A surface represents the geometry associated with a physical part. A surface is a two-dimensional geometric entity that
may be used in automatic mesh generation.
Use the Surfaces: Patch tool to create patch surfaces between free lines that are not connected or surface edges. You can also delete
surfaces with this tool.
Solids are closed volume of surfaces that can take any shape. Solids are three-dimensional entities that can be used in
automatic tetra and solid meshing.
Use the Revolve tool to create axisymmetric revolved regions around select solid bodies. This is useful for creating
regions around rotating bodies like fans, impellers, wheels, and so on.
Use the Midsurfaces tool to extract the midsurface of sheet metal stampings, molded plastic parts with ribs, and other parts that have
thickness clearly smaller than width and length.
Once the baseline model is prepared, you can define morph volumes, morph geometry, create design shapes and run DOE
studies. These tool work for both AcuSolve and ultraFluidX-based workflows.
A surface represents the geometry associated with a physical part. A surface is a two-dimensional geometric entity that
may be used in automatic mesh generation.
Use the Surfaces: Patch tool to create patch surfaces between free lines that are not connected or surface edges. You can also delete
surfaces with this tool.
Use the Surfaces: Patch tool
to create patch surfaces between free lines that are not connected or surface edges. You can
also delete surfaces with this tool.
New surfaces are organized in the same component as the first line
selected.
From the Geometry ribbon, click the Surfaces > Patch tool.
To manually patch surfaces, do one of the following:
While left-clicking, drag an edge to another edge.
Hovering over a
target line displays a preview surface.
Select multiple edges around a missing surface, then click an edge that
has already been selected.
Select multiple edges or loops, then click Patch
All on the guide bar.
Double-click an edge loop.
Tip: After a patch surface has been manually created, it remains
selected. HyperMesh CFD attempts to select the appropriate
tangency setting for the surface created, but you can change the tangency by
clicking on the surface while it is still selected.
To automatically highlight and patch missing surfaces:
Click Find on the guide bar.
Click and
to cycle
through found surfaces.
Select highlighted surfaces to fix them individually or click
Patch All on the guide bar.
Check Create mesh to automatically
open the 2D meshing tool after creating surfaces. After you finish meshing, exit
the tool to return to Geometry.
To delete surfaces:
Select the surface(s) you want to delete.
Click the highlighted surface(s) again to delete them.
Patch Surfaces Using the Context Menu
Quickly patch surface holes without opening the Surfaces:
Patch tool.
Navigate to the Geometry ribbon.
While in idle mode, select the surfaces to patch.
Right-click in the modeling window and select Edit > Patch Holes from the context menu.