Creates a rigid body mesh on surfaces.
Syntax
*rbody_mesh
mark_id min_size max_size max_chordal max_angle remesh mesh_type elem_comp
elem_order shared_edge_flag
Type
HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command
Description
Creates a rigid body mesh on surfaces.
Inputs
- mark_id
- The ID of the mark containing the surfaces to mesh. Valid values are 1 and 2.
- min_size
- The minimum element size.
- max_size
- The maximum element size.
- max_chordal
- The maximum allowed chordal deviation.
- max_angle
- The maximum feature angle.
- remesh
- 0 - Delete existing elements before mesh
- 1 - Do not delete existing elements before mesh
- mesh_type
- 0 - Trias
- 1 - Mixed
- elem_comp
- 0 - Organize elements in current component
- 1 - Organize elements in surface component(s)
- elem_order
- 1 - First
- 2 - Second
- shared_edge_flag
- For options 1-6 connectivity with existing mesh is broken:
- 0 - Allow node movement across shared edges, and ignore chordal deviation
- 1 - Do not allow node movement across shared edges, and ignore chordal deviation
- 2 - Allow node movement across suppressed edges, and ignore chordal deviation
- 3 - Allow node movement across shared edges, and keep chordal deviation
- 4 - Do not allow node movement across shared edges, and keep chordal deviation
- 5 - Allow node movement across suppressed edges, and keep chordal deviation
- 6 - Do not allow node movement across shared edges, do not allow edge swap in cleanup,
and keep chordal deviation
- Options 7 – 9 are currently unavailable.
- 10 – Same as option 0 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 11 – Same as option 1 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 12 – Same as option 2 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 13 – Same as option 3 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 14 – Same as option 4 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 15 – Same as option 5 but keep connectivity with existing mesh
- 16 – Same as option 15 and allow mesh refining to avoid intersections
Example
To create a first order rigid body mesh on surfaces 1-10, with minimum size of 0.5 and
maximum size of 30.0:
*createmark surfs 1 1-10
*rbody_mesh 1 0.5 30 0.1 15 1 1 1 1 2
Errors
Incorrect usage results in a
Tcl error. To detect
errors, you can use the
catch
command:
if { [ catch {command_name...} ] } {
# Handle error
}
Version History
2021.1 – Added new shared_edge_flag values 6, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.