I have two mesh surfaces and want to project the nodes of one of the mesh surfaces(quad elements) unto that of the second (tri elements) to create a (hexa) volume mesh. Are there any software that can do this easily? I tried Hypermesh but it could not compute it and ended up altering the meshing on the underlying surface. Does anybody have any idea how to go about it? Authors who have used this method in their papers only used the phrase "to generate a 3d mesh from the quad surface mesh, a custom code was used that projected the mesh nodes to the nearest point on the underlying bone (surface 2))". I have attached a picture to dive a pictorial view
Hi Emmanuel
I am not sure that I got you well or not. But, If I have understood your question, you can use Abaqus. There, in the Mesh Module you can edit any mesh.
Hopefully, I answered you
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I'm sorry Mr. Ghaedi but i think you got me wrong. I am trying to say that i have a bone geometry that i have meshed, and i also have a cartilage geometry surface i have also meshed. The cartilage has non-uniform thickness so in order to reproduce that, i have to project the cartilage unto the bone surface so as to create hexa meshes which will represent the true anatomical thickness of the cartilage. In the inserted picture, the red meshes are for the cartilage geometry and the blue meshes are the bone geometries (just an illustration). I hope you get me much more clearly now. Thank you.
in this kind of projects, I use Hupermorph option of hypermesh, I guess hypermorph can be a good suggestion for you!
I attached the links of useful movie, some of them is not in English words, but they are understandable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utd-cJFZaSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz0KL7Vy7ls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63-bCnqOvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lD1JnWzT4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0UDbpnug8s
I also attached a good tutorial for Hypermorph. I guess the movies will give you some ideas about the problem.
regards,
Shabnam
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