Acoustic Cavity Mesh

Create a fluid volume mesh for the open-air volumes of an enclosed compartment, such as the passenger compartment of a vehicle.

Automesh

Create meshes or re-mesh existing meshing interactively or automatically on surfaces or groups of elements.

Bars

Create, review or update bar2 or bar3 elements.

Boolean Operation

Connect intersecting 2D elements. This tool works for triangular as well as quadrilateral elements.  

Coarsen Mesh

Simplify the mesh by combining many small elements into a smaller number of larger ones.

Comparison Tool

Perform a model-based CAD-CAD, CAD-FE or FE-FE comparison between two models, or two selections of entities. You can also use this tool to find and report on geometrical/shape differences.  

Create a 2D Element

Hand build, combine, split or modify elements.

Drag

Create a surface and/or mesh by dragging a series of nodes or lines, or to create elements by dragging selected elements.

Element Offset

Create and modify elements by offsetting from a mesh of plate or shell elements.

EM Lattice Mesh

Generate an axis-parallel mesh for 2D and 1D geometry input.

Gaps

Create gap elements.

Hole Detection

Enables you to locate and define many, or all, holes in a model and add those holes as geometry to a new component or the current one.

Hole/Gap Fill

Mesh holes, gaps, and patches.

Line Drag

Create a two or three dimensional surface and/or mesh or elements by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along another line.

Line Mesh

Create a chain of one dimensional elements such as beams along a line.

Linear 1D

Create one dimensional elements.

Linear 3D

Create solid elements between two groups of plate elements.

Masses

Create mass elements.

Mesh Controls

Define one model specific mesh setting, as well as an unlimited number of local mesh settings.

Midmesh Thickness

Calculate the thickness of a mid-mesh from the solid geometry.

Nodes

Create nodes using a wide variety of methods.

Periodic Mesh

Generate a grid containing rotational and/or translational symmetric boundaries, for example rotating machinery.

Quality Index

Calculates a single value to represent the quality of the displayed shell (2D) model.

Quality Index Calculations

The Quality Index value is a function of twelve criteria with user-defined weight factors.

Quality Report

Creates an HTML mesh quality report.

RBE3

Create, review and update RBE3 elements.

Refine by Pattern

Create a regular orthogonal mesh

Rigids

Create rigid or rigid link elements.

Rods

Create rod elements.

Ruled

Create surfaces and/or meshes of plate elements from nodes, lines and/or line segments, in any combination.

Shrink Wrap Mesh

Generate an enclosed volume or solid mesh and is typically used to approximate and simplify an existing mode.

Skin

Create a skin surface and/or mesh from a set of lines.

Solid Map Mesh

Create a mesh of solid elements in a solid geometric volume.

Spin

Create a surface and/or mesh or elements by spinning a series of nodes, a line or lines, or a group of elements about a vector to create a circular structure.

Spline

Create a shell mesh and/or surface.

Springs

Create spring elements.

TetraMesh

Fill an enclosed volume with first or second order tetrahedral elements.

TetraMesh Process

Create tetra-meshes efficiently and effectively.

Voxel Mesh

Fills an enclose volume with voxels (hexas) of a predefined size. This type of mesh is only useful in topology optimization. It does not give meaningful results in a stress analysis.