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Mid Surface Mesh

This document provides instructions for meshing a midsurface in multiple steps: 1) Create a midsurface manually by selecting surface pairs or automatically using progressive face pairing, 2) Display the FEM file and show only the midsurface, 3) Mesh the midsurface using CQUAD4 shell elements with an element size of 1 and split quads for mesh quality.

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Mid Surface Mesh

This document provides instructions for meshing a midsurface in multiple steps: 1) Create a midsurface manually by selecting surface pairs or automatically using progressive face pairing, 2) Display the FEM file and show only the midsurface, 3) Mesh the midsurface using CQUAD4 shell elements with an element size of 1 and split quads for mesh quality.

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Mid Surface Mesh

Activity: Mesh a midsurface


You will learn how to:
• Manually create a midsurface.
• Automatically create a midsurface.
• Stitch a midsurface.
• Mesh a midsurface.

Launch the Mesh a midsurface activity.

Mesh a midsurface
Open the part
File

Open

Files of type Part Files (*.prt)

File name midsurface.prt

OK

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File
All Applications→Advanced Simulation

Mesh a midsurface
Reset the dialog box memory
The options you select in NX dialog boxes are preserved for the next time you open the
same dialog box within an NX session. Restore the default settings to ensure that the dialog
boxes are in the expected initial state for each step of the activity.

Menu

Preferences→User Interface

Reset Dialog Memory

OK

Mesh a midsurface
Create the FEM and Simulation files

Simulation Navigator

midsurface.prt

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New FEM and Simulation

Create Idealized Part

Solver NX NASTRAN

Analysis Type Structural

OK New FEM and Simulation dialog box

OK Solution dialog box

Save (Quick Access toolbar)

Mesh a midsurface
Display the idealized part

Simulation Navigator

Simulation File View

midsurface_fem1_i

Make Displayed Part

OK Idealized Part Warning message box


Note If necessary, click Fit

to ensure the whole part is displayed in the graphics window.

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Mesh a midsurface
Promote the idealized part
Before you can modify the idealized part, you must place an associative copy of the master
part file in the idealized part file. To do this, you can use the Promote command or the
Wave Link command.

Promote (Start group)

the body

OK

Mesh a midsurface
Create a midsurface using the manual method
You can create midsurfaces using both manual and automatic methods. Manual midsurface
creation is mainly used when the automatic methods fail to produce the desired results.

Midsurface by Face Pairs (Geometry Preparation group)

the body

Strategy Manual

Face Rule Single Face

Tip The Face Rule list

is located on the Top Border bar.

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Face (Select Side 2 Face)

Face Rule Single Face

Create Face Pair


The surface (face) pair is listed in the dialog box.

The following animation shows the selection of surface pairs for the remainder of the
model. Rather than continuing with the manual selection, delete the surface pair that you
just created.

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Face Pair List

Pairing Type (Trimming Type)


Manual Pair (Standard)(1)

Delete Face Pair


Leave the Midsurface by Face Pairs dialog box open for the next step.

Mesh a midsurface
Create a midsurface using tangent faces
The Midsurface by Face Pairs dialog box is still open from the previous step.

Face Rule Tangent Faces

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All 14 surfaces that make up the top side of the part are selected because of their tangent
relationship to each other.

Face (Select Side 2 Face)

Face Rule Tangent Faces

Create Face Pair


The midsurface is created through the entire model using the single midsurface pair that
contains all top and bottom surfaces in a single pair.

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Using the steps you learned previously, delete the midsurface pair so that you can use
automatic creation.
Leave the Midsurface by Face Pairs dialog box open for the next step.

Mesh a midsurface
Create a midsurface using the automatic method
The Midsurface by Face Pairs dialog box is still open from the previous step.

Face Pairing

Strategy Progressive

Automatically Create Face Pairs


The same midsurface is created as in the previous step, but it is made up of one
automatically created face pair.

OK

Mesh a midsurface
Display the FEM file

Simulation Navigator

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Simulation File View

midsurface_fem1

Make Displayed Part

the Information window, if necessary

Mesh a midsurface
Display the midsurface

Simulation Navigator

Polygon Geometry (expand)

Polygon Body (1) (deselect)

Now only the midsurface is displayed.

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Mesh a midsurface
Mesh the midsurface

2D Mesh (Mesh group)

Drag a selection box around the midsurface.

Type CQUAD4

Element Size 1

Mesh Quality Options

Split Quads

OK

The 2D mesh is generated on the midsurface.


File
Close→All Parts
You completed the activity.

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