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How to use VSWEEP command in ANSYS11

Submitted by Peter on

Dear all,

As a beginner Ansys user, I face a problem of VSWEEP command in ANSYS11, I hope to be got help form you.In my case, I want to mesh an imported volume with an existed meshed volume in ANSYS. From Ansys11, the VSWEEP command could be used for meshing a volume by basing on a meshed source area, and  I applied this command. The interface area between the VSWEEP volume and the existed meshed volume is chosen as a meshed source area. However, I got a warning: "The volume canot be swept because the specified source area is not attached to it. The VSWE command is ignored". I could not know how to solve this problem.

Thanks greatly for your help.

The following is my simple model:

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K,1,0,0

K,2,10,0

K,3,0,10

K,4,10,10

K,5,15,0

K,6,15,10A,1,2,4,3

A,2,5,6,4

VEXT, 1, , , , , 10,

Vmesh,1

VEXT, 2, , , , , 10,

VSWEEP, 2, 5    !Error occured in this command

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