hex mesh for irregular bones

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited November 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

 

I wonder if someone can help me understand how to mesh the attached object in hex only please.

I'm using hypermesh 13.0

Thank you

 

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    @dilen

     

    I think best way is to manually split the solid to regular shapes and mesh (or use solid map)

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    it's pretty complicated. Also in solidmap the one volume option does not work

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    It's not simple to make Hexa-only mesh. That needs alot of technique & time.

    But I think GDTech's team could do that, of course, via a commercial contract :-)

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2020

    I have managed these so far but struggling to get the whole thing to mesh. Any suggestions please?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    @Dilen,

     

    Maybe you can try some other options like line drag, ends only, etc...

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Sometimes I get error message:

    Non-mappable(1) along-faces form 0 loops. need 1.

     

    Any idea what this means?

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    I think your splits are not mappable

    my strategy is like this (sorry it's not completed :rolleyes:/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif' title=':rolleyes:' />)

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Thanks but I'm not sure what you did. Would you explain please?

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Is it possible to create a mixture of penta and hex elements? How please?

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    From point of view of mapping method, if your starting 2D mesh is quad only you got hex only 3D mesh. If your starting is mixte mesh (quad+tria) you got mixte hexa-penta 3D mesh.

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    do you think I can you a morphing approach for this geometry to get hex mesh?

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    I dont think that morphing will yield desired output.By the way did you try with shrinkwrap.PFA Hm file with Shrink wrap hex mesh.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Shrink wrap.JPG

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    I have hypermesh 13. Any chance you can import it to this version please?

     

    Thank you

     

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited November 2020

    PFA hm file for 13.0 version.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Shrink wrap with 13.JPG

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Did you do just a normal shrinkwrap without specifying features or did you do a surface quad mesh first then shrink wrap?

     

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    For shrinkwrap there is no need of surface mesh.Just select component & set solid elements with lesser jacobian.I tried with 5 mm element size with .3 jacobian. So its a few click meshing process.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Is there a better way I can do this so that I can get good element quality because my model will involve other parts in contact.

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    try tetra mesh, then shiftF6 split it into hexas

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    It's quite a quick way but the jacobians for all elements become negative. Any ways to fix this please?

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited January 2017

    If you like 'Splitting' method, you have to accept some 'not-so-good' quality.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    I think your splits are not mappable

    my strategy is like this (sorry it's not completed :rolleyes:/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif' title=':rolleyes:' />)

     

    Hello Tinh,

    I am running into an issue hex meshing a muscle STL. I was wondering how you drew the outlines that separated the solid object into multiple sub-components which could then be meshed. In the example you provided, only one of these components is hex meshed and this looks like the process I need to follow to fix my problem. I am new to HyperMesh, so any advise you could provide would be of great help.

     

    Thank you,

     

    Jack

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  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited January 2018

    Because you are new to hypermesh, i suggest you join altair training courses

    I dont know how it can be done, 3d work is not easy, just try and error