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When using Ansa to build surface meshes, we all hope that the round holes can be processed into the form of washer meshes to facilitate adding constraints later.

But the mesh screw holes generated by the default settings don’t seem to be processed by washer.

There are several ways to do this. One is to manually add Zone Cut by geometry processing. This method is too labor intensive and is not recommended.

Use the shortcut key F11 or the button below to define the Ansa grid quality.

Surface mesh quality（Abaqus）

Volume Mesh Quality（Abaqus）

It is best to save the configuration file locally and reopen it next time to overwrite it.

ANSA has several different treatment methods for the extraction of sheet metal parts.

1. Skin method

TOPO → Mid.Surfa. → Skin , select the entire geometry and then press the middle mouse button without brain to automatically draw the middle face.

It is suitable for some sheet metal structural parts with relatively uniform thickness, without characteristics such as ribs, bosses, and pits.