Smoothing transition from quadrilateral elements to triangular elements

- June 28, 2020 at 1:36 pm
  
  AndreasLyng11
  Subscriber
  
  Hello All
  
  I have meshed a 3D model of a butt weld via. submerged arc welding. The mesh were generated by sweeping the square volumes with quadrilateral elements and using triangular elements in the weld. I want to refine/smoothen the transition between quadrilateral elements and triangular elements. The mesh are seen below together with the areas where refinement is needed (marked with red)
- June 29, 2020 at 5:02 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  As ANSYS Staff, we can not download attachments. Please insert images using insert image functionality.
  
  you will need to increase size of tet elements or reduce size of hex elements.
  
  please see help manual on definining sizing.
  
  also check following for sizing.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4q6q8nKF3U
  
  Regards,
  
  Keyur
  
  If this helps, please mark this post as 'Is Solution' to help others.
  
  Guidelines on the Student Community
  
  How to access ANSYS help links
- July 6, 2020 at 3:21 pm
  
  AndreasLyng11
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you very much!