I am using mechanica to analyze a set of brackets that mount to a transmission housing for support. I have everything setup in my analysis but I am having one hell of a time trying to get the transmission housing to mesh. In fact, I have been trying to get this thing to mesh for a solid week now.
Here is what I have done so far to try and get it working:
1. Turned off as many features (holes, rounds, etc) as possible to reduce the number of elements.
2. Carefully repaired all of the errors in the geometry (overlapping surfaces, etc.).
3. Ran AutoGEM successfully on each part individually (including the housing).
4. Tried suppressing one part at a time in my analysis to see if there was some sort of glitch with the analysis.
No matter what I try, AutoGEM will get 99% complete and stops without throwing any errors other than it is unable to mesh. The thing that really annoys me is that my counterparts in Japan have been able to run a similar FEA with the same transmission model and computer setup without issues.
Any ideas of things to try to get this working?
BTW, I am using 64bit Pro/E WF4.0.