The Object Generator enables you to make one or more copies of a template object, scoping each to a different piece of geometry. When defining mesh controls, you can use the Object Generator to make copies of a template mesh control, which may reduce the necessity to manually define multiple related mesh controls. For details, refer to Generating Multiple Objects from a Template Object in the Mechanical help.

For most mesh controls, the latest control that you add on a particular geometry overrides any prior controls that you already have added on that geometry. For example, if you apply a Sizing control setting of 0.5 to faces A,B,C then apply a setting of 1.0 to face B, faces A and C will retain the 0.5 setting, but the setting for face B will be 1.0. This is also useful when you want to force sweep many bodies of a multibody part and only tet mesh one or specify special sweeping options on one. For example, you can select all 1000 parts and then override one or 10 part(s) instead of picking 999 (990) and then selecting one (10).

Exceptions include the MultiZone Quad/Tri and All Tetrahedrons - Patch Independent controls. For information about how these controls interact with other controls, refer to Meshing: Mesh Control Interaction Tables, Interactions Between Mesh Methods, and Interactions Between Mesh Methods and Mesh Controls.

If you suppress a mesh control tool, the Suppress symbol appears ("x" adjacent to the name of the tool) and Suppressed is set to Yes in the Details View of the tool. Situations can occur when you do not suppress a mesh control tool, and the Suppress symbol appears adjacent to the tool but Suppressed is set to No in the Details View of the tool. In these situations, refer to the mesh control's Active read-only field for the reason why the tool is suppressed. Examples are a control applied to a uniform surface body mesh (not supported), a control scoped to suppressed geometry, or a Contact Sizing control scoped to a suppressed Contact Region.