Map meshing allows to create brick mesh in any irregular volume or

qudrilateral mesh in any irregular area.

A special mesher needs to be activated before creating mesh by
command
Mshkey,1.
Lesize controls should be given to all lines of areas with the rule
Total number of lesize divisions of opposite sides should be same.
Lccat and accat commands should be used to treat the area as
regular area (area with 4 lines) or volume as regular volume. ( volume
with 6 areas.
We can create mapped area mesh or mapped volume mesh.
Map mesh is supposed to give best results as we have total control
on element shapes. Because of requirement of lesize controls on
each line the process can be very time consuming. But if brick
meshing is the requirement then there is no alternative.

We will use this area to understand mapped area

mesh.

fini
/clear
/filnam,map_mesh
/prep7
/title,map meshing
rectang,0,100,0,100
wpoff,,100,
pcircle,30,,360
asba,1,all
numcmp,all
et,1,shell93
r,1,5
esize,7
amesh,all
c***
aclear,all

c***start map mesh

lesize,1,,,7
lesize,5,,,7
lesize,3,,,3
lesize,4,,,7
lesize,2,,,10
lccat,3,4
c***
amesh,all
c***
aclear,all
c***
mshkey,1
type,1
amesh,all

Create area and do free mesh.

fini
/clear
/filnam,map_mesh
/prep7
/title,map meshing
rectang,0,100,0,100
wpoff,,100,
pcircle,30,,360
asba,1,all
numcmp,all
et,1,shell93
r,1,5
esize,7
amesh,all
c***

Observe that free meshing can not create all

QUADS.
Observe triangular element.

C***clear area and use lesize div

controls c***with rule opposite lines
Total should be c***same.

Aclear,all
c***start map mesh
lesize,1,,,7
lesize,5,,,7
lesize,3,,,3
lesize,4,,,7
lesize,2,,,10
lccat,3,4
c***
amesh,all
c***

Decide the lines you want to treat as

opposite.We will consider lines 3 and 4
opposite to 2. Accordingly we will apply
lesize div controls.

Observe total divisions of opposite

lines are same.

Conconate the lines 3 and 4 to treat them

as single line. Now the area has only 4 lines
and it is treated as regular area.

Observe the line number6 listed without any line

properties other than total length. This is concotanated
Line.

Lccat command is used to create concotanated lines. This command is

used the mesher to treat these lines as single line. The lines should be
connected for concotnation.
Syntax:Lccat,l1,l2
Only two lines can be concotanated by explicit numbers.
For more than two lines select the lines and then use lccat,all.
Lesize controls should be given before lccat.
To nullify effect of concotanation delete concotanated line by using
ldele,line no.
In our case ldele,6 will nullify effect of concotanation.
For changing lesize controls first concotanated lines should be deleted.

Because of lesize controls it is possible to

create all quad area elements. But this is
not mapped mesh.

Observe the map mesh. Notice

difference between previous slide and
this slide.

Mapped Volume mesh:

Similar to lccat we have accat,a1,a2
Command to concotanate two areas to treat them as single area to
make the volume regular.
If more than two areas are required to be concotanated then select all
the areas and use accat,all.
Lines of concotanated areas are automatically concotanated if only two
areas are concotanated. User should concotanate respective lines of
the concotanated areas if more than two numbers of areas are
concotanated.
Bullean operations can not be done on geometries with concotanated
lines or areas.
Delete concotanated area by adele,area no, to nullify effect of
concotanation.

As this volume is irregular we can not

create brick mesh. We will use this
volume to understand map volume mesh.

Create the object by extruding the area.

Delete the concotanated line to be able
to drag.

aclear,all
ldele,6 !!!delete concotanated line
vext,1,,,,,100

Observe that as we had provided lesize control to area

before extruding new corresponding opposite area also
had lesize controls. But line numbers 11 to 15 do not have
lesize controls.

It is necessary that all the lines should have lesize controls and they
should be given before line or area concotanation.
Use lesize controls and then concotanate areas 6 and 7.

lesize,11,,,10
lesize,12,,,10
lesize,13,,,10
lesize,14,,,10
lesize,15,,,10
accat,6,7

Apply lesize controls.

Concotanate the areas 6 and 7 to create regular

volume.

Observe area number 8 created on top

of area number 6 and 7 for meshing
purpose only.

See area number 8 created as conconated

area.

Observe line nos 16 and 17 created as

concotanated lines automatically because of
concotanation of areas.

Observe concotanated lines 16 and 17.

Observe the brick mapped mesh

Redo the same problem by cutting one face by 5 deg.

Only way to brick mesh is mapped mesh for such volume.

Cut the volume as shown. Delete the unrequired left

volume. Create mesh on right volume.

c***cut the volume

vclear,all
adele,8
ldele,16,17
local,11,0,,,,,5
lgen,2,1,,,,120
a,1,2,12,11
vsba,all,8