3.20. Improving the Volume Mesh

You can make improvements to your volume mesh by using the Improve Volume Mesh task.

  1. Use the Quality Method option to choose from several different types of mesh quality controls (skewness, aspect ratio, change in size, and so on). Choices include Orthogonal (the default for the workflows), Enhanced Orthogonal, and Skewness. For more information, see Quality Measure. The quality method selected here by default is the same as that set in the Generate the Volume Mesh task.

  2. Provide a value for the Cell Quality Limit.

  3. Click Advanced Options to access additional controls prior to performing this task. Options include:

    • Use the Quality Improve Min Angle option to set the minimum angle between the normals of adjacent faces during mesh improvements.

    • Use the Quality Improve Iterations option to specify the number of iterations that will be performed to improve the mesh.

    • Use the Allow Smoothing of Features for Remaining Bad Cells? option to choose whether or not to ignore geometric features that are related to any bad cells that remain in the volume mesh. This allows you to improve your volume mesh by ignoring any geometric features in the vicinity of bad cells.

  4. Click Improve Volume Mesh.

    If you need to make adjustments to any of your settings in this task, click Edit, make your changes and click Update, or click Cancel to cancel your changes.

    For more information, see Improving the Mesh.

  5. Once you are satisfied with your changes, proceed to the next step in the workflow.