Is there a limit to the number of surfaces a solid can have for solid mapping?
Altair EmployeeThe screenshot below shows a part I'm working on meshing. In order to have a good quality mesh, I have split the top surface into many smaller surfaces. I then meshed the individual surfaces with the 2D Automesh tool and was hoping to then simply use the Solid map tool to sweep that mesh through the thickness (an approach I've used many times before. However, when I attempt to mesh this solid, I get the following error message: 'At 0/1. Solid 64:Faces (=2813) per solid over limit(1078).' I was not aware that such a limit existed. Other than splitted the solid into multiple smaller solids, is there any way around this?
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If you have such error, why not split big solid into several small ones?
Your plate has constant thickness?
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It is a constant thickness, so I can do that. I've just never run into this issue before, and I was wondering if there were some other way to avoid it.
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If thickness is contant, you can make the mesh by using another method, like 'Drag'.
From your 2D mesh on one side, just do 3D => Drag => drag elems
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Altair Forum User said:
If thickness is contant, you can make the mesh by using another method, like 'Drag'.
From your 2D mesh on one side, just do 3D => Drag => drag elems
That's perfect. That makes things much easier. Now I don't have to do the extra step of having to split bodies like this up.
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