{"id":161553,"date":"2023-01-25T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-mesh-a-stl-geometry-in-ansys-meshing-inside-workbench\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:29","slug":"how-to-mesh-a-stl-geometry-in-ansys-meshing-inside-workbench","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-mesh-a-stl-geometry-in-ansys-meshing-inside-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"How to mesh a STL geometry in ANSYS Meshing inside Workbench?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When importing a STL geometry into ANSYS DesignModeler (DM) or ANSYS SpaceClaim (SCDM), then the geometry is just a facetted surface.  Opening this facetted surface in ANSYS Meshing reduces the available meshing methods to patch-independent tetra, body-fitted cartesian and layered tet.  For access to all meshing methods, it is required to convert the STL facets into a body. In SCDM this is achieved by the right mouse button menu &#8220;Convert to Solid&#8221; In DM this is achieved by using the body operation &#8220;Sew&#8221; which will convert the STL surface to a solid when successfull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161553","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-2020-r1","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-meshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["1-24-2023  20:20:09"],"_btv_view_count":["3771"],"siebel_km_number":["2062392"],"product_version":["2020 R1"],"km_published_date":["2020-03-09T18:45:26.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["Meshing"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161553","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\/161553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}