I am meshing a manifold with prostar. I want to put on a sublayer after regular hex blocks mesh is completed. Can anyone tell me how to do it. Thanks Guang

Try to understand the following script:


vc3d 0 1 20 0 1 20 0 1 20

ctab 2 flui 8
ctab 10 shell 4
ctab 11 shell 5

cset news flui
live surf create
cset news shell
cset subs gran ,,, 0.99 1.01
cdel cset
cset news shell
ctype 10
cmod cset

*get xx mxve

cset news type 10
vset news cset
vgen 2 xx vset
cgen 2 xx cset

cset invert
cset subs type 10
ctype 11
cmod cset

ctype 2
*set zz xx * -1
vcex 1 zz cset ,,, norm -0.02
cset news flui
view 1 1 1
plty ehid
cplo

Hi Joern, Thank you for advice. I fully understood the procedure (cgen a lager with dt=0 and then vcex reverse inward to keep surface shape while creating a layer with specific layer). However the version 3.15 does not support vcex with -value, which is a regression of prostar as far as I concern. Could you give any suggestion around. Thank you again Guang Ai

I've tested it with 3.15 and it worked.

other way:

use proam to generate a sublayer first (shrink the original surface). the algorithm there is much more robust than the vcex command.

my way would be to use gridpro.

Thank you Joern. I will try it in proam. It seems something wrong here in SGI/Unix setting if it is not the fault of version3.15.