Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations GregLocock on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Abaqus: 2D mesh

Status
Not open for further replies.

CADlalala

Aerospace
Apr 3, 2014
43
I have a few questions about meshing.

Given a 2D polygon (i.e. a profile built by straight lines) of random shape:

1- Is Abaqus smart enough to mesh it without having a node at every vertex ?
2- Does it convert the polygon to a smooth curve?
3- Does Abaqus place constraints as the element size becomes big or small?

Thanks.
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

1- You can use virtual topology to decouple the mesh generation from specific geometric entities. See A/CAE Manual 75. The Virtual Topology toolset
2- No
3- I don't understand that question
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor