Mesh Menu
Aerospace 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. |
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. |
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. |