{"id":290550,"date":"2023-06-27T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-edge-grading-of-rotated-edges-in-icem-cfd\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:23:32","slug":"how-to-preserve-edge-grading-of-rotated-edges-in-icem-cfd","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-preserve-edge-grading-of-rotated-edges-in-icem-cfd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to preserve edge grading of rotated edges in ICEM CFD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 2D axi-symmetric geometry for which I am generating block-structured mesh in ICEM. I am converting this 2D block setup to a 3D block setup by rotating the 2D blocks using a dedicated option in ICEM.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed that the edge grading consisting of growth ratios and linked edges in 2D is not preserved when the blocks are rotated to 3D.<\/p>\n<p>I specifically want to use this approach because keeping a track of blocks and associations in 3D model is too complicated and time consuming. The 2D to 3D pathway helps me a lot but I lose the grading information I generated in 2D.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, this grading should be preserved when the rotation is done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I cannot use any other meshing tool and for my application, a block-structured mesh is needed.<\/p>\n<p>How can I solve this problem ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-290550","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-icem-cfd-structured-mesh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["7817","8124","289810"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.154"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["618"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["290550"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["7817","8124","289810"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["8"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["298504"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["298504"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-08-07 11:45:26"]},"test":"ian9le-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/290550","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\/290550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}