How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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tryphena
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How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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Hello,
I have created an STL file of simple assembly of an outer cylindrical shell and an inner core in Blender 3D software. Then I imported it into Salome. Salome seems not to be able to recognize there are two objects. I tried to build solid from the STL file. But it can only generate the outer shell. I could not create volume groups for the inner core. Anyone knows how? Thank you.

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Tryphena
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Re: How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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This is straightforward to do directly in Salome in is not worth starting in Blender. At the top switch to the geometry module. Use the create primative to create cylinders, blocks, rectangles, cones, torus, etc. Use the Boolean to partition, cut, join, etc. and transform to move, rotate, position. It starts with the solid geometry necessary for volume meshing, although you can extract surfaces, or create surfaces for 2D meshes. There is a salome tutorial pdf on their website.
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Re: How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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Hi Kevinarden,
I need blender to create more complicated geometries. I just tried simple cases first to test out the Salome platform. And as I could not run linear elasticity solver by the elmer plugin.
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Re: How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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As kevinarden says, ELMER GUI shows the names of the volume groups but does not display them well in the graph. But it does not affect the solution.
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Re: How to create Volume group from STL file of assembly in Salome

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This is because ElmerGUI uses the boundary surface associated with the body to display the body. However, it is not necessary in every case to have a boundary surface directly related to each body. In this case the end cap boundary surface are associated with both bodies. There is no boundary between the inner and out surface, and none is required by the solver since the share nodes. However, ElmerGUI does not know how to handle these cases, it assumes each body has a boundary surface, and uses the boundary surfaces to display the body.

This apparently does not occur often, since this is only the second case I have come across.
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