Unattended Operation of Mid-surface Generation Tool for Boosting Efficiency in CAE Pre-processing

This paper is written to cover the topic on how to boost the efficiency of mid-surface modelling in CAE simulation. As widely known, mid-surface generation from 3D objects has not been easy for many years, and at the early stage of creating mid-surface models, manually CAD models must go through several treatments, i.e., simplification, defeaturing, suppression, before performing the mid-surface extraction process. As time elapsed and through the advancement of CAD-CAE integration, mid-surface extraction tools have been developed to automatically convert any 3D objects into mid-surfaces. This mid-surface extraction function is now available in both CAD and CAE software. Research works and new developments to find better mid-surfacing algorithms are still undergoing to obtain better results and to find potential applications in diverse areas.