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Gid is a preand post-processing system for computer analysis in science and engineering. Ii Chapters Pag. 1 to iii. Creation and meshing of a line, surface and volume. Generating the mesh for the new design.

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GiD User Manual

Gid is a preand post-processing system for computer analysis in science and engineering. Ii Chapters Pag. 1 to iii. Creation and meshing of a line, surface and volume. Generating the mesh for the new design.

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GiD The universal, adaptative and user friendly pre and post processing system for computer analysis in science and engineering User Manual Table of Contents Chapters 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 User interface 1.2 Models used in this manual 2 INITIATION TO GiD 2.1 First steps 2.2 Creation and meshing of a line 2.3 Creation and meshing of a surface 2.4 Creation and meshing of a volume 3 IMPLEMENTING A MECHANICAL PART 3.1 Working by layers 3.1.1 Defining the layers 3.1.2 Creating two new layers 3.2 Creating a profile 3.2.1 Creating a size-55 auxiliary line 2 Dividing the auxiliary line near "point" (coordinates (40, 0) ) 3 Creating a 3.8-radius circle around point (40, 0) 4 Rotating the circle -3 degrees around a point 5 Rotating the circle 36 degrees around a point and copying it 6 Rotating and copying the auxiliary lines 7 Intersecting lines 8 Creating an arc tangential to two lines 9 Translating the definitive lines to the "profile" layer 10 Deleting the "aux" layer 11 Rotating and obtaining the final profile 12 Creating a surface 3.3 Creating a hole in the mechanical part 3.3.1 Creating a hole in the surface of the mechanical part 3.4 Creating volumes from surfaces 3.4.1 Creating the "prism" layer and translating the octagon to this layer 3.4.2 Creating the volume of the prism 3.4.3 Creating the volume of the wheel 3.5 Generating the mesh 3.5.1 Generating the mesh by default 3.5.2 Generating the mesh with assignment of size around points 3.5.3 Generating the mesh with assignment of size around lines 3.6 Optimizing the design of the mechanical part 3.6.1 Modifying the profile 3.6.2 Modifying the profile of the hole 3.6.3 Creating the volume of the new design 3.7 Generating the mesh for the new design Pag. 14 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 26 28 28 29 30 a1 a1 32 33 34 34 34 36 37 37 39 41 42 43 45 45 46 Table of Contents 3.7.1 Generating a mesh for the new design by default 3.7.2 Generating a mesh using "Chordal Error” 4 IMPLEMENTING A COOLING PIPE 4.1 Working by layers 4.1.1 Creating two new layers 4.2 Creating the auxiliary lines 4.2.1 Creating the axes 4.2.2 Creating the tangential center 4.3 Creating a component part 4.3.1 Creating the profile 4.3.2 Creating the volume by revolution 4.3.3 Creating the union of the main pipes 4.3.4 Rotating the main pipe 4.3.5 Creating the end of the pipe 4.4 Creating the T junction 4.4.1 Creating one of the pipe sections 4.4.2 Creating the other pipe section 4.4.3 Creating the lines of intersection 4.4.4 Deleting surfaces and lines 4.4.5 Closing the volume 4.5 Importing the T junction to the main file 4.5.1 Importing a GiD file 4.5.2 Creating the final volume 4.6 Generating the mesh 4.6.1 Generating the mesh using Chordal Error 4.6.2 Generating the mesh by assignment of sizes on surfaces 5 ASSIGNING ELEMENT SIZES 5.1 Introduction 5.1.1 Reading the initial project 5.2 Element-size assignment methods 5.2.1 Assignment using default options 5.2.2 Assignment around points 5.2.3 Assignment around lines 5.2.4 Assignment on surfaces 5.2.5 Assignment with Maximum Chordal Error 5.3 Rjump mesher 5.3.1 RJump default options 5.3.2 Force to mesh some entity 6 METHODS FOR MESH GENERATION 6.1 Introduction 6.1.1 Reading the initial project 6.2 Types of mesh 6.2.1 Generating the mesh by default 6.2.2 Generating the mesh using circles and spheres 6.2.3 Generating the mesh using points 47 47 49 49 50 50 50 52 53 53 56 87 58 58 60 60 61 61 62 63 63 64 64 65 65 66 69 69 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 76 78 83 83 83 84 85 86 87

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