Mesh Menu

NVH has the following meshing capabilities:

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.
Card Editor: Select the entities that are viewed in the card image subpanel.
Check Elements: Verify the basic quality of your elements and to verify the geometric qualities of those elements.
Coarsen Mesh: Simplify the mesh by combining many small elements into a smaller number of larger ones.
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.
Config Edit: Make changes to the configuration of existing elements.
Create a 2D Element: Hand build, combine, split or modify elements.
Delete: Delete data from a model database, preview and delete empty collectors and preview and delete unused property collectors, material collectors, or curves.
Dependency: Find nodes that have their degrees of freedom removed by a constraint or MPC (multiple point constraint) more than once.
Detach: Detach elements from the surrounding structure.
Distance: Determine the distance between two nodes/points or the angle between three nodes/points, or to change distances or angles.
Drag: Create a surface and/or mesh by dragging a series of nodes or lines, or to create elements by dragging selected elements.
Edges: Find the free edges in a group of elements, find "T" or discontinuous connections in a group of elements (any edges connected to three or more elements), display duplicate nodes and equivalence duplicate nodes.
Edit Element: Hand build, combine, split or modify elements.
Element Offset: Create and modify elements by offsetting from a mesh of plate or shell elements.
Element Types: Select the type of element to create and also allows you to change existing element types.
EM Lattice Mesh: Generate an axis-parallel mesh for 2D and 1D geometry input.
Faces: Find the free faces in a group of elements and operates in the same manner as edges, but in 3D.
Features: Calculates features (corners) in the current model and displays them by creating one dimensional plot elements or feature lines.
Fuse: Connect close proximity, overlapping, and intersecting parts.
Gaps: Create gap elements.
Hole Detection: Enables you to locate and define 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.
Joints: Creates, reviews and updates joint elements for use in an OptiStruct Multi-Body Dynamics simulation.
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.
Material Orientation: Align the element material angle of a mesh of shell elements with a selected direction or coordinate system.
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.
Normals: Display the normal of an element or surface, adjust the orientation of element normals and reverse the normal of an element or surface.
Order Change: Change element order.
Organize: Reorganize your database by copying or moving data (entities) among collectors or includes.
Penetration: Check for penetrations and/or intersections of elements.
Periodic Mesh: Generate a grid containing rotational and/or translational symmetric boundaries, for example rotating machinery.
Permute: Switch coordinates of model entities in the global coordinate system.
Position: Specify a new position for model entities.
Project: Project data entities to a plane, vector, surface, or line.
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.
Quick Edit: Many tools for rapid editing of model geometry.
RBE3: Create, review and update RBE3 elements.
Refine by Pattern: Create a regular orthogonal mesh.
Reflect: Reflect portions of a model about a plane, changing the selected portion into a mirror image of itself.
Renumber: Renumber entities.
Rigids: Create rigid or rigid link elements.
Rods: Create rod elements
Rotate: Rotate entities around an axis in space.
Ruled: Create surfaces and/or meshes of plate elements from nodes, lines and/or line segments, in any combination.
Scale: Increase or decrease an entity’s dimensions.
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.
Smooth: Improve element quality in a surface-based mesh or a mesh of solid elements using one or more algorithms that adjust node positions to moderate sharp variations in size or quality in adjacent elements.
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.
Split: Split plate or solid elements.
Springs: Create spring elements.
Systems: Create rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.
TetraMesh: Fill an enclosed volume with first or second order tetrahedral elements.
TetraMesh Process: Create tetra-meshes efficiently and effectively.
Translate: Move entities in a single specified direction.
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.