{"id":278036,"date":"2023-04-05T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/icem-cfd-difference-between-3d-free-block-type-and-volume-mesh-octree-etc\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T18:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:40:28","slug":"icem-cfd-difference-between-3d-free-block-type-and-volume-mesh-octree-etc","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/icem-cfd-difference-between-3d-free-block-type-and-volume-mesh-octree-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"ICEM CFD &#8211; Difference between 3D free block type and volume mesh (Octree etc)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a geometry that I can mostly block for a structured mesh, but I have one part\/zone that should just get tetrahedral mesh (even if later merged to some mixture of hex and polyhedral cells). I think I would prefer to set up a block in the one zone and assign it a type of &#8220;3d free block&#8221;.&nbsp; Should I instead use the volume (unstructured) mesh operation for the one zone and then merge it with my blocked mesh?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-278036","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-blocking-1","topic-tag-hexa-mesh","topic-tag-icem-cfd","topic-tag-preprocessing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["47338","199842","62"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.77.218.237"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["663"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["278036"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","47338","199842"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["278291"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["278291"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-04-07 05:34:57"]},"test":"timothy-braunge-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/278036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/278036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}