Back for another addition of Simulation 2010 What’s New. Today’s episode covers meshing enhancements. Enjoy!

Curvature-based mesher
There are some improvements to the curvature-based mesher. Compatible meshing is now supported for touching solid faces. Previously, all curvature based meshes were incompatible. The curvature-based mesher now checks for interferences between components. If there are interferences, the following dialog pops up:

Clicking “Yes” puts you into the interference detection dialog box. The curvature mesher handles small features better than it did in previous versions.

Mixed Meshing
The mesh is now compatible between shells and beams that act as stiffeners.

Memory Usage
The mesher now uses memory more efficiently. The following chart from the What’s New document shows the results of running an h-adaptive mesh on Windows XP 32 bit:

Shell mesh
You can again define shells by selecting the surface of a solid body. This is something that they took away in the 2009 version. In 2009, only sheet metal of surface bodies could be defined as shells. Enough people must have complained to get them to bring this back.

Mesh Progress Window
They have changed the look of the Mesh Progress Window. It now shows memory usage, elapsed time, the number of components that failed to mesh, and mesh progress.

That wraps up the discussion of mesh imporvements in Simulation 2010. As always, if you have any questions about anything discussed here, refer to the What’s New documentation or direct questions to us on the support line. See you next time!

Tags: 2010 What's New, 3DVision, Seth Bischoff, SolidWorks Simulation

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