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Meshing curvature

Meshing curvature - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Simulation for Finite Element Analysis

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Meshing curvature

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- [Lecturer] We've seen that creating a mesh in a CAD model is a compromise between a number of elements, the element quality, and putting a fine enough mesh in regions of high stress gradient. SOLIDWORKS has a range of tools to allow finer control over the meshing process. We're first going to look at the curvature based mesh control. Now we're going to save this model straight away. So File Save As. We're going to call this baseline 10. Again it's asking us if we want to copy the result files. The only result files we have are the mesh representation of the quality, the jacobian and the aspect ratios, so they're being called result files by SOLIDWORKS. So we want to keep hold of those for the moment. Now the reason for saving the database now is that the mesher can be unstable and occasionally it can hang the database. If this occurs in your work then abandon this version and revert back to baseline nine. Curvature base meshing recognizes only curvature on surfaces and edges, and…

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