Scan-and-Solve for Rhino

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I guess it goes against the theory of how Scan-and-Solve works, but structures made out of bent and welded thin tubing aren't the most convenient sort of solids to make in Rhino, not at present anyhow. Any chance of some sort of...shortcut?

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There are two separate questions here: (1) What is the best way to create such solids in Rhino? and (2) Does Scan&Solve work on such solids?

As for the first question, I will let somebody else with more Rhino modeling experience to answer. I did notice that several users are transferring their models from SpaceClaim and even Solidworks ... For example, see the movie posted by William Tiu http://www.scan-and-solve.com/video/pressure-vessel-analysis

The answer to the second question is "yes", but you are right in that thin-walled shapes will require higher resolution to get accurate results. This would be true for any full-dimensional FEA solver, simply because may need several elements across the wall thickness for accuracy, leading to small elements on a large structure. Note however that with Scan&Solve, you can also do something else: use coarse resolution to get rough (inaccurate) results, and then see how these results are changing at different resolutions. This could allow you to identify the problem areas where you could do additional detailed analysis.
Hi James,

Any images of the sort of profiles and members you are referring to?

I'm assuming you're aware of the Geometry Gym plug-ins for modelling structure, if there's requests/suggestions I'm very happy to consider them.

Cheers,

Jon
Hi,

I'm talking about something like a tubular vehicle chassis, and what I am totally guessing is that you can do some sort of analysis on thin-wall structures where the wall thickness is not actually modeled but 'specified', the 3D is just the centerline surface or even just the centerline line.

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