Licensing

This section gives you information about the licensing in the Advanced Meshing Tools workbench.

What are the available products in the Generative Structural Analysis Workbench?
Which functionality belongs to which product?
Which contextual menu belongs to which product?


What are the available products in the Advanced Meshing Tools workbench?

The Advanced Meshing Tools workbench includes the following products:

FMS: FEM Surface (P2)
This product lets you generate a finite element model for complex 1D and 2D parts.

FMD: FEM Solid (P2)
This product lets you generate a finite element model for complex 3D parts.

 


Which functionality belongs to which product?

The following table shows you in which product you will access the analysis functionalities:

Meshing Methods

FMS

FMD

Beam Mesher

 

Octree Triangle Mesher

*

Surface Mesher

 

Advanced Surface Mesher

 

Tetrahedron Filler

 

Octree Tetrahedron Mesher

*

Sweep 3D

 

* the number of functionalities in this command is limited.

Surface Mesher Workshop

FMS

FMD

Boundary Simplifications

 

Add/Remove Constraints on Edge

 

Add/Remove Constraints on Vertex

 

Project External Curves

 

Project External Points

 

Element Distribution

 

Elements Capture

 

Elements Distribution around Hole

 

Distribution Propagation

 

Frontal Quadrangle Method

 

Frontal Triangle Method

 

Mapped Method

 

Mapped Free Method

 

Minimal Method

 

Mapped Method for Triangular Domain

 

Bead Method

 

Half Bead Method

 

Global Meshing Parameters

 

Context Options

 

Mesh the Part

 

Remove Mesh

 

Remove Mesh by Domain

 

Lock Domain

 

Edit Mesh

 

Split Quadrangles

 

Exit

 

Advanced Surface Mesher Workshop

FMS

FMD

Boundary Simplifications

 

Add/Remove Constraints

 

Imposed Element

 

Domain Specifications

 

Global Meshing Parameters

 

Geometry Simplification

 

Remove Simplification

 

Mesh the Part

 

Remove Mesh

 

Clean Holes

 

Edit Simplification

 

Imposed Elements

 

Remesh Domain

 

Remove Mesh by Domain

 

Lock Domain

 

Edit Mesh

 

Split Quadrangles

 

Exit

 

Import/Export

FMS

FMD

Import Mesh

Export Mesh

Welding Meshing Methods

FMS

FMD

Spot Welding Connection Mesh

*

Seam Welding Connection Mesh

*

Surface Welding Connection Mesh

*

Nodes to Nodes Connection Mesh

 

Node Interface Mesh

 

* only available if you have previously installed the Generative Assembly Structural Analysis (GAS) product.

Quality

FMS

FMD

Free Edges

Intersections / Interferences

Duplicate Elements

Duplicate Nodes

Quality Analysis

Connection Summary

*

Mesh Part Statistics

**

 

Standard Visualization

Quality Visualization

Orientation Visualization

Visualization by Mesh Parts

*

*

Visualization by Groups

*

*

Cutting Plane

Element Orientation

Element Shrink

* not available neither in the Surface Mesher workshop and nor in the Advanced Surface Mesher workshop.

** only available in the Surface Mesher workshop and in the Advanced Surface Mesher workshop.

Mesh Transformations

FMS

FMD

Translation Mesher

*

**

Rotation Mesher

*

**

Symmetry Mesher

*

**

Extrude Mesher with Translation

Extrude Mesher with Rotation

Extrude Mesher with Symmetry

Extrude along Spine

Coating 1D Mesh

 

Coating 2D Mesh

 

* only available with 1D and 2D elements.

** only available with 3D elements.

Mesh Operators

FMS

FMD

Mesh Offset

 

Split Quads

 

Move Mesh Nodes

 

Which contextual menu belongs to which product?

The following table shows you in which products you will access the contextual menus.
Note that you can click contextual menus in the table to see the corresponding documentation.

Contextual Menu

FMS

FMD