Moldex3D-Mesh
Moldex3D-Mesh is an advanced mesh generator for fast preparation of complex geometries for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), and it also provides powerful CAD capabilities as well as diverse data file exchange. Therefore, it’s very capable of importing models from various CAD for clear up, modification, reconstruction, midplane extraction, etc.
Moldex3D-Mesh supports various mesh types, including 2D triangular and quadrilateral, 3D tetrahedral, prismatic, hexagonal, voxel (brick) and pyramid meshes. Several mainstream meshing methods are available in Moldex3D-Mesh: pure triangle surface meshing, quadrilateral dominate surface meshing, pure tetra generation, boundary layer meshing, pure voxel meshing, hybrid meshing method and midplane mesh extraction. You can choose among them to creat the mesh model depending on your specific simulation needs.
High Resolution 3D Mesh: BLM
Among the automatic and semi-automatic mesh generators that are available in Moldex3D-Mesh, the Boundary Layer Mesh (BLM) generator is the most powerful one for complex geometries. The BLM generator allows users to firstly generate inward one or two layers of prismatic meshes out of the triangular surface mesh of the object, followed by filling up the internal space with quality-controlled tetrahedral mesh. With this unique BLM, FEA solvers can capture the variable distribution, such as temperature, more accurately with much less number of elements than the isotropic tetrahedral mesh. Moreover, the BLM model also benefits the FEA solvers by much more quality mesh than the multilayer anisotropic tetrahedral ones.
Midplane Mesh Extraction: TSV-Midplaner
As an add-on of Moldex3D-Mesh, TSV-Midplaner is developed specifically for Moldex3D shell users to solve their chronic challenges to complicated and tedious shell mesh preparation tasks. The automatic midplane mesh generator, fully integrated with Technostar, enables extracting high-quality midplane mesh fro accurate simulations and modifying common meshing problems, such as missing faces, poor joining of faces or inaccurate thickness results. With its interoperable and easy-to-use interface, the seamless workflow from design to meshing will significantly improve productivity and efficiency for shell part design, verification and optimization.
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Although Moldex3D-Mesh is designed to suit various application fields, it is highly customized in preparing injection molding shell/solid mesh models for the Moldex3D simulation software. Starting from the NRUBS geometry of your product, you can quickly mesh it using various tools provided by Moldex3D-Mesh, assign injection molding attributes, and then export a mesh model file for Moldex3D simulation.
Benefits
Moldex3D-Mesh is built in Rhino4, therefore, it inherits all Rhino’s powerful CAD operation capabilities that can help users do preprocessing task very flexibly and easily.
The development of Moldex3D-Mesh focused on the needs of the user and based on the simplicity and effectiveness fundamental.
Functionalities for pure triangle surface meshing and quadrilateral dominate surface meshing methods are offered.
Functionalities for auto tetra generation, boundary layer meshing, hybrid meshing and voxel meshing are offered.
Functionalities for mesh topology checking tools, quality control tools and mesh editing tools are offered.
Because Moldex3D-Mesh supports many CAD geometry and CAE finite element model files, it could be as a file translator and bridges the gap between CAD and CAE.
Moldex3D-Mesh adds value by directly integrated with Moldex3D products. The seamless integration offers complete attribute settings for injection molding simulation. Reduces time and cost associated with numerical analysis through the direct use of CAD geometry in the simplest computer environment.
Features
Geometry interface: IGES, STEP, ACIS, PARASOLID, CATIA, Pro/Engineer, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, STL and others.
Versatile mesh density control.
Structured and unstructured shell mesh generation
Reconstruction of existing unstructured shell or solid mesh
Automatic tetrahedral generation
Alternative tetrahedral meshing algorithms
Automatic pyramid elements creation
Automatic boundary layer mesh generation
Automatic surface mesh refinement according to geometry characteristic
Semiautomatic hexahedral & prism elements generation tools
Support hybrid meshing method
Support pure voxel meshing method
Function for solid mesh generation from lines
Shell/Solid element topology checking function
Support local refinement meshing approach
Function to remove the tiny feature surface mesh
Graphic element quality check
Automatic shell/solid elements quality improvement
Automatic fix poor quality shell/solid elements
Automatic thickness definition for shell mesh
Automatic repair broken surface mesh topology
Support merge nodes functions for shell and solid mesh
Attribute setting for injection molding simulation
Support the function to load the boundary condition for CAE analysis
Support the function to set the attribution for plastic injection molding parts
Support the functions to set the attribution for IC Packaging modeling.
The mesh input/output formats that are supported by Moldex3D-Mesh R9.0 are as follows.
Supported
Mesh I/O Format
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