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Meshing

Overview

Interactive Meshing Environment

The Free Mesher
Mapped and Swept Meshes

Geometry Kernels and CAD file formats

Importing CAD files

CAD for FEA

Import of parts and assemblies

Repair and Defeaturing

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Automatic and interactive meshing

Mapped

Free tetrahedral

Mixed

Model courtesy Metelli S.p.A.

Boundary layer

Swept

Adaptive

Free Mesher

Unstructured mesh with triangular or quadrilateral elements in 2D and

tetrahedral elements in 3D
Most general mesher (no constraints on the geometry)
Automatic or user control of parameters

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Mapped Mesh

Quadrilateral (quad) elements

2D or faces in 3D

Regular grid mapped onto the

real geometry

Swept Mesher

Prism or hexahedral (block)

elements

Sweeping from several source

faces for circular and straight
sweep paths

Control the mesh on the source

face and the distribution in the
sweep direction

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Boundary Layer Meshing

Region of dense mesh along

specified boundaries

Layered quadrilateral mesh in 2D

Layered prism or hexahedral

mesh in 3D

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Adaptive meshing

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Hands-on Exercise

Learn how you can use the

meshing sequence.
Learn how to create structured
meshes using the swept mesher.

Hands-on Exercise

Learn how to use the free mesher

and its parameters

Minimum element size

Resolution of curvature
Resolution of narrow regions
Element growth rate
Check the mesh quality

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Hands-on Exercise

Learn how you can create

structured meshes using the
mapped and swept mesher.

If Meshing of Part Fails

Identify problem boundaries

Change the mesh parameters

Useful parameters are maximum element size, resolution of narrow regions

Use the defeaturing tools

Modify geometry object in CAD program

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Meshing