Hex mesh ignoring faces

Hi everyone!

In my experience, this meshing problem occurs when converting a strongly curved surfece (like cylinder) to STL mesh.
On the other hand, CAD files like STP and IGES did not work well on SimScale CFD meshing for my projects.

So I use STL files for CFD meshing that exported from CAD with adjusting parameters.
I often adjust the parameters as below when this kind of problem occurs.

  • Maximum edge length : smaller
  • Maximum distance, edge to surface : smaller

( I use Rhinoceros for surface modeling, and I do not know how they provided in your CAD (solidworks?), Sorry. )

If the STL file does not improve even if adjusting the export parameters,
I divide those surfaces on my CAD so that the influences of the of surface curves will be less.

This may not be the ideal answer because it is not a method to solve it on SimScale alone.

Best,
Yosuke

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