A new Meshing Application in ANSYS Workbench provides access to many of the ANSYS meshing tools in a single location. A different “Meshing Method” can be applied to each part in the geometry. All meshes will be written back to a common database (.cmdb) that can be opened in CFX-Pre. The available Meshing methods are: Automatic, All Tet, Hex dominant, Sweep, and CFX-Mesh. CFX-Mesh integration enables you to launch CFX-Mesh on a part in a separate tab using a right-click operation. Volume Mesh can be generated in CFX-Mesh and committed back to the Meshing Application. These meshing capabilities are also available in the standard Simulation tab (correct licenses required).

A meshing options panel that appears when the meshing application is first opened and the ANSYS Workbench preferences area enable you to set a preferred meshing method. CFX customers should use CFX-Mesh or the Patch Independent mesher as their preferred method.