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Printing - Controlling The 2-D Mesh Concentration in Curved Areas - HM-3140

This tutorial explains how to use chordal deviation parameters in HyperMesh to control mesh density and biasing along curved surfaces. It demonstrates creating meshes with: 1) only element size control, 2) maximum deviation parameter, 3) reduced maximum angle parameter, and 4) increased maximum element size parameter. The tutorial varied these parameters to illustrate their effects on mesh quality in curved areas.

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Printing - Controlling The 2-D Mesh Concentration in Curved Areas - HM-3140

This tutorial explains how to use chordal deviation parameters in HyperMesh to control mesh density and biasing along curved surfaces. It demonstrates creating meshes with: 1) only element size control, 2) maximum deviation parameter, 3) reduced maximum angle parameter, and 4) increased maximum element size parameter. The tutorial varied these parameters to illustrate their effects on mesh quality in curved areas.

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Controlling the 2-D Mesh Concentration in Curved Areas -

HM-3140
For this tutorial it is recommended that you complete the introductory tutorial, Getting Started with
HyperMesh - HM-1000.

This tutorial explains the effects of the chordal deviation parameters in the automesh panel. Chordal
deviation is a meshing algorithm that allows HyperMesh to automatically vary node densities and biasing
along curved surface edges to gain a more accurate representation of the surface being meshed.

The following topics are included:

• Creating a mesh based only on element size

• The maximum deviation parameter

• The maximum angle parameter

• The maximum element size parameter


All files referenced in the HyperMesh tutorials are located in the <
install_directory>/tutorials/hm/ directory. For detailed instructions on how to locate the
installation directory <install_directory> at your site, see Finding the Installation Directory
<install_directory>, or contact your system administrator.

To retrieve the file for this tutorial:

1. Retrieve the file chordal_dev.hm file, located in the <install_directory>/tutorials/hm/


directory.
2. Click return to access the main menu.

Creating a Mesh Based Only on Element Size


In this section, create a mesh using only element size, not the chordal deviation meshing parameters.

To set the mesh parameters and create the mesh:

1. Select the automesh panel on the 2-D page.


2. Select the create mesh subpanel.
3. Set the meshing mode to automatic using the rightmost toggle.
4. Activate reset meshing parameters to:.
5. Click elem size = and enter 15.000.
6. Click the lowest toggle and select elements to surface’s comp.
7. Click surfs and select by collector from the extended entity selection menu.
HyperMesh goes to the display panel.

8. Select use size from the component list.

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9. Click select.
10. Click mesh to create the mesh.
11. Click return.

View of the completed mesh for this exercise.

The Maximum Deviation Parameter


In this section, mesh a set of surfaces using the maximum deviation parameter to control the element
densities and biasing.

To set the chordal deviation parameters:

1. Select the automesh panel on the 2-D page.


2. Click the upper toggle and select use mesh params.
HyperMesh now uses the settings in the mesh params subpanel.

3. Select the mesh params subpanel.


4. Click the leftmost toggle and select use chordal deviation.
5. Click min elem size = and enter 1.000.
NOTE You can cycle through the parameter settings by pressing
the TAB key after typing in a value.

6. Set max elem size = to 15.000.


7. Set max deviation = to 0.500.
8. Set max angle = to 90.000 for the maximum angle parameter to be neglected.

To create the mesh:

1. Select the create mesh subpanel.


2. Select the automatic mode on the create mesh subpanel.

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3. Click surfs and select by collector from the extended entity selection menu.
HyperMesh goes to the display panel.

4. Select deviation ctrl from the component list.


5. Click select.
6. Click mesh to create the mesh.
7. Click return to access the automesh subpanel.

View of the completed mesh for this exercise.

The Maximum Angle Parameter


In this section, use the same chordal deviation settings from the previous tutorial, but reduce the
maximum angle parameter to compare the effects.

To set the chordal deviation parameters:

1. Select the mesh params subpanel.


2. Click the leftmost toggle and select use chordal deviation.
3. Click min elem size = and enter 1.000
NOTE You can cycle through the parameter settings by
pressing the TAB key after typing in a value.

4. Set max elem size = to 15.000


5. Set max deviation = to 0.500
6. Set max angle = to 20.000

To create the mesh:

1. Select the create mesh subpanel.


2. Click surfs and select by collector from the extended entity selection menu.
HyperMesh goes to the display panel.

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3. Select angle ctrl from the component list.
4. Click select.
5. Click mesh to create the mesh.

View of the completed mesh for this exercise.

The Maximum Element Size Parameter


In this section, use the same chordal deviation parameters from the previous exercise except for the
maximum element size parameter. The maximum element size parameter is increased to allow the
algorithm to create larger and fewer elements along planer and less curved surface edges.

To set the chordal deviation parameters:

1. Select the mesh params subpanel.


2. Click the leftmost toggle and select use chordal deviation.
3. Click min elem size = and enter 1.000.
NOTE You can cycle through the parameter settings by
pressing the TAB key after typing in a value.

4. Set max elem size = to 30.000.


5. Set max deviation = to 0.500.
6. Set max angle = to 20.000.

To create the mesh:

1. Select the create mesh subpanel.


2. Click surfs and select by collector from the extended entity selection menu.
HyperMesh goes to the display panel.

3. Select max size ctrl from the component list.


4. Click select.

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5. Click mesh to create the mesh.

View of the completed mesh for this exercise.

See HyperMesh Tutorials for a complete list of tutorials.

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