Patran Surface Meshing
Patran Surface Meshing
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Hi
I was looking for some help with Patran surface meshing. I have some points associated to a surface. When I mesh the surface the mesh ignores the points. I cannot create a mesh seed from the points (or nodes) on the interior of a surface. Patran will only let me create a mesh seed on a curve.
Does anybody know the best way to create mesh seed points on the interior of a surface.
Thanks
dave
I was looking for some help with Patran surface meshing. I have some points associated to a surface. When I mesh the surface the mesh ignores the points. I cannot create a mesh seed from the points (or nodes) on the interior of a surface. Patran will only let me create a mesh seed on a curve.
Does anybody know the best way to create mesh seed points on the interior of a surface.
Thanks
dave





RE: Patran Surface Meshing
Then you can use Element - Create - Mesh - On Mesh and in the feature selection choose hard node and pick the nodes (or points) you want the mesh to consider.
It should work although I have never tried it. But been told by MSC that it works.
Good luck.
RE: Patran Surface Meshing
thanks very much for that. I tried it and it worked very well.
Before this I was projecting nodes to the surface - creating points at the nodes - associating points with surface. I could then mesh to those nodes but only with a Paver mesh. Iso mesh would not work.
But this method allows me to do this for both surface types.
Thanks again. It was a great help.
Dave