Shell Mesher
shell pre-processor for ShellFEA
Mesh STEP sheet bodies for shell analysis in the browser: thickness and element size per body, bolts in holes, fillet welds, one mesh file.
Product pages are in English.

Highlights
- Each body gets its own thickness and element size; bodies that touch mesh node for node, with no crack
- Round holes are found by themselves; bolts tie to the hole edge or a washer meshed as a regular ring
- Fillet welds as inclined shell strips from a height and an angle, also round a tube or a curved edge
- Remote masses and points (RBE2 or RBE3), named selections, box select and a joint search for seams
- Premium saves the .shellmesh.json file or sends it to ShellFEA, and updates an open analysis in place
A question it answers
How do I mesh a platform of fifty plates with a finer mesh on the loaded deck than on the side panels, weld the gussets on and send it to ShellFEA?What you put in
A STEP model of surfaces or sheet bodies with its product tree (or a sample: a tank, a gusset bracket, a tube on a plate); a thickness and an element size per body; the material from the Twinsys materials library; fillet welds from picked edges with a height and an angle; bolts in the holes it finds, as RBE2 or RBE3, on the hole edge or a washer; remote masses and remote points; named selections.
What you get
A shell mesh of 3-node shells with its bodies, thicknesses, material, seams, weld strips, bolts and rigid elements, saved as a .shellmesh.json file on this computer or in the cloud, or sent straight to ShellFEA, where supports and loads can be put on its named selections; a check of element and node counts, welded nodes, free edges and bodies without a thickness.
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