Project 1 - Meshing of Floor Panel

Report

Floor panel

Objective

• To check the geometry error and meshing of all the surfaces with given quality criteria.

• Use classical beast mesh for meshing all the surfaces of the component. 

CAD Model

• This is the picture of the CAD model

Procedure

• Browse the CAD file for this go to file and choose open.

• select the file location and open the file

• After opening the file click on checks and select geometry then execute.

• Remove the geometry error from the CAD model(by using topo).

           

• Then assign the Material to the component, for that click on the material and tick the box to define a material. 

• Now set property click on property and double click on the default PSHELL property this is the default type we can customize.

• Now check the thickness of the component by clicking on the measure select nodes option and select the two opposite nodes of the component.

                                                                                                                                                                         

• the dimensions shown in the picture show uniform thickness(more or less 1 mm)which means this model is a sheet metal component.

• Now extract the mid surface of the component by using the manual method for that click on offset.

• before doing that apply orient on the face of the component so that it changes the color of the component to gray and yellow.

• Gray color shows positive signs and yellow color shows negative signs.

                                                                                                                               

• just press OK then use the INOT command to select that mid-surface generated here and press invert to get a segment of mid-surface

           

• now lock the view and use the OR and neighbor all commands to get more surfaces related to the edges.

                                                                                                                                                           

• now again check geometry error apart from single cons no error will occur.

• now set the Quality Criteria

• now go to quality or use the F11 short key and set the given quality parameter that is shown in the picture then press apply and press OK.

Meshing

• now go to the mesh parameter to set up the target element length shown in the picture.

• go to classic mates click on length and apply perimeter and micro length on the entire geometry.

                                                                                                                   

 • now set PID for mid-surface too.

       

• then use BEST mesh on the face of the component.

• after doing this we get meshing on entire surfaces. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

• then use split and join the command to reduce the tria element from the component.

                                                                                                                                         

• click on the hidden mode option to check the all quality criteria 

•  no quality error is found.

                                                                                                                                                         

• randomly checking the quality parameter on the meshing surface.