HD45196: FEM / SWEEP 3D MESH DOES NOT PRODUCE CONSISTENT OUTPUT.

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• FEM / SWEEP 3D MESH DOES NOT PRODUCE
  CONSISTENT OUTPUT.
  .
  SCENARIO:
  1.Delete All CATSettings.
  2.Start CATIA.
  3.Open the Document Part1.CATPart.
  4.Go to Advanced Meshing Tools Workbench.
  5.Click on Advanced Surface Mesher icon.
  6.Keep mesh size=1mm, check Minimize triangles,
  strip optimization, Directional mesh and automatic
  mesh capture.
  7.Keep the sag 0.2 mm.
  8.Click on boundary simplifications and check the
  lateral face and the bottom face of the cylinder.
  9.Click on imposed elements, select the boundary
  of the upper face and enter 32 as number of
  imposed nodes.
  10.Click on Mesh part.
  11.Mesh is obtained
  12.Click on sweep 3D mesh icon.
  13.Select the bottom and the top face.
  14.Enter angle=90 and layer=5
  15.Click on compute
  16.Click Okay
  17.Close the document.
  18.Open the file galet.CATAnalysis in CATIA.
  19.In the specification tree, we see that the sweep
  mesh has failed.
  20.Double click on it, the error message is
  displayed.
  21.Close the document.
  22.Now start again with step 3 till step 16.
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Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• Incident Diagnosis
  Sweep 3D mesh produce different result because
  mesh parameters ( capture tolerance ) are different
  .
  Correct Application
  Sweep 3D mesh is consistent for the same
  geometry and mesh part parameters
  .
  Documentation Reference
  Advanced Meshing Tools
  User Tasks
  Solid Meshing
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APAR Information

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• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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