This property is visible when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to Energy or Box. The options for this property include General Remeshing (default) and Mesh Splitting. When you specify the Mesh Splitting option, the application hides all of the other Adaptivity Remeshing Controls properties, unless there is another Nonlinear Adaptive Region object with Criterion property set to Mesh.

This property is visible when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to Mesh, or when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to either Energy or Box and the Refinement Algorithm property to General Remeshing. This property controls the new mesh sizing gradient during remesh. The options for this property include:

See the Local Sizing and Gradient Control section of the Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide for additional information. In particular, how these options correspond to the Value (VAL) entries.

For the Geometry Based Adaptivity condition, you use this property to further filter elements based on size, in addition to the elements already included in the remesh at the particular substep. The default value for this property is the same as the value of the Defeature Size property of the Mesh object, whether user-defined or application generated.

Review the NLMESH section of the Mechanical APDL Command Reference for more information.

This property is visible when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to Mesh, or when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to either Energy or Box and the Refinement Algorithm property to General Remeshing. It defines the boundary angle threshold in degrees. You use this option to retain the source mesh geometry features. It is valid for both 2D and 3D analyses. The default value is 15° for 3D analyses and 10° for 2D analyses.

In a 3D analysis, this value is the dihedral angle (the angle between the normal vectors from two neighboring surface facets). In a 2D analysis, this value is the 2D patch boundary edge normal angle. If the edge angle or dihedral angle is larger than the specified threshold, the node shared by 2D edges or edges shared by 3D facets are retained during remeshing.

See the Boundary-Angle and Edge-Angle Control section of the Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide for additional information.

For 3D analyses only, this property is visible when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to Mesh, or when you set the Criterion property of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object to either Energy or Box and the Refinement Algorithm property to General Remeshing. It defines the "edge angle threshold" to split patch segment. The edge angle is defined as angle between adjacency surface segment edges sharing a node. If the edge angle is larger than specified edge angle threshold, the segment will be split and the node will be automatically treated as hard node to be retained. The default edge angle threshold is 10.0°. The larger edge angle threshold tends to improve result mesh quality, but may loss feature nodes. The entry range is 0° to 80°.

See the Boundary-Angle and Edge-Angle Control section of the Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide for additional information.

This read-only property, in combination with its sub-properties, defines the number of sculpting layers, beginning with the detected seed elements. It is available and valid for both 2D and 3D analyses. This property is specified, based on the Criterion property setting of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object and the value of one, or both, of the following properties depending upon whether you have more than one Nonlinear Adaptive Region object specified:

This option helps to detect the remeshing regions from whole model. Generally, a larger value leads to larger remeshing regions and tends to unite multiple isolated regions. A larger value also tends to create a better remesh quality (and increases mapping and solution overhead accordingly). Value of 0 is not recommended because the remeshed regions would contain only detected seed elements, resulting in many small cavities within the remeshed regions (especially if the specified skewness threshold [NLADAPTIVE] is relatively large).

See the Sculpting Layers Control section of the Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide for additional information.

This read-only property, in combination with its sub-properties, defines the global sizing ratio for remeshing. This property is specified, based on the Criterion property setting of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object and the value of one, or both, of the following properties depending upon whether you have more than one Nonlinear Adaptive Region object specified:

These entries enable the target mesh to have the same average as the source mesh. The target mesh will get finer or become more coarse if the value is less than 1.0 or larger than 1.0 respectively. Generally, the desired setting greater than or equal to 0.7.

See the Global Sizing Control section of the Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide for additional information.

This read-only property, in combination with its sub-properties, defines the tolerance for accepting new mesh. This property is specified, based on the Criterion property setting of the Nonlinear Adaptive Region object and the value of one, or both, of the following properties depending upon whether you have more than one Nonlinear Adaptive Region object specified:

This property helps to create a mesh with improved shape metrics. Note that it may change certain global remeshing control parameters and as a result may increase remeshing time. Options for this property include On and Off (default). This property is visible when the:

This property enables you to create restart points. The options include Program Controlled (default) and Manual. The Program Controlled options instructs the application to select restart points for you. when you select the Manual setting, the Load Step and Substep properties display. The Load Step property includes the options Last (default) and All. Last. The Substep property is read-only and the default setting is also Last. This property employs the RESCONTROL command.

When you request restart points, the application retains all necessary restart files for an incomplete solve due to a convergence failure or user request. For a successful solution, this property choose whether to keep or delete restart files. Options for this property include Yes (default) and No.