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[Sebastian Pearson]

I'm trying to mesh simple bracket, and want all of the elements to be hex elements, however I keep getting tet elements, or the mesh fails to generate when I change the settings. I've added seeding which to me makes it look pretty straightforward to mesh hex elements. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there some way to force hex elements only, as that should do the trick?

 

 

Note: I've got experience meshing on similar software such as abaqus and I found it pretty easy to do the hex meshing on this shape there.

[Ankush Choudhary]

Hi Sebastian,

Can you please try changing the mesh method from automatic to MultiZone?

For further information, please follow Ansys documentation on MultiZone meshing.

Thanks,

Ankush

[Sebastian Pearson]

Thanks for the reply Ankush. I tried that before and I think it generated something, but the hexahedra werent uniform rectangles which is what i was hoping for, and is the type of result I have managed to acheive on other FE software.