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 |
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Meshing Setup tree |
This tree displays the hierarchy of all regions which have been added as boundaries, holes, or control regions. |
Region types |
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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 |