Week - 4 - 2D meshing for Plastic components

Aim:
To extract the middle-surface of the plastic bottle cap and mesh the same with, given element quality criteria as mentioned below and also assign a proper thickness to it.

Objectives:

• Generating the mid-surface from the parent component
• Performing a meshing operation on a middle surface as per element quality criteria
• Checking the element quality by comparing with given quality parameters and criteria and improve the quality by various options
• Assigning the material and proper thickness to it
  

• PROCEDURE

  Geometry cleanup:

  *Check the given model for geometrical errors using geometry check tool.

*Fix all the geometry errors.

Mid surface generation:

After completing geometry clean up, we have to generate mid surface for the model before proceding to mesh generation.

*We can generate mid surface using FACES>>MID SURFACE

*After selecting MID SURFACE we have to select the faces to mid surface and click on the middle mouse button.

*In the pop up window we have to add the offset value and press middle mouse button, which will generate mid surface for the face.

MESH GENERATION:

*We have to set mesh parameters and quality criteria from utilities bar before generating mesh.