Hello All,
I wanted to see what people usually do when trying to get their models to mesh. Here is what I do in order:
1. Change the Mesh Density to be the finest setting.
2. Select the "Curvature based mesh" option and change it to the finest setting.
3. Increase the minimum number of elements in a circle.
4. Decrease the element size growth ratio.
Is this what everyone else does? If these don't work, what else should I try? Thoughts? Thanks.
-Scott
Hi Scot-
is this meshing for FEA within SW- such as Cosmos, or is it for a 3rd party program?
We use a 3rd party program- Moldflow - to analyse our injection molded part designs.
Unless we are targeting a specific feature or area, we find that using the "Coarse" option on the "Save As" STL options from SW is best. If we try to use a "finer" tolerance (= tighter mesh) we get way too much data, and the analysis will take way too long to process, with not much gain in analysis accuarcy.
If you are getting gaps in your mesh, I believe that there are other 3rd party mesh repair tools available- eg STL Doctor which you can use to tidy up the stl file before you import it into your analysis program-
hope this helps-