Meshing Setup (Mat Foundation)

Used to organize meshing regions to define finite element boundaries and to generate meshes.

Regions of any shape can be used for generating mat boundaries, holes, or control regions. Moment generated due to local stresses (such as reentrant corners) is considered for reinforcement design, corner and hole reinforcement detailing can be done through Reinforcing Zoning form (Mat foundation) .

Setting	Description
Meshing Setup tree	This tree displays the hierarchy of all regions which have been added as boundaries, holes, or control regions.
Region types	Boundary - Add region as the main mat boundary. It is the outermost region of the mat foundation. You can have as many boundaries as needed. Boundaries can be connected or isolated. Hole- Specify a hole within a mat boundary. You can add as many holes as needed. Please note, holes must not intersect each other or the boundary or any control region. Control Region - Specify a special region within a mat boundary which might have a different slab thickness or soil property. You can add as many control regions as needed. Please note, these regions must not intersect each other or the boundary or any hole.
Region identifier	It is a unique identifier of the region to be added. Any string can be used.
Add	Click on this button to add the selected region in the main view to the current job
Select Boundary	Select the boundary to which the hole or control region will be added. This option will be active only when the region type will be selected as Hole or Control Region.
Target maximum	element size It’s the size of one side of a plate element to be created. This parameter will be used by mesh generation engine to generate plates. This option allows you to control meshing density and plate counts which in turn control analysis run time and output size.
Optimize based on area	(Triangular only) Select to have the program use an optimization technique based on area. By default, program optimize meshing based on element size.
Generate Mesh	Opens the Meshing Options dialog , which is used to generate mesh of the selected bounding region.
Edit Selected Region	Opens the Edit Meshing Region dialog .
Delete Selected Region	Removes the selected region from the meshing setup tree.

Add a meshing region in to the Meshing Setup tree

Generate a mesh for a boundary region

Edit geometry of a boundary region

Delete a boundary region from the meshing setup tree

Meshing Options dialog

Edit Meshing Region dialog

Parent topic: Mat Foundation group