Week 4 - 2D Meshing for Sheet Metal

Aim

To extract the mid surface and mesh generation for sheet metal components based on the given quality criteria

Procedure

insert the model

geometry clean up

mid surface extraction

providing quality criteria and mesh parameters

mesh generation

BODY OF THE CONTENT

mid surace

feature capturing

provided washer cuts

To proper mesh flow

Splitting the surf by cut option to max possible tiny macros so that it leads to get good mesh flow throughout the model and it reduces trias concentration

Split, swap, join these three option helps to control the trias concentration

Paste option helps to reduce trias on the surface

Num (+\-) helps to maintain equal num of nodes at circle areas and edges

Conclusion

Firstly, we should have done the all steps such as topology clean up, mesh parameters, quality criteria before going to mesh on the extracted mid surface after that cleaning the failure elements and smooth the mesh with appropriate tools such as smooth, cut, regenerate, split, swap, join and so on