I'm having trouble doing something I thought would be simple. I have a cube, and I want to partition a cylindrical section from that cube. I do that by creating a circular partition on one of the faces of the cube. Then, I extrude the circular edge to a datum plane (the datum plane was also used to partition the cube so as to give the extrusion an end depth). This seems to create a cylinder within the cube.
I want the cylinder to have a more refined mesh than the rest of the surrounding cube. However, when I create the mesh, the refined mesh on the top face with the circular partition propagates through the full depth of the cube, beyond the cylindrical depth, to the bottom face of the cube. This creates more elements than necessary since I only want the cylinder to be refined and then have the elements transition back to the global size.
Any suggestions for accomplishing this?
(Also, side question, if the cube consists of two layers and the partitioned cylinder passes through both layers, will the cylinder take on the material properties of both layers at the proper depths?)
Dear Joseph Pace
your experience and Creativity affect to the quality of the Partitioning process.
I think in the first step you can یivide the cube into two equal parts. then create face partition and generate your circle geometry on the supposed face. after that, you can select only one specific side of the cube to extrude your partition face (in this here is circle).
About your side question:
you can assign different/same material for all partitioned sections of the part. it depends on you, while assignnig section in property mudulus you can select all of the partitioned sections if you want to assign equal material to part.
You can control the seeds of each edge by using "Seed Edges" rather than "Seed Part Instance"
Hi Joseph Pace
One simple rule for organised partitioning is keeping the number of edges of the partition and the element the same. I've illustrated the idea with a 2D model, using Tri, Quad and Quad dominant mesh designations. Same rule applies to 3D, i.e. a partition with 6 edges for a brick element. Sometimes you will need to specify seeding of the edges for customised meshes.
Attached. Hope it helps.
Regards,
Will
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