Why meshing workbench?

It is provided so that we can achieve good meshing with different tools, which will help in
simplify the efficient mesh generation in Ansys WB.

Meshing by type: Assembly label, Part label,

Meshing by algorithm: Patch conforming, Patch independent.

Size Functions
Adaptive Meshing
The ANSYS program provides approximate techniques for automatically estimating mesh discretization
error for certain types of analyses. Using this measure of mesh discretization error, the program can then
determine if a particular mesh is fine enough. If it is not, the program will automatically refine the mesh
so that the measured error will decrease. This process of automatically evaluating mesh discretization
error and refining the mesh, called adaptive meshing, continues through a series of solutions until the
measured error drops below some user-defined value (or until a user-defined limit on the number of
solutions is reached).

Curvature Size Function

The curvature size function examines curvature on edges and faces and computes element sizes on
these entities such that the size will not violate the maximum size or the curvature normal angle, which
are either automatically computed by the mesher or defined by the user.

Proximity Size Function

The proximity size function allows you to specify the minimum number of element layers created in
regions that constitute “gaps” in the model. For the purposes of specifying a proximity size function, a
“gap” is defined in one of two ways:
• The internal volumetric region between two faces
• The area between two opposing boundary edges of a face

Uniform Size Function

The uniform size function does not refine the mesh based on curvature or proximity. Rather, you specify
minimum and maximum sizes and gradation is provided between sizes based on a specified growth
rate.
The Physics Preference option allow to establish how Workbench will perform meshing based
on the physics of the analysis type that you specify. Available options are:
Mechanical, Electromagnetic, CFD, Explicit, and Nonlinear Mechanical. The value of
the Physics Preference option sets the default for various meshing controls, as detailed in the
following table.

Relevance Center

Relevance Center sets the gauge of the Relevance slider control in

the Default group. Options are Coarse, Medium, and Fine. The default value can be
set automatically according to the Physics Preference setting as described above
under the Default Group.

Element Size

Element Size allows you to specify the element size used for the entire model. This
size will be used for all edge, face, and body meshing. This option does not appear
when Size Function is on.

Initial Size Seed

Initial Size Seed allows you to control the initial seeding of the mesh size for each
part.

 Active Assembly (default) bases the initial seeding on the diagonal of the
bounding box that encloses only parts that are unsuppressed (“active” parts).
With this choice, the mesh could change as you suppress and unsuppress parts
because the bounding box grows and shrinks.
 Full Assembly bases the initial seeding on the diagonal of the bounding box
that encloses all assembly parts regardless of the number of suppressed parts.
As a result, the mesh never changes due to part suppression.
 Part bases the initial seeding on the diagonal of the bounding box that encloses
each particular individual part as it is meshed. The mesh never changes due to
part suppression. This option typically leads to a finer mesh and is recommended
for situations where the fineness of an individual part mesh is important relative
to the overall size of the part in the assembly. This option is not valid when Size
Function is on.