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Module 05 Topics
This module covers introductory topics for meshing and mesh control:
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Meshing in Mechanical
Global Mesh Controls
Local Mesh Controls
Troubleshooting
Virtual Topology
Direct Modeling
Mesh Quality Criteria
Relevance Center
-100
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Coarse
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Medium
+100
-100
Fine
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+100
Curvature On
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Curvature Off
Num Cells = 4
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Num Cells = 12
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Element A
Element B
Kept
Dropped
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Triangle (Tri)
Quadrilateral (Quad)
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Patch Independent
Source
Target
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MultiZone Mesh
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MultiZone Mesh
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Type: Tetra
Type: Tetra/Pyramid
Geometry
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No Defeaturing
Geometry with a
sliver face
Using Defeaturing
Sliver face
captured in
mesh
Sliver face
ignored in
mesh
Entity
Bodies
Faces
Edges
Vertices
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Element Size
x
x
x
# of Elem. Division
Sphere of Influence
x
x
x
x
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Note: The refinement method generally offers less control and/or predictability over the final mesh, since
the initial mesh is simply split. This splitting process may adversely affect other meshing controls.
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Note: Inflation is used more often in CFD and EMAG applications, but may occasionally
be useful for capturing stress concentrations etc. in structural applications.
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05.04 Troubleshooting
Mesh Metrics
Mesh metrics are described further Section 05.07 Mesh Quality Criteria and in
Appendix 05.2 Mesh Quality Criteria.
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05.04 Troubleshooting
If the mesher is not able to generate a mesh, an error message will be returned:
Double click the message field in the status bar to open the messages window.
Double click individual messages to show the error in a separate window.
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05.04 Troubleshooting
The mesher also provides visual cues to identify obsolete and/or failed
meshes. As shown in the figures below, failed meshes are shaded in
maroon and obsolete meshes are shaded in yellow.
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Size Control
In the figure at upper right, 3 edges are
virtually split to produce improved
elements shapes.
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Final Mesh
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Split Edge
Add a hard vertex
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Original mesh
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Meshing first
the block then
the pipe
Meshing first
the pipe then
the block
Wedges
Hexas
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Hexas
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This metric is based on the ratio of the volume to the edge length
for a given element.
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Bad
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1
Perfect
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Model Assembly
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1
Perfect
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5-10
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Bad
1
Perfect
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10
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Bad
0.1
Perfect
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Bad
0
Perfect
0.2
0.4
Bad
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170
Perfect
Bad
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60
165
90
180
Perfect
Bad
Perfect
Bad
max
min
0
Perfect
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0.75
1
Bad
0
Bad
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1
Perfect