Meshing Options
Meshing Options are essential factors in determining the quality of
the mesh and hence the results. Results based on different preference
settings should converge to each other if an adequately small element
size is used. Meshing options are not used for beams.
You can set the Mesh quality
to Draft or High.
A draft quality mesh does not have mid-side nodes. Draft quality can be
used for quick evaluation and in solid models where bending effects are
small. High quality mesh is recommended in most cases, especially for
models with curved geometry.
The Standard mesher uses the
Voronoi-Delaunay meshing scheme
for subsequent meshing operations. This mesher is faster than the Curvature based mesher and should be
used in most cases. Try the Curvature
based mesher only when the standard mesher keeps failing. The Curvature based mesher supports mesh
control on components, faces and edges.
The Jacobian points when Mesh quality is set to
High sets the number of points to be used in checking the distortion
level of high order tetrahedral elements.
For high order shells, the Jacobian
check uses 6 points located at the nodes.
Automatic transition automatically
applies mesh controls to small features, details, holes, and fillets.
Uncheck Automatic transition before
meshing large models with many small features and details to avoid generating
a very large number of elements unnecessarily.
Automatic trials for solids
instructs the mesher to automatically retry to mesh the model using a
smaller global element size. You control the maximum number of trials
allowed and the ratio by which the global element size and tolerance are
reduced each time.
Remesh failed parts with incompatible
mesh. Using this option can help mesh bonded solids that fail compatible
meshing. If Automatic looping
is on and bonding solids using compatible mesh is requested, the software
tries incompatible meshing automatically for solids that fail to mesh
with the compatible option.
Setting the color for plotting the bottom faces of shell elements helps
you align shell elements properly.
Setting the meshing Options