When conducting an insert shift analysis, where the insert is a composite material made up of several layers, it would be extremely helpful if the solid mesh generator would create a new layer for each row of elements specified. This way each new layer can be turned on and off as needed to assign the material property and orientation in the “User-defined orthotropic property” for that layer.
If I needed six (6) layers of elements through the thickness, each row of elements would be placed in its own layer and each layer represents a layer that makes up the composite insert.
My suggestion is, when defining the number of elements through the thickness, in the “Tetra” tab of the mesh generator, just below that would be a check box to isolate the layers. When that box is activated each row of elements would be separated into its own layer.
I realize that certain areas of the model would be difficult to define, but at that point several hours of labor would be done leaving only the minor “clean up” of re-assigning elements to their proper layer.
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