{"id":158527,"date":"2022-06-06T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-do-you-turn-a-rectangular-surface-mesh-into-a-triangular-surface-mesh\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:32:53","slug":"how-do-you-turn-a-rectangular-surface-mesh-into-a-triangular-surface-mesh","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-do-you-turn-a-rectangular-surface-mesh-into-a-triangular-surface-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you turn a rectangular surface mesh into a triangular surface mesh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Fluent Meshing, there is an option to change a surface mesh made with a rectangular mesh into one made of a triangular mesh. The following steps are done in the GUI: <br \/>1. Go to Boundary > Mesh > Triangulate <br \/>2. The Triangulate Zones panel opens <br \/>3. In Boundary Zones, the area created by the rectangular mesh is displayed. Select all the areas you want to convert to triangles and click Apply <br \/>The above process makes the rectangular surface mesh a triangular surface mesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-158527","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fluent-meshing","topic-tag-surface-meshing","topic-tag-workbench-meshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153047"],"_btv_view_count":["7192"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}