Mesh Menu

Drop Test has the following meshing capabilities:

Table 1.

Acoustic Cavity Mesh	Create a fluid volume mesh for the open-air volumes of an enclosed compartment, such as the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
Automesh	Create meshes or re-mesh existing meshing interactively or automatically on surfaces or groups of elements.
Bars	Create, review or update bar2 or bar3 elements.
Boolean Operation	Connect intersecting 2D elements. This tool works for triangular as well as quadrilateral elements.
Comparison Tool	Perform a model-based CAD-CAD, CAD-FE or FE-FE comparison between two models, or two selections of entities. You can also use this tool to find and report on geometrical/shape differences.
Create a 2D Element	Hand build, combine, split or modify elements.
Drag	Create a surface and/or mesh by dragging a series of nodes or lines, or to create elements by dragging selected elements.
Element Offset	Create and modify elements by offsetting from a mesh of plate or shell elements.
EM Lattice Mesh	Generate an axis-parallel mesh for 2D and 1D geometry input.
Fuse	Connect close proximity, overlapping, and intersecting parts.
Gaps	Create gap elements.
Hole Detection	Enables you to locate and define many, or all, holes in a model and add those holes as geometry to a new component or the current one.
Hole/Gap Fill	Mesh holes, gaps, and patches.
Line Drag	Create a two or three dimensional surface and/or mesh or elements by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along another line.
Line Mesh	Create a chain of one dimensional elements such as beams along a line.
Linear 1D	Create one dimensional elements.
Linear 3D	Create solid elements between two groups of plate elements.
Masses	Create mass elements.
Mesh Controls	Define one model specific mesh setting, as well as an unlimited number of local mesh settings.
Midmesh Thickness	Calculate the thickness of a mid-mesh from the solid geometry.
Nodes	Create nodes using a wide variety of methods.
Periodic Mesh	Generate a grid containing rotational and/or translational symmetric boundaries, for example rotating machinery.
Quality Index	Calculates a single value to represent the quality of the displayed shell (2D) model.
Quality Index Calculations	The Quality Index value is a function of twelve criteria with user-defined weight factors.
Quality Report	Creates an HTML mesh quality report
RBE3	Create, review and update RBE3 elements.
Refine by Pattern	Create a regular orthogonal mesh.
Rigids	Create rigid or rigid link elements.
Rods	Create rod elements.
Ruled	Create surfaces and/or meshes of plate elements from nodes, lines and/or line segments, in any combination.
Shrink Wrap Mesh	Generate an enclosed volume or solid mesh and is typically used to approximate and simplify an existing mode.
Skin	Create a skin surface and/or mesh from a set of lines.
Solid Map Mesh	Create a mesh of solid elements in a solid geometric volume.
Spin	Create a surface and/or mesh or elements by spinning a series of nodes, a line or lines, or a group of elements about a vector to create a circular structure.
Spline	Create a shell mesh and/or surface.
Springs	Create spring elements.
TetraMesh	Fill an enclosed volume with first or second order tetrahedral elements.
TetraMesh Process	Create tetra-meshes efficiently and effectively.
Voxel Mesh	Fills an enclose volume with voxels (hexas) of a predefined size. This type of mesh is only useful in topology optimization. It does not give meaningful results in a stress analysis.