I believe when you start up CAESES, there is an option for student license.  Once you click that, you will be asked to upload proof of being a student.  After a few hours to a day, they will give you a student license. This was how it was a year ago, so it might have changed.

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I had a similar problem.  You can try to unlock the license by signing into the licensing system in the main website.  If that doesn't work or you don't have a license, I contacted customer support and they sorted it out the next day (there is a 12 hour difference from CAESES and where I live).

[Closing Brep Surfaces]

Hi Carsten,

 

Thank you for your work. I see that you packaged the profile and translations into a feature definition.  Is the fillet surface strictly necessary to close the BREP.  Also, when mirroring the BREP to use in a CFD simulation (A UDF with non symmetrical movement will be used), how does that effect the fin surface since it was modeled as a whole surface instead of half.  Thank you again for your time.

Michael

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Hi Karsten,

 

I tried your procedure above, but I still get the same error.  I recently upgraded to Linux on one of my computers and not sure if the different OS might have caused it.  I tried both procedures listed in your link for both windows and linux with no success.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

 

Michael

[Closing Brep Surfaces]

Hi Carsten,

 

I am trying to combine the fish body with the caudal fin.  I've swept a NURBS curve to create the caudal fin.  I can close the brep caudal fin with a close non-planar holes command, but the surface comes out weird.  I would like to have the model as one solid body so I can perform CFD. 

 

My ideas are to either create a surface on the x-z plane with the caudal fin curves as the edges so it closes the surface. Or try a lofted surface or even just an extruded surface in my shape with a fillet for the incident edge.I will be mirroring these Breps during simulation so I only need half of it. For reference, I am including a model of the last idea which seems the easiest to implement.  I would like to use the NACA blade profile for the fins though. Thank you for your help.

 

Michael

fishBody2.fdbc

[Closing Brep Surfaces]

I am having a problem closing the caudal fin of a fish model.  I would like to create a single solid model so that I can tests different parameters to identify an optimal body shape for different swimming conditions. The body was created and I created the caudal fin sweep.  I'm modeling half of the fish and will mirror for the output to Ansys. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advanced. The file is attached now.

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Michael Coe

fishBody.fdbc

[Dual Outlet Diffuser Duct]

Hi Ceyhan,

 

Thank you so much for your help. So am I correct in thinking that you need to have a closed surface before using the union command? I will definitely learn from this.  Take care.

 

Michael

[Dual Outlet Diffuser Duct]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to create a duct with dual outlets and diffuser capabilities.  I have followed the swept duct tutorial and created the general parametric geometry I am looking for.  The problem I am having is that I want the two mirror image parts to intersect as an open channel.  I have tried solid from intersection, boolean operations, but to no success.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sweepDuct.fdbc

[Dual Outlet Diffuser Duct]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to create a duct with dual outlets and diffuser capabilities.  I have followed the swept duct tutorial and created the general parametric geometry I am looking for.  The problem I am having is that I want the two mirror image parts to intersect as an open channel.  I have tried solid from intersection, boolean operations, but to no success.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.