Running the Trimmed Cell Mesher

The trimmer and prism layer meshers can now be run:

As before, the output from the meshers will be shown in the Output window and status updated in the status bar. When the process is complete, the message Reordering faces in region Region 1...done will be shown in the Output window. A summary of the mesh quality criteria (namely, the cell quality, face validity, skewness angle and volume ratio) for the core and prism meshes can be viewed by scrolling the Output window display up.

The current geometry scene should automatically be updated with the new volume mesh result:

A close up of the trimmed cell mesh in the valve area is shown below:

As can be seen in the close up, a uniform cell size has been maintained around the valve area, resulting from the 4% of base size specification for both the minimum and target surface size.

If you included the analysis portion of the previous polyhedral meshing section then the solution will have been automatically mapped to the new trimmed cell volume mesh.

This completes the first meshing tutorial.