Dear Colleagues,

I've just prepared small portion of code in APDL that builds a simple specimen. It uses geometrical symmetry and VGLUE command. And here is my question: i am not sure if vglue is the same thing as Share topology. Can anyone help and explain whats the difference? The other question is related with VSYM command. I've noticed that when i tried to combine my solids into one solid with vadd,1,2,3,4 command, the edges in geometrical model still exist. Is there any (more efficient) substitution for vadd command to combine my solids into one and removing imprinted edges?

Here is my code:

FINISH

/CLEAR,START

/PREP7

k,1,0,0,0

k,2,15,0,0

k,3,15-((100*3**(0.5))/32),100/32,0

k,4,0,100/32,0

lstr,1,2

lstr,2,3

lstr,3,4

lstr,4,1

al,all

pcirc,5,,0,90

aadd,1,2

/pnum,area,1

aplot

csys,wp

wpcsys,1,0

wpoffs,0,2*100-0.5*100,0

pcirc,100/6,,-90,90

wpcsys,1,0

rectng,0,100/2,0,2*100

/pnum,area,1

aplot

voffst,1,-7

voffst,2,-7

voffst,3,-7

/facet,wire

/pnum,area,0

/pnum,volu,1

vplot

vsbv,2,1

vsbv,4,3

/facet,norml

vplot

allsel

vsym,y,1

!/facet,wire

/replo

vsel,s,volu,,1,2,1

cm,objetosci,volu

allsel

vsym,x,objetosci

cmdele,objetosci

vglue,all ! ShareTopology??

ET,1,SOLID187

esize,005

vmesh,all

vplot