{"id":307041,"date":"2023-09-15T21:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-never-finishes-with-a-slightly-smaller-element-size\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T01:25:12","slug":"mesh-never-finishes-with-a-slightly-smaller-element-size","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-never-finishes-with-a-slightly-smaller-element-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesh never finishes with a slightly smaller element size."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">I am creating a mesh convergence study on a shell body in ANSYS Mechanical and refining it in certain areas with edge and face sizing. I&#8217;ve been able to mesh it with element sizes of 0.4 mm (63384 elements), 0.35 mm (70469 elements), and 0.33 mm (73675 elements) with no trouble; it took only a couple of minutes to finish, but when I try to set the element size to 0.32 mm, it never finishes. I left it overnight (8+ hours), and it was still stuck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">I have done meshes with a much larger number of elements (200k+) with no problem. Does anyone know why this could be happening? Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-307041","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-mesh","topic-tag-meshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I am creating a mesh convergence study on a shell body in ANSYS Mechanical and refining it in certain areas with edge and face sizing. 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