Meshing a complex geometry

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

I have the attached component. It is really giving me trouble for meshing. I have tried automatic geometry clean up and also defeature to remove small fillets. It seems that these options are not very powerful for geometry clean up. I want to create 3D tetramesh. I appreciate if you can help me with that. I have spent a lot of time on this component but no success. The stp file is attached. I don't need a fine mesh. A coarse mesh would be enough.

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

    Hi There,

    I think you can use solid thinking inspire for geometric cleanup.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

    do we have that option in hypermesh?

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

    what is that solid thinking ? can you explain that 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

    what is that solid thinking ? can you explain that 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

      Hi Bita,

     

    If it is a very complex geometry, better you delete the solid and retain only the surface, carry the defeaturing anf geom cleanup and convert the surface back to solid.

     

    @Rakesh patil In short, sT Inspire is a concept generation, analysis tool where you directly work on the geometry.

     

    Here you can learn more about the tool:

    http://www.solidthinking.com/Inspire2016.html

     

    sT Inspire is available for students as a part of Student Edition. 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited September 2016

    Thanks for your reply guys

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited September 2016

    Making 3D TET mesh for this geometry maybe is not good idea. I think a shell modelization will be better.

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited September 2016

    Solid Thinking is a tool for quick Design optimization.(Topology Optimization)

    It uses Altair Simlab for meshing any component & Optistruct for analysis/Optimization.

     

    Bita: I able to mesh shared part with tetrahedral element simlab. If you want two layers across thickness then that is also possible in simlab. Let me know if you need any help wrt to simlab.

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