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[Wucherer-S]

Hi, 

I want to achieve a higher smoothing of the deformation area of the total deformation of my model. Currently I try to mesh the mesh to deform with the hex dominant method. 

The solution of the total deformation of my model looks like this

And its mesh output as an stl like this

As can be seen in the second image, the imprint area of the stl export looks still quite coarse. Is there a way to improve its smoothness by a post processing routine or setting different meshing parameters?

Thank you for your help!

Stefanie 

 

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

 

There are some nice tools in Spaceclaim and Discovery that can be perhaps used here to do some smoothing .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdktV89hhlA

 

Search the internet for more tutorials.

 

All the best

 

Erik

 

PS if you have any questions on that post in the 3D design forum (which is for CAD) 

[Wucherer-S]

Thank you for your answer. 

Is there a way to integrate it into the existing pipeline to smooth the output of the solution. 

Thank you!

[peteroznewman]

Add a local mesh sizing control to force smaller elements to be created around the deformation zone. That will cause smaller facets to be created in the STL export of the deformed shape and they will be smoother than the large facets from the current mesh.  Then as Erik mentioned, the facets can be further smoothed using the tools on the Facets tab of SpaceClaim.