Hello,
I am trying to create node coupling between two opposite faces, edges and vertices.
My geometry is cubic (or rectangular cuboid), with complex structure enclosed by smooth faces of the cube.
I understand that I need to start the mesh from the faces, couple opposite nodes, and then create volume mesh with 3D tetrahedron elements to mesh the rest of the enclosed geometry.
I tried to work through the Ansys ACT developer guide, and I do manage to write some customized files. However, I can't manage to find a way to control the mesh generation through the ACT scripting.
What will be the best way to generate this type of meshing?
Sincerely,
Gilad
You can use automatic mesh in Ansys or use ICEM for generating the mesh.
Divide the geometry into different section and on that individual section do meshing or face meshing or size meshing then you can easily customize the meshing on entire geometry.
Pawan Kumar and Naseem Ahmad thank you for your quick answers.
Naseem Ahmad I believe that automatic mesh will not work in my case (please find attached pictures with some local mesh functions that capture details of complex geometry within the cube).
Can ICEM meshing be transferred to Mechanical structural analysis simulation?
Pawan Kumar I haven't tried that yet but it sounds like what I should do. Is it possible to combine 2D and 3D mesh? In any case, will it be any way to automate this process?
Sincerely,
Gilad
There is two type of mesh setting in ansys workbench (mechanical).
1st local-mesh-setting, 2nd global ones.
For do that you should right-click on mesh and use Method and set your element shape (quad or triangle (in 2d)) and its order (quadratic or linear).
if you do that, this setting ask you to input a (or some) body (bodies), so you use local-mesh-setting.
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