My mesh is failing around a sliver face. I have tried changing the small feature suppression, but I cannot make it any larger than .003 because it ignores too many faces. Is there anything else I can do to get the mesh to ignore the sliver face? Any help would be great thanks!
Hi! I can’t open the linked project, but is cleaning up the sliver face in a CAD software a possibility? It is the most robust option, as it solves the root cause of the issue.
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My bad about the not being able to view it I will make the project public. I cannot change the CAD I have tried many times to fix the issue in CAD and it does not fix. So I am not sure what to do.
There are quite a lot of these thin faces everywhere around the chassis. The standard tool is a bottom-up meshing tool, which creates a surface mesh before expanding to a volumetric mesh. For that reason, it might not be the best option for very dirty CAD models.
Have you already tried the hex meshing tool instead?
I do not like using hex mesh because I have very thin gaps in places on my model and it often jumps over those. Also it often takes a lot longer and uses lots of core hours.
Hello @cyrus_costa,
Apologies for the long delay. We wanted to reach out, although it’s late, and provide you with some suggestions.
If you don’t want to use the hex-dominant meshing algorithm, the Small Feature Suppression setting in the standard meshing settings may help by ignoring small faces in your model. Alternatively, you can manually detect these small faces and delete them using one of the healing methodologies in CAD mode, which may also work well.
Please let us know if you encounter similar issues or have any other questions in the future. We’ll be happy to help you further.
Best wishes,
Kaan