Verifying element quality

You can verify the quality of the mesh in selected regions as well as the quality of selected elements,

To verify the quality of a mesh, select MeshVerify from the main menu bar. The mesh verify tool allows you to do the following:

  • Select a part, or select one or more part instances or regions; and highlight elements that do not meet specified criteria, such as aspect ratio. You can also obtain mesh statistics for each selected part, part instance, or region, such as the total number of elements, the number of highlighted elements, and the average and worst values of the selection criterion.

  • Select a part, or select one or more part instances or regions; and highlight elements that do not pass the mesh quality tests that are included with the input file processor in Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit.

  • Save sets containing the elements highlighted by the verification tests. For native meshes, you can save sets of cells, faces, or edges related to the highlighted elements.

You can also obtain quality information for individual elements. For more information, see Verifying your mesh.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Verifying your mesh
Obtaining mesh information