Reply To: “Warning some of the elements on the problematic bodies cant meet the specificied target metric”

[peteroznewman]

The mesher tries to create elements that meet many shape quality criteria but it is unable to do so with your geometry.

Click on Mesh, under the Quality category is Mesh Metric. Select one such as skewness and the Mesh Metrics window will open where you can look at where the worst skewed elements are in your mesh and how bad is the metric. If the elements have unacceptable quality and are in the area of peak stress, then you should add mesh controls to refine the mesh in that region.

Sometimes, you can help the mesher make good quality elements by deleting unimportant faces such as the outside rounds on all the flat plates.