Meshing

Advance Design includes a powerful Finite Elements Engine enhanced with all the latest innovations. This provides for the simpler and faster automated meshing of complex structures producing more accurate, higher quality stiffness and strength visualisations.

Meshing is an essential operation for the design calculation using the Finite Elements Method. It ensures a higher level of accuracy within designs, separating the design elements in finite elements to refine calculation results.

 

The extended mesh capabilities of Advance Design allow you to apply and refine the meshing of each design element, and results in a quality analysis of your design. Not only does meshing dramatically reduce costs through the reduction of the design cycles and increased productivty, but it is able to minimise material costs by optimising designs.

Advanced control of Global meshing

• 2 meshing algorithms: Delaunay and Grid,
• Ability to mesh solely by triangles, by quadrangles or using a combination of mesh shapes,
• Include the loads in the meshing process,
• Definition of default mesh elements size.

Extended capabilities for application of local mesh parameters

• Progressive mesh at the beginning, end, centre or at both ends of design elements.

• Different meshing parameters for each side of planar elements.

• Different meshing parameters for each side of planar elements.

Various display options of the meshed design

• Display mesh on the entire design or on a selection,
• Display/ hide node sizes, mesh ID's, number of meshes,
• Define themesh node size,
• Display the mesh along with different rendering styles and display parameters (perspective view, shadow, luminosity, transparency, etc.