We have an exciting announcement about badges coming in May 2025. Until then, we will temporarily stop issuing new badges for course completions and certifications. However, all completions will be recorded and fulfilled after May 2025.
General

General

The pre-mesh quality check for determinants indicates negative determinants, but when highlighting the histogram bars below zero they do not appear inverted.

    • FAQFAQ
      Participant

      This is because the block itself has a left-handed orientation. If you select additional negative determinant histogram bars, they will appear to fill an entire block. The left-handed blocks occur from bottom-up operations such as creating blocks, merging vertices and entire topologies, and copying blocks. They are easily made into right handed blocks by using “Blocking [tab]>Block Checks>Fix Inverted Blocks.” These can also be fixed by writing an unstructured mesh and using “Edit Mesh [tab]>Check Mesh>Volume orientations.” When it finds orientation problems, choose the automatic “fix.”