HEXAMESH Tools
HexaMesh Tools provide CATIA V5 analysis users with a set of tools dedicated to producing hexahedron meshes.
Main features
Manual meshing
Meshing operations on nodes:
- creation by coordinates, by selection of an existing node or by transformation of existing nodes
- deletion of nodes
- modification of position by specifying new coordinates or by applying a transformation
- condensation on destination nodes
Meshing operations on volume elements:
- creation by selecting nodes, extrusion of faces of element or transformation of existing 3D
elements
- deletion of elements
- splitting of hexahedrons
Full support of spec – update paradigm:
- “Manual Mesh Part” feature used to group manual operations
- each manual meshing operation is captured in a feature
- possibility of selection of advanced nodes and elements enables the stability of selection during the updates
Semi-automatic meshing
Three families of capabilities:
- mesh part by operators to modify the result of a 3D mesh part
- meshing by transformation of an existing 3D mesh (including symmetry)
- meshing by extrusion of an existing 2D mesh
Very flexible input specifications:
- input mesh selection by mesh part, group, BRep or mechanical feature
- implicit geometry characteristics can be used (e.g. the axis of a cylindrical face)
Supported transformations are translation, rotation, offset, along a curve and projection
Mesh capture with a tolerance
Uniform, arithmetic and geometric layer distributions
Symmetric layers
Automatic hexahedron meshing
Uses the fully automatic hexahedron mesher KUBRIX
The mesher takes as inputs either a selection of geometries or a selection of triangular meshes
The resulting mesh is associative to the input geometries and can be transparently used in GPS
A local mesh size can be specified using a box
General
Full integration with GPS
Support of journaling
Access to all capabilities via VB Scripting
Full integration with KnowledgeWare