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[MickMack]

Hi,

I have applied adaptive sizing to a beam (BEAM188) and shell (SHELL181) model and the mesh seems to be ok, although i will be making some more refinements. I include a snippet below for context.

[1shan]

,nAdaptive sizing refines edges based on curvature and proximity but does not carry this refinement along the face to which the edge is attached. So you might have a mesh which captures the edge geometry accurately but with a poor face mesh. In such cases you could use hard face sizing controls which override the sizing functions for adaptive meshing along the face. you could do this by mesh>insert>sizing, specify the desired element size and scope to the the required face. In your case the mesh looks good but if you wish to refine it further you could either increase the resolution(which will refine globally) or add local sizing control.nRegards,nIshan.n

[MickMack]

Thank you,nYour response is excellent.nI thought the mesh looked okay but i was concerned about the warning in the mesh user guide. In the context of my model i think the adaptive sizing works well, most likely because there are no solids or curves.nnIs there any video tutorials/discussions you could recommend for best practice using the mesh sizing controls? i have been experimenting with these but i am not getting the mesh sizes on the elements that i desire.nnThanks,nMichaeln