Note: Select the checks panel, check warpage and note that Max warpage is now 31.22.

 Click the switch below the smoothing algorithm and choose no smoothing.
 Click set all button to apply the algorithm to all the selected surfaces.
 Click smooth button and examine the change of the mesh.
12. Change the smoothing algorithm back to autodecide.
13. Change the meshing algorithm back to autodecide.
14. Click mesh.
15. Activate the type module to check the element type that will be used to generate the mesh. Three
element types, quad, tria and mixed are available.
16. Change the meshing element type to mixed:
 Click on the switch below the element type: and choose mixed.
 Click on set all button.
 Click on mesh and examine the change of mesh on those selected surfaces.
15. Change the meshing element type to quads:
 Click on the switch below the element type: and choose quads.
 Click on set all button.
 Click on mesh and examine the change of mesh on those selected surfaces
Note: The mixed element type is only applied to four side surfaces meshed using the mapped
as rectanglar algorithm.

Note: The toggle surf panel allows users manually change element type.
16. Click the radio button in front of details module to activate the function.

17. Change the mapping parameters:

 Click on a small diamond shape icon located at the center of surface id 6.

 Click the check box in front of size control to activate this function. A check will appear in
the box.
 Click mesh button and examine the change of mesh.
 Click the check box in front of size control again to disable this function.
 Click the check box in front of skew control to activate this function. A check will appear in
the box.
 Click mesh button and examine the change of mesh.
 Click the check box in front of size control to activate this function. A check will reappear in
the box. Now both skew control and size control are activated.
 Click mesh button and examine the change of mesh
 Click the check boxes for size control and skew control. Both functions are now disabled.
Note: The mesh generated by either type of element shape will be influenced by the size
control and the skew control.
18. Click the radio button in front of the density module to activate the function.

19. Change the element density on selected edges:

 Click the number field next to the element density= and enter 10.

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  Click set edge to button.
 Move cursor to graphic area and click on density numbers located at top two long edges and
bottom two long edges (see Figure 8)
 Click the number field next to the element density= and enter 3.
 Click set edge to button.
 Move cursor to graphic area and click on density numbers located at three short edges (see
Figure 8).

Figure 8

1. Click the radio button in front of biasing module to active this function.
2. Change the element biasing on selected edges:
 Click on the switch under bias style:, select bellcurve biasing style.
 Click green set all panel on the left side of bellcurve in order to activate this style.
 Click the number field next to bias intensity = and enter -0.500
 Click the set edge box
 Click the shared edges between surface id 4 and surface id 6, and do the same step at one
free edge of surface id 7 (see Figure 9).
 Click the mesh button.

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Figure 9

1. Click the radio button in front of checks module to activate this function.
2. Check the element quality:
 Click the number field next to jacobian and enter 0.92
 Click the jacobian button and examine the graphic area. Any element fails to meet the
specified jacobian value will be highlighted. The minimum jacobian value will be indicated in
the menu bar.
 Click skew button to check the skew quality.
3. Click the return to accept the mesh.
4. Mesh surface id 4.
 In the interactive sub-panel, select surface id 4.
 Click mesh. Review the temporary node and element placements.
Note: Make sure not to check the box in front of the reset the mesh parameters to. The
densities will automatically match the previously meshed bottom surfaces and have
coincident nodes. The default node densities set in the global are assigned elsewhere
around the surfaces. The use of reset meshing parameters to: will override the
automatic coincident matching feature.

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  Click adjust edge in order to activate this function.
 Click on each edge number on screen. Each element density corresponds to Figure 10.
 Click mesh button again to accept this mesh.
 Click return button.
Note: The mesh on surface id 6 and 7 is assigned to component bottom, and the elements on
surface id 4 are assigned to component middle, the same as components of their
associate surfaces.

Figure 10

To remesh the meshed surfaces:

1. Remesh the meshed surfaces with new parameters.

 Toggle the interactive sub-panel.
 Click on surfs box, and select surface id 4,6, and 7.
 Click on remesh button.
 Change the node density as shown in Figure 11.
 Click on biasing button.
 Enter 0.00 in the number field next to the biasing intensity = .
 Click set all button.
 Click on mesh.
 Click on return to accept the new mesh.

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2. Delete elements using the remesh button.
 Select the interactive subpanel.
 Click on surfs box, and select surface id 4,6, and 7.
 Click on remesh button.
 Click on return button. Now the elements on these three surfaces will all be deleted. This is
an alternative way to delete elements without leaving the automesh panel.

Figure 11

Cleanup Surfaces and Add Fixed Points

This exercise demonstrates the usage of the cleanup, add points, and remove points sub-panels
while automeshing a model. The addition of these functions in automesh panel allows you to clean
up surfaces without leaving the automesh panel. The mesh is done by setting the reset meshing
prarmeters to: to element size with specified element type.

To remove pinholes on selected surfaces:

1 Retrieve the Cleaned_Up-Geom.hm31 file.

 Enter the files panel on any page of the main menu.
 Click hm file and file = Cleaned_Up-Geom.hm31.
 Click retrieve to clear current session and pull up the file.
 Click return to exit the panel and return to main menu.

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2. Display all the surface IDs.
 Enter the numbers panel in page Tool.
 Change selection to surfs.
 Click surfs to bring up the extended entity selection window.
 Select all surfaces.
 Click the on button.
3. Enter options panel located in the permanent menu.
 Go to modeling subpanel.
 Click on cleanup tol = button and type 0.2 in the number field.
 Click return to exit the panel.
4. Enter in the global panel located in the permanent menu.
 Click on element size button, and enter 2.0 in the number field.
 Click return to exit the panel.
5. Go to automesh/cleanup subpanel in page 2D.
6. Select the line button below the unsplit surf: function.
7. Select the edges of pinholes located on surface id 1 and in the middle of surface id 3. The
selected pinhole and the trim lines will be removed (see Figure 12).
8. Click P to refresh the screen.

Figure 12

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To suppress/unsuppress a surface edge:

1. While still in the automesh/cleanup subpanel, select the line button below the toggle box. The
cleanup tolerance of 0.2 should be automatically displayed in the field next to cleanup tol =.
2. Click on the green shared edge between surface id 6 and 7.
3. Click P (keyboard) to refresh the screen.

To set up meshing environment:

1. Click on create mesh subpanel

2. Enter the interactive subpanel and select the surfs.
3. Switch elements to current comp to elements to surface’s comp.
Note: The element size should already be set to 2.0 due to the change of the global element
size setting in the previous step.

To add fixed points and mesh surface id 5 and 8:

1. Click the radio button next to add points subpanel.

2. Select surface id 5, and set the switch to points.
 Click the yellow points button to bring up the extended entities menu.
 Click by collector button.
 Select the component Points.
 Click select button to complete the selection and exit the window selection menu.
 The seven points (x’s) offset from surface id 5 will be highlighted.
 A value of 0.2 should be displayed in the number field next to cleanup tol=.
 Click add to create fixed points (o’s) on surface id 5.
Note: Fixed points are now associated with the middle component.

3. Enter the interactive subpanel and select the surface id 5 and 8.

4. Click mesh button.
5. Click mesh button again to create elements.
Note: Observe the mesh on surfaces id 5 and how the fixed points affect the placement of
the nodes. When you import this model, you have some free points in the points
collector. Free points (with graphical symbol X’s ) don’t affect your meshing. After you
change those points from free points to fixed points, HyperMesh will be forced to put
nodes on those fixed points later when you mesh your model.

6. Click on abort to abort the mesh.

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