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HyperWorks Tutorials
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7. Select the IN pass seat back cushion, IN pas seat head rest and Rear_Seat_Cushion on this page. 8. Click the Previous Page button and select IN driver seat back cushion, IN drv seat head rest, IN driver seat lower cushion, and IN pass seat lower cushion. 9. Click select to complete the selection of the seats. 10. Make sure the seat coupling toggle is set to node to node remesh. 11. Enter 40 for element size=. 12. Enter 100 for gap patch size =. 13. Enter 200 for hole patch size =. 14. Click the create hole elements option to activate it. 15. Click preview to see a preview of the mesh.
Preview of mesh
The mesh appears in the graphics area and the Acoustic Cavity tab opens in the tab area.
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AC_Structural.1 isolated
2. Right click on the other components in the list and click Show. 3. Right click on AC_Structural.1 and click Hide.
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5. Select each of the seat cavitys and right click and click Hide.
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Find panel.
6. Change the attached to: setting to node. 7. Select the node in the center of the patch as shown in the image below.
8. Click find to find the elements attached to the node. 9. Click save found to use the found elements later. 10. Click return to exit the panel. 11. Click the Delete icon to open the Delete panel.
12. Set the selector to elems if not already set. 13. Click elems >> retrieve to select the elements saved earlier. 14. Click delete entity to delete the elements. 15. Rotate the model to the view shown below.
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16. Repeat 5-15 to delete the elements on the opposite side. 17. Click return to exit the panel.
3. Click Mesh > Create > Acoustic Cavity Mesh to open the panel. 4. Click the comps selector for structure to open the component selection panel. 5. Click comps >> displayed to select all components. 6. Click select to complete the selection. 7. Click the comps selector for seats. 8. Click the Last Page ( ) button to go to the last page of components.
9. Select the IN pass seat back cushion, IN pas seat head rest and Rear_Seat_Cushion on this page. 10. Click the Previous Page button and select IN driver seat back cushion, IN drv seat head rest, IN driver seat lower cushion, and IN pass seat lower cushion. 11. Click select to complete the selection of the seats. 12. Enter 40 for element size=. 13. Enter 100 for gap patch size =. 14. Enter 0 for hole patch size =. 15. Click preview to preview the mesh.
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Note that the rear door volumes are now a part of the overall volumes.
3. Set the Mesh type option to Hexa-tetrahedra. 4. Set the Response points: to Read from file. 5. Click the button to browse for the file. 6. Select ACOUSTIC_RESPONSE_PTS.csv and click Open. 7. Click Mesh to create the mesh.
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Completed mesh
8. Click Close to close the Acoustic Cavity tab. 9. Click return to exit the panel.
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7. Click Create to create the material and edit the material card. 8. Click [BULK] and [C] in the card edit panel and leave the default values. 9. Click return to exit the panel. 10. With the Create material dialog open, enter SEAT_CAVITY in the Name field. 11. Click Create to create the material. 12. Click [C] and enter 8.8e+4 for the value. 13. Click [BULK] and accept the default value. 14. Click return to complete the card edit. 15. Click Cancel to close the Create material dialog.
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10. Click Create to create the property. 11. Click FCTN to activate the option. 12. Click the FCTN field and select PFLUID. 13. Click return to exit the property card image. 14. Click the Property tab in the Create property dialog. 15. Enter SEAT_CAVITY into the Name field. 16. Click the Material tab to assign a material to the property. 17. Click the Assign material checkbox to activate it. 18. Click SEAT_CAVITY for the Name field. 19. Click Create to create the material and edit the material card. 20. Click FCTN to activate the option. 21. Click the FCTN field and select PFLUID. 22. Click return to complete the card edit. 23. Click Cancel to close the Create property dialog.
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4. Click select to complete the selection. 5. Click proceed to complete the assignment. 6. Right click on the BODY_CAVITY component and click Assign. 7. Click elems >> by collector and select BODY_CAVITY. 8. Click select to complete the selection. 9. Click proceed to complete the assignment.
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3. Delete begin bulk from the file. 4. Find the enddata entry.
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5. Delete the enddata entry from the file. 6. Save the acoustic.fem file. The .fem file is now ready to be added to an include. This completes the tutorial.
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