Issue with Y shape tubes/branching/Loft/Mesh

[ruoqih]

1. I made a Y shape sketch 

2. used the Pipe function under solid to generate tubes along the skeleton. 

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3. Connected the parent tube with the daughter tubes using loft between the two faces (tangent, merge tangent edges, new body).

4. After all tube got connected, I combined them to form one joint body.

5. However, this gives me this T shaped line at the branching site, and when I use fillet, this generates a triangular shaped area which gives me error when meshing in COMSOL. 

 

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Is there a way to remove this particular face? I tried to merge faces but I am getting error message again. Any suggestions or comments are much appreciated! 

Thank you very much in advance!

 

 

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

Here is an approach that might work better:

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[ruoqih]

Hi Thank you so so much for the reply! Would it be possible to provide a short video clip of how you did it? I am following your workflow, but I am a little lost.

[ruoqih]

Hi Thanks again! It is working on my end now. 🙂