Reduce Your Mesh Time

File: PVE-4061
Last Updated: Jan 1 2010
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Inside view of a storage sphere

Front view of the storage sphere.

This 25ft diameter storage sphere with unusual legs is solid meshed. At a 5" element size (the element size that will mesh), it takes 172 seconds to mesh. The bad news is that a smaller mesh is require in a number of locations. When the overall element sizeis reduced to 3", it takes 1002 seconds to mesh.

Front view - Nodes = 123,000, Elements = 61,000, 172 seconds to mesh

Detail meshed at 3" size - Nodes = 318,000, Elements = 158,000, 1002 seconds to mesh

Splitting large objects into smaller items can reduce the mesh time. Here the sphere is split into 6 and 12 pieces.

The sphere split into 6 bodies

The sphere split into 12 bodies

The mesh times go down significantly as the sphere is split into smaller bodies.

6 body sphere at 5 inch mesh - mesh time is 46 seconds (127,000 nodes, 63,000 elements)

12 body sphere at 3 inch mesh - mesh time is 161 seconds (326,000 nodes, 163,000 elements)

Summary of all mesh time data. The reduced body size makes a huge difference as the number of elements increases.

Reducing the body sizes can have a huge impact as the number of elements exceeds 1 million...