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Tutorial - 5: Meshing Without Surfaces

This tutorial teaches surface-less meshing using HyperMesh. It provides steps to mesh a bracket model that contains only line data without any surfaces. The steps include creating a concentric circle around a hole using the Scale panel, meshing between concentric circles with the Spline panel, meshing the back face using Line Drag, meshing the bottom face using Ruled, and meshing the rib using the Skin panel. The tutorial demonstrates how to mesh different geometries without needing surface definitions.

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Tutorial - 5: Meshing Without Surfaces

This tutorial teaches surface-less meshing using HyperMesh. It provides steps to mesh a bracket model that contains only line data without any surfaces. The steps include creating a concentric circle around a hole using the Scale panel, meshing between concentric circles with the Spline panel, meshing the back face using Line Drag, meshing the bottom face using Ruled, and meshing the rib using the Skin panel. The tutorial demonstrates how to mesh different geometries without needing surface definitions.

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Vishal V
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Tutorial -5

Meshing without Surfaces

In this tutorial, you will learn the basic concepts of surface-less meshing and how to mesh a bracket.
Surface-less meshing is defined as the creation of mesh using points, lines, and nodes rather than surfaces. Some parts may have missing
surfaces and some parts may not have any surfaces at all and are instead defined by line data. Either way, a mesh still must be created.
HyperMesh has a number of panels that allow you to create a mesh based on geometry other than surfaces

Exercise: Meshing a Bracket


This exercise uses the model file, bracket_line.hm. The model consists of only line data; no surfaces are present.

Step 1: Retrieve and view the model file


Take a few moments to observe the model using the different visual options available in HyperMesh (rotation, zooming, etc.).

Step 2: Create a concentric circle around a hole on the top face using the scale panel.
There are three circles on the upper region of the bracket representing three holes in the bracket. Two of the holes have concentric circles
around them. This configuration allows you to create a radial mesh pattern around the holes. The following steps will show you how to
create a concentric circle around the third hole.

1. Go to the Scale panel by doing one of the following:


i. From the menu bar, select Geometry > Scale > Lines
ii. On the main menu, select the Tool page and go to the Scale panel

2. Click uniform and enter 2.0 for the scale factor. And then click on Enter.
3. Press F4 (on your Keyboard) to go to the Distance panel.

4. Go to the three nodes subpanel.


5. Verify that the node selector N1 is active.

6. Move the mouse pointer to the graphics area. While keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the mouse pointer over the
circle representing the hole. When the mouse pointer changes to a square and the circle is highlighted, release the mouse button.
The circle remains highlighted. Left-click the highlighted circle to create a node for N1. Click twice more at different locations on
the line to create nodes N2 and N3.

7. Click circle center.

A node is created at the circles center. This node will be selected as the origin node when the circle is duplicated and scaled.

8. Click return to go back to the Scale panel.


9. Switch the entity type to lines.

10. In the graphics area, select the circle.

11. Click lines >> duplicate >> original comp.

12. Click the origin: node selector to make it active.

13. Select the temporary node you created as the circles center.
14. Click scale +.
A new circle is created, which is concentric with the original.
15. Click return.

Step 3: Create a radial mesh between each of the concentric circles using the spline panel.
1. Go to the Spline panel by doing one of the following:
i. From the menu bar, click Mesh > Create > 2D Elements > Spline.
ii. On the main menu, select the 2D page and go to the Spline panel.

2. With the entity type set to lines, select all lines as shown in the figure.

3. Switch from mesh, keep surf to mesh, dele surf.

This option creates surfaces based on the selected entities, uses the surfaces to create a mesh, and then deletes the surfaces.
4. Make sure the keep tangency checkbox is unselected.
5. Click create.
The meshing module appears. Element edge density numbers appear on the selected lines.
6. Click return.
7. Now you are still in the spline panel.
8. Now select all the six circular lines. As shown below.

9. Then click on create.


10. Now you will be in the density panel, Here in the elem density = enter 8. Then click on set all to and then click on mesh.

11. Click return twice to exit the spline panel.

Step 5: Mesh the back face of the bracket using the line drag panel.
1. To go to the Line Drag panel, do one of the following:
i. From the menu bar, select Mesh > Create > 2D Elements > Line Drag.
ii. On the main menu, select the 2D page and enter the Line Drag panel.

2. Go to the drag geoms subpanel.

3. Switch the drag: entity type from node list to line list.

4. Select the line that is on the perimeter of the existing mesh and adjacent to the brackets back face.

5. Click the along: line list selector to make it active.


6. Select one of the two lines defining the back face that are perpendicular to the selected line to drag.

7. Leave the toggle set to use default vector.


8. Leave the creation method set to mesh, w/o surf.
9. Click drag.

The meshing module appears.

10. Click return twice to accept the mesh and exit the panel.

Mesh of top and back faces

Step 6: Mesh the bottom face of the bracket using the ruled panel.
1. To go to the Ruled panel, do one of the following:
i. From the menu bar, select Mesh > Create > 2D Elements > Ruled.
ii. On the main menu, select the 2D page and enter the Ruled panel.

2. Make sure the upper entity type is set to node list.

3. Click node list and select by path.

The entity selector changes to node path.

4. Select the end nodes located on the back face edge that borders the bottom face, as indicated in the following image.
All the nodes between the two selected nodes are automatically selected.

5. Now select the second entity selector as line. And select the line opposite to the nodes as shown in the image below.

6. Click create.
7. Click return twice to exit the ruled panel.

Step 7: Mesh the rib using the skin panel

1. To go to the Skin panel, do one of the following:


i. From the menu bar, select Mesh > Create > 2D Elements > Skin.
ii. On the main menu, select the 2D page and enter the Skin panel.

2. With the line list selector active, select any two of the three lines defining the rib.

3. Switch the creation method from mesh, keep surf to mesh, dele surf.

4. Leave the toggle set to auto reverse.


5. Click create.
6. The meshing module appears.

7. Click return to accept the mesh and exit the panel.

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