Create 2D Surface Mesh
Use the Panel Mesh: Create tool to create a surface mesh and remesh elements.
A surface mesh or "shell mesh" represents model parts that are relatively two-dimensional, such as sheet metal or a hollow plastic cowl or case. Surface meshes are placed on the outer faces of solid objects, and are used as a baseline mapping point when creating more complex 3D meshes (the quality of a 3D mesh largely depends on the quality of the 2D mesh from which it is generated).
Panel Mesh: Create Tool
An overview of the Panel MeshInteractive: Create tool.
Use the Panel Mesh: Create tool to create a surface mesh and remesh elements.
- Access
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Options
- Element size
- Set the average element size.
- Element order
- Specify whether or not to create mid-edge nodes.
- Active mesh mode
- Select the meshing mode, with interactive allowing access to the mesh editing tools.
- Curvature based refinement
- Option to turn on mesh refinement based on geometric curvature.
- Method
- Select the adaptive meshing method.
- Minimum size factor
- The minimum element size, as a factor of the average element size. Value must be less than or equal to 1.
- Span angle
- Maximum deviation factor
- The maximum allowable deviation between an element edge and a geometry edge, as a factor of the average element size.
- Feature angle
- The maximum allowable break angle between adjacent elements.
- Minimum edge density
- Enable a minimum number of elements along an edge.
- Minimum density
- Set the minimum number of elements created along an edge.
- Apply if edge length <
- Apply a minimum edge density when edge lengths are less than the specified value.
- Features detection
- If Connected, feature edges will be auto-detected by specifying the connected feature detection algorithm (as in the Features panel), 1D elements which are part of 2D mesh edges, and existing FE edges with nodes already associated with surface edges.
- Feature angle
- Define a maximum angle across which elements can be maintained.
- Vertex angle
- Define the angle used for breaking feature-edges into simpler segments. This is the feature angle for common edge smoothing.