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It can generate fair mid-plane geometry even in very complicated 3D geometry like a plastic molding part.
It is a common technique to extract midplanes from a solid model in order to shorten the solver calculation time. However, even though the solver time is shortened, the midplane extraction itself was considerably time consuming, and CAE vendors all over the world have been trying to improve its efficiency. The new midplane extraction function developed by TechnoStar uses a different method from the traditional functions. Traditional functions, including our own, were mostly unable to fully automatically extract midplanes.
It is especially noteworthy that faces are combined complexly in an actual solid model, and in most cases, manual corrections were needed for missing faces, poor mating, or mistakes in thickness measurements after automatic midplane extraction.
Many users believed that the overall time required for analysis will be actually shorter by extracting the midplanes manually, instead of correcting errors of automatic extraction results. This is why the automatic midplane function has not become familiar until now.
TechnoStar's new function performs all operations automatically, from CAD data to mesh generation. Traditaional problems, such as missing faces, poor mating, or mistakes in thickness measurements do not exist. Also, midplanes can be extracted even if the CAD data includes some flaws.
This new function from TechnoStar can be used to drastically improve our efficiency in strength, vibration, impact and resin flow analyses.
 Introducing the New Midplane Function in TSV-Pre(PDF)
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