3D Mesh Datasheet
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Product Highlights .. Automated 3D mesh generation .. 3D volume, surface and curve mesh .. Wide-variety of element sizing controls and refi nement .. Integrated with ACIS® and HOOPS .. Thread-safe component Surface Meshing 3D Volume Meshing DATA SHEET Product Overview 3D Mesh is an object-based software development toolkit providing fullyconfi gurable surface and volumetric meshing capabilities. The component is optimized for pre-processing within a wide-range of applications with computeraided engineering (CAE) requirements including structural analysis, heat transfer, computational fl uid dynamics and electronic design automation (EDA). 3D Mesh provides fast, automatic mesh generation for arbitrary curves, surfaces and volumes. It also provides mapped mesh, boundary layer and extrusion mesh generation for specialized geometry. The component is thread-safe, enabling multithreaded applications to take advantage of multi-core hardware platforms to deliver unsurpassed performance. 3D Mesh is licensed from Visual Kinematics, Inc. Industry Proven 3D Mesh provides a wide-range of meshing capabilities to meet specifi c industry requirements. Mesh refi nement and sizing control is supported with any combination of global element size, minimum element size, curvature based sizing and growth rate parameters. Further refi nement is possible thru specifi c sizing control placed on any number of arbitrary locations in space as well as a user defi ned function of spatial coordinates. 3D Mesh includes unique defeaturing and healing capabilities that can be performed on both the 3D geometry and the mesh. 3D Volume Meshing 3D Volume meshing is provided for applications such as mechanical engineering stress analysis (10 node parabolic tetrahedra), fl uid fl ow and electronic TCAD analysis (4 node linear tetrahedra). Specifi c capabilities include: .. Fully automatic tetrahedral meshing .. Target edge length and growth rate .. Input geometry from surface mesher as linear or parabolic boundary triangles - Interior hard points, lines and triangles .. Linear or parabolic output tetrahedra .. Boundary triangulation unchanged in output grid by default .. Adaptive mesh refi nement Surface Meshing 3D Mesh provides both curve and surface meshing for applications such as electronic method of moments analysis (3 nodes triangles, 4 node quads) and aircraft structures/automotive body panels (4 node quads). Capabilities include the ability to: .. Generate linear or parabolic triangles and/or quadrilaterals .. Incorporate arbitrary user defi ned points and edges into mesh - Snap to edge or face - Trimming loops or scratches .. Control element size - Target edge length, minimum or maximum edge length - Maximum spanning angle, minimum included angle - Growth rate .. Optionally control edge length on any ACIS geometry entity .. Simplify or coarsen mesh .. Optional geometry defeaturing removes small geometry resulting in fewer distorted elements and reduced element count 3D Mesh www.spatial.com

Extrusion Meshing 3D Mesh supports extruding 3D elements from 2D elements. Input geometry is provided by the surface mesher as linear or parabolic triangles or quadrilaterals. Elements can be extruded along a piecewise cubic path or extruded along node normals with optional growth rate. Extrusion meshing is often used to generate boundary layers for computational fl uid dynamics and to generate hexahedral elements for 2.5D prismatic structures for mechanical analysis. Extrusion meshing supports: .. Input triangles extruded to tentahedra .. Input quadrilaterals extruded to hexahedra .....