*hmmeshsurfacesphere

Within the automeshing module, generates quad or tria elements using a surfaceless algorithm. Can only be used with *surfacemode(3) and one of the *surfacesphere...() commands.

Syntax

*hmmeshsurfacesphere quads

Type

HyperMesh Tcl Modify

Description

Within the automeshing module, generates quad or tria elements using a surfaceless algorithm. Can only be used with *surfacemode(3) and one of the *surfacesphere...() commands.

Inputs

quads: If nonzero, specifies that the created elements should be quads.

Example

This example identifies a spherical region passing through the given four nodes, and, without actually building a surface, creates 150 elements with a density of 15 along a longitude and 10 around the equator:

*surfacemode(3)
*createlist(nodes,1) 159 141 178 228
*surfacespherefromfournodes(1)
  *setedgemeshparams(0,15,0)
  *setedgemeshparams(1,10,0)
  *setedgemeshparams(2,15,0)
  *setedgemeshparams(3,10,0)
  *hmmeshsurfacesphere(1)
  *storeAMelemstodatabase(0)
*ameshclearsurface()

The densities specified by the commands must be equal for opposite edges.

*surfacemode(3) tells the automesher not to expect an actual surface.

Errors

None.