More mesh elements in region of part

[ickby]

Hello,

I have a part on which I make some stiffness analysis. It is rather rigid with two flex elements. I want to have a detailed mesh on the flex elements, and a coraser one in the rest of the part, as there no deformation will happen. Is there a method to achieve that? One principle way would be to specify the element count on certain edges, is this possible in FreeCAD?

Regards,
Stefan

[Jee-Bee]

You could use the Meshregion and maybe the Mesh boundary layer...
see for icons https://freecadweb.org/wiki/FEM_Module

both work only with gmsh what is a pity since it is more sensitive of generating mesh than netgen

[bernd]

Use mesh region for this and yes it only works wit GMSH.

[bernd]

attached an example with various mesh regions (all kind of shapes could be taken) ...

mesh_region.FCStd

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