3.25. Modifying Mesh Refinement

You can perform additional enhancements to your surface mesh using the Modify Mesh Refinement task. It is not recommended to use this task to coarsen the mesh locally, particularly on curved surfaces, instead, perform any coarsening operations using the Add Local Sizing task (see Adding Local Sizing for more information).

  1. Choose a means for adding or controlling the remeshing using the Operation(s) drop-down menu.

    You can choose to simply Add a mesh refinement control, and remesh later when the task is completed and updated, or you can choose to Add & Remesh a mesh refinement control that will add the control and perform a remeshing operation at the same time.

    When Add & Remesh is used, and you select only one label, no additional labels are created. In all other cases, a new label is created, representing the selected zones/labels.

  2. Provide a Name, or use the default name (labelsize_1).

  3. Specify a Target Mesh Size.

  4. Choose whether to Select By the label or zone name in the list below.


    Note:  Labels originate from the CAD geometry, such as from group names in SpaceClaim geometries, or from named selections in DesignModeler geometries.


    Use the Filter Text option in the drop-down to provide text and/or regular expressions in filtering the list (for example, using *, ?, and []). You can also choose the Use Wildcard option in the drop-down to provide wildcard expressions in filtering the list. When you use either ? or * in your expression, the matching list item(s) are automatically selected in the list. Use ^, |, and & in your expression to indicate boolean operations for NOT, OR, and AND, respectively. See Filtering Lists and Using Wildcards for more information.

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

    • Use the Remesh Feature Min Angle option to specify the minimum angle for which features will be preserved upon remeshing.

    • Use the Remesh Feature Max Angle option to specify the maximum angle for which features will be preserved upon remeshing.

    • Use the Remesh Corner Angle option to specify the corner angle for remeshing.

  6. Click Modify Mesh Refinement. The additional surface mesh settings will be applied and visible. For more information about surface meshes, see Object-Based Surface Meshing.

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