Surface Mesh Diagnostics control allows you to diagnose the surface mesh and detect any surface mesh issues. You should use Surface Mesh Diagnostics before generating a volume mesh. The control diagnoses surface mesh for connectivity issue such as free or multi face edges and self intersections.
Surface Mesh Diagnostics Details view has the following options:
General
Control Type: Displays the selected control type.
Scope
Define by: Allows you to define the input to the selected control. The available options are Value and Outcome.
Value: Allows you to set manually the value of the Scoping Method and Scoping Pattern.
Outcome: Allows you to select the existing scoped outcomes from the previous steps as input.
Scoping Method: Allows you to scope Part, Label or Zone as input for the Surface Mesh Diagnostics control.
Scoping Pattern: Allows you to specify the name pattern to get the selected Scoping Method. Scoping Pattern supports Regular Expression. You can click
on the right corner of the option and the
following options are available:Publish: Publishes Scoping Pattern to the Property Worksheet.
Scope All: Inserts '.*' regular expression to scope all entities.
Definition
Skewness Limit: Allows you to specifies the skewness limit to identify the faces with skewed elements within the limit. The default value is 0.9. You can click
on the right corner of the option and click
Publish to publish Skewness Limit
to the Property Worksheet. You can parameterize
Skewness Limit.