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Patran Surface Meshing
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Patran Surface Meshing

Patran Surface Meshing

(OP)
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

RE: Patran Surface Meshing

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I think one way to do that is to first mesh the surface. Patran will ignore the points, especially if they are not associated with the surface.

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

(OP)
franc11hd
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

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