Ongoing work has resulted in improved mesh quality, and faster mesh generation. The specifics are summarized below.
Analysis will spend less time in mesh generation
Due to optimizations of the meshing algorithms, as well as the ability to use all cores of multi-core computers, your analysis will spend less time in the meshing stage, reducing your overall analysis time. The meshing time can be reduced by as much as 50%.
The improvement applies to both part and mold meshing.
Faster thickness display
Adding to the benefits of shorter preparation times, parallelization of the thickness calculation can also reduce the time to display thickness by as much as 30 to 50%. The speed improvement is most significant on 64-bit machines.
The use of parallelization also improves general meshing performance.
Fillet sizing control
To improve the quality of an analysis, a better mesh is often required. This can be achieved by using cord angle control. Previously, this has resulted in a significant increase in the element count because of the dense distribution of nodes that can be generated on fillets.
To reduce the number of elements generated on fillets, users now can select "Allow fillet sizing control" when turning on the chord angle option. To select this option, follow these steps:
- Import a CAD model,
- Click
(), - Select the CAD tab from the among the Mesh Tools tabs.
- Click on the Chord angle check box to enable it.
- With Chord angle activated, click on the Allow fillet sizing control to activate it.
- If all other meshing details are correct, click Mesh Now.
- This feature is only available for CAD models, not for IGES or STL models.
- If the model fails when both options are selected, open the model in the CAD package, check and fix any surface defects, then re-import the model.