Batch Mesher#

Description#

3D solid meshes are currently made using the Zebulon batch mesher either from a command input file (see the Mesher chapter in the User Commands book) or from within Zmaster as described in this section. The options for each mesher object differ, but the creation process is the same. The meshers are run in the sequence they are listed in the top list box of the Mesher Create dialog, and can be edited or deleted there. If re-arrangement/modification is desired, sometimes it is more convenient to exit Zmaster, edit the problem.mast file, and restart Zmaster.

../../_images/BatchMesher.svg

Example#

The following is an example of the dialogs created for the previous example of domain A0 being extended in the z direction.

../../_images/create_mesher.svg

The lines added to the problem.mast represent very closely the data input fields in the dialog, so no one should have any trouble immediately interpreting or modifying this file directly:

***mesher
  **extension
    *elset A0
    *prog 1
    *distance 1
    *num 1
    *dir (0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 )
***plotting
****return