3D Mesh Datasheet0 pages

Product Highlights
.. Automated 3D mesh generation
.. 3D volume, surface and curve mesh
.. Wide-variety of element sizing controls
and refi nement
.. Integrated with ACIS® and HOOPS
.. Thread-safe component
Surface Meshing
3D Volume Meshing
DATA SHEET
Product Overview
3D Mesh is an object-based software
development toolkit providing fullyconfi
gurable surface and volumetric
meshing capabilities. The component is
optimized for pre-processing within a
wide-range of applications with computeraided
engineering (CAE) requirements
including structural analysis, heat
transfer, computational fl uid dynamics
and electronic design automation (EDA).
3D Mesh provides fast, automatic mesh
generation for arbitrary curves, surfaces
and volumes. It also provides mapped
mesh, boundary layer and extrusion mesh
generation for specialized geometry. The
component is thread-safe, enabling multithreaded
applications to take advantage
of multi-core hardware platforms to
deliver unsurpassed performance. 3D
Mesh is licensed from Visual Kinematics,
Inc.
Industry Proven
3D Mesh provides a wide-range of
meshing capabilities to meet specifi c
industry requirements. Mesh refi nement
and sizing control is supported with any
combination of global element size,
minimum element size, curvature based
sizing and growth rate parameters. Further
refi nement is possible thru specifi c sizing
control placed on any number of arbitrary
locations in space as well as a user defi ned
function of spatial coordinates. 3D Mesh
includes unique defeaturing and healing
capabilities that can be performed on
both the 3D geometry and the mesh.
3D Volume Meshing
3D Volume meshing is provided for
applications such as mechanical
engineering stress analysis (10 node
parabolic tetrahedra), fl uid fl ow and
electronic TCAD analysis (4 node linear
tetrahedra).
Specifi c capabilities include:
.. Fully automatic tetrahedral meshing
.. Target edge length and growth rate
.. Input geometry from surface mesher
as linear or parabolic boundary
triangles
- Interior hard points, lines and
triangles
.. Linear or parabolic output
tetrahedra
.. Boundary triangulation unchanged
in output grid by default
.. Adaptive mesh refi nement
Surface Meshing
3D Mesh provides both curve and
surface meshing for applications such as
electronic method of moments analysis
(3 nodes triangles, 4 node quads) and
aircraft structures/automotive body
panels (4 node quads).
Capabilities include the ability to:
.. Generate linear or parabolic triangles
and/or quadrilaterals
.. Incorporate arbitrary user defi ned
points and edges into mesh
- Snap to edge or face
- Trimming loops or scratches
.. Control element size
- Target edge length, minimum
or maximum edge length
- Maximum spanning angle,
minimum included angle
- Growth rate
.. Optionally control edge length on
any ACIS geometry entity
.. Simplify or coarsen mesh
.. Optional geometry defeaturing
removes small geometry resulting
in fewer distorted elements and
reduced element count
3D Mesh
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