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Weird mesh on straigth sections...

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plvachon

Mechanical
Jun 16, 2005
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Hi Pro/M lovers,

I experienced a weird problem with the automatic meshing of Pro/M. The model is a Z-shaped lever made with a rectangular rod, so the model (built on Pro/E) has 3 straigth sections and 2 fillets. The problem comes with the meshing operation: the mesher creates several nodes on the fillets, but nothing on the straigth sections, so these straigth bars have super-stretched elements since their nodes are on each end of the straigth section... I've never experienced such a problem before, so I'm wondering if I changed something in the settings, causing this problem to occur. The elements are tetrahedral.

Thanks.
 
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Well Justkeep, I solved my problem. I just have to check the "Insert points" option in the Autogem settings. I don't know why this option was not checked by default in this model, I never had to check it by myself before.

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