Create Hex Mesh
Before you being, ensure that the solids have been partitioned so that they are either one directional or three directional mappable. Refer to, Partition Solids for Mappability.
Also, make sure you have an existing 2D mesh, which will be used to extrapolate the 3D solid map mesh.
- Use the Line Drag subpanel to select a 2D mesh, and then select a line from the model geometry to use as the mapping direction.
- Use the Linear Solid subpanel to select two existing 2D meshes and extrapolate a 3D mesh that connects them.
- Use the Ends Only subpanel to select two opposing surfaces and one 2D mesh, then extrapolate the mesh between the surfaces.
You can omit the source, the destination, or the along geometry by setting either one of the entity selectors to (none). Only one of these selections can be set to (none); the other two selections are then required to define the volume to fill.
HyperWorks displays the progress of the solid map meshing process in the status bar. Upon completion, HyperWorks displays a report of the mesh quality. The element quality value reported is the worst scaled Jacobian in the mesh. The scaled Jacobian's value may range from 0.0 to 1.0(best). An elem's scaled Jacobian is a ratio of the elem Jacobian over the Jacobian of an ideal elem of the same configuration.