pipe joint

[erf]

Hello, guys.
I press that I did before searching the internet to find answer to my question, but I did not find a really satisfactory answer.
However the problem is this: I have to model a tubular chassis of a vehicle, before doing this, however, I have to do simulations on a t joint between two circular section tubes. Since this joint I must then import it into ansys, I wanted to shape the joint in 3 different ways:
1) Extrusion sweep along the path with full section
2) Extrusion sweep along path with hollow section
3) Long-path sweep surface
the question I ask you is: Is there a command that with options 2 and 3 allows me to block the sweep when you meet another body (the sweep is done on paths related to the average lines of the tubes)?
I add that I cannot use the structural element function (for reasons of import and because it does not like my prof!) so much less the simple extrusion because in the frame the extrusion takes place, in general, on curvilinear trajectories.
Thank you!

 

[re_solidworks]

Hello, guys.
I press that I did before searching the internet to find answer to my question, but I did not find a really satisfactory answer.
However the problem is this: I have to model a tubular chassis of a vehicle, before doing this, however, I have to do simulations on a t joint between two circular section tubes. Since this joint I must then import it into ansys, I wanted to shape the joint in 3 different ways:
1) Extrusion sweep along the path with full section
2) Extrusion sweep along path with hollow section
3) Long-path sweep surface
the question I ask you is: Is there a command that with options 2 and 3 allows me to block the sweep when you meet another body (the sweep is done on paths related to the average lines of the tubes)?
I add that I cannot use the structural element function (for reasons of import and because it does not like my prof!) so much less the simple extrusion because in the frame the extrusion takes place, in general, on curvilinear trajectories.
Thank you!

Have you tried with welding functions? even if it will be difficult to manage "full and empty".

 

[Mike1967]

Have you tried with welding functions? even if it will be difficult to manage "full and empty".

his prof is against that function.

 

[erf]

As mike1967 says, I can't use that function. However I just found a possible solution: extruded with sweep the sections as if they were full, then in the import into ansys select only the outer areas of the pipes (as for the pipes will then be assigned properties in terms of thickness defining shell elements)... what do you think? I feel like the best solution. . .

 

[marcof]

As mike1967 says, I can't use that function. However I just found a possible solution: extruded with sweep the sections as if they were full, then in the import into ansys select only the outer areas of the pipes (as for the pipes will then be assigned properties in terms of thickness defining shell elements)... what do you think? I feel like the best solution. . .

I have no idea how complex the structure you have to do, but it doesn't seem so complicated to create the tubes (multibody) with sweep of the exact section (with the thickness and not full) and add after a cut with sweep using the tube that will have to do as a "uterine" using again the sketches of path and section with which that tube was created.
you have separate bodies and when you carry out geometry is already the definitive one.
how many tubes are made of this structure?