Mapped meshing of Two Rectangular Plates Connected by Fillet 1

[nashraf]

I want to do mapped meshing of two retangular plated conneceted by fillet. I am using soild95 element. I always get the error "invalid topology for mapped brick meshing". Can anyone solve my problem.

Thanks

 

[Drej]

First of all, make sure the geometry is suitable for mapped meshing (see the help file on this). This meshing will probably be suitable for the two plates - if they are of a "regular" geometric shape such as a square or rectangle - but not the fillet. Map mesh the two plates first and then free mesh the fillet. Remember to change the degenerate hex elements created at the interface to non-degenerate tets using the TCHG,ELEM1,ELEM2,ETYPE2 command.

Cheers,

-- drej --

 

[Kottier]

1) Try slicing your model, in order to obtain geometry that's suitable for mappep meshing.

2) Try sweeping.