sweep of a domain

kkpal · October 15, 2015, 12:21

dear all,
I need to model flow around a cylinder with helical wires, which looks like the first Figure.
Now I have a clip of the computation mesh like Figure 2. Is it possible to twist, or sweep the 2D mesh into a 3D, which looks like Figure 3?

Or is it easier to do this job directly from the 3 dimensional model as shown in Figure 1?

Please guide me the way!

dgarlisch · October 16, 2015, 11:11

I am not aware of a twisted extrude tool in PW.

However, I suggest looking at the script:
CreateFromAnalyticFunction

Also see this script for more examples:
glyph-extrudeProfile

You should be able to adapt them to do what you need.

Good luck.

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October 16, 2015, 11:11		#2
dgarlisch Senior Member David Garlisch Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Fidelity Pointwise, Cadence Design Systems (Fort Worth, Texas Office) Posts: 307 Rep Power: 14	I am not aware of a twisted extrude tool in PW. However, I suggest looking at the script: CreateFromAnalyticFunction Also see this script for more examples: glyph-extrudeProfile You should be able to adapt them to do what you need. Good luck.