Create Midmesh
Use the Midmesh: Automatic tool to automatically generate a mesh at the midplane location, directly from the input geometry (components, elements, solids or surfaces), without first creating a midsurface. This saves significant time over the traditional midsurface-based approach.
Midmesh: Automatic Tool
An overview of the Midmesh: Automatic tool.
- Access
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Options
- Step offset mode
- This option allows finer control of how stepped geometry (one side continuous surface, and opposite side steps) is captured. This option is valid only when flatten connections is enabled. Values can be:
- Edit criteria
- Set the minimum size and target element size settings in the criteria file to control the resulting midmesh via the Criteria File Editor.
- Extraction size
- The midmesh extraction element size. By default this is taken as the target element size from the criteria file. This can be set smaller than the target size, though that is not recommended unless there are problems extracting at the target size.
- Mask input entities
- Hide input midmeshed entities in the modeling window upon exiting the context.
- Destination component
- Select which component newly created midmeshes are placed in.
- Ignore flat edges
- Do not imprint flat edges from the input geometry onto the
midmesh.
- Flatten connections
- Aligns/flattens the midmesh at ribs/connections.
- Minimum size
- Minimum element size allowed in the finalized mesh. This in combination
with the ‘suppress proximity edges factor’ and 'combine non-manifold
edges factor’ can ensure that the output mesh is ready for rebuild with
the same criteria.
Can only be modified in the Criteria File Editor.
- Suppress proximity edges factor
- The minimum size factor for removing edges within proximity. Edges
closer than this factor times minimum size will be
suppressed.
- Combine non-manifold edges factor
- The minimum size factor for joining non-manifold edges. Non-manifold
edges closer than this factor times minimum size will be
combined.
- Defeature ribs width factor
- The minimum size factor for removing small ribs. Ribs closer than this factor times minimum size will be suppressed. Default is 0.9.
- Defeature openings with width <
- The maximum width for removal of small holes and openings.
Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls
To do this | Press |
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Select elements by face or edge chain (with Elements selected as the source) | Alt + Left Mouse Click |