Good morning,
I´m new here and try to simulate a mixed model with shells and solid parts. In the shell manager are all sheets listet which are going to mesh as shell.
Unfortunetly there is un error when I try to mesh the whole assembly: The thickness for one or more shells are not defined!
How can I find the shell which is not correctly definded?
Thank you
I suspect that you can't shell a multi-body.
Thank´s for your answers.
I didn´t find the failure but I solved the problem by starting a new study and put all conditions with drag&drop into the new study. Now it works properly. I don´t know why. Maybe it was a failure of the programm?!
You may find the following SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base (KB) solution useful:
Beyond that, in case all your shells do have a thickness assigned and the message is unexpected, you could try creating a new study from scratch (Simulation menu > Study), then drag and drop Connections, Fixtures, and External Loads (but not Parts) to the new study to test whether that overcomes the issue. Note that copying your existing study is unlikely to make a difference because if the existing Parts folder has some invalid/corrupt shell data, using the copy study command will just propagate it from the previous study. If you are not already using SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020, you could try in SOLIDWORKS 2020 SP1 - R&D made a code improvement recently to reduce false occurrences of this message.
As a side note, it is best to build your study gradually - it can be more difficult to troubleshoot a large model where your first attempt at study includes dozens of bodies. A good approach is to initially exclude all bodies except the bodies which have your primary grounding fixtures and their immediate neighbors. Apply only a gravity load, mesh with draft quality elements, and run to verify expected bonding. Use the FFEPlus solver with the soft springs option if needed to troubleshoot instability. Then, gradually include additional bodies, running the study periodically to make sure everything still looks good.
Hello,
In feature tree manager you can find all the parts.
Besides the part name you can find the thickness which has been defined, if it's not defined we can find it out with an easy.
I hope this helps!!!