Adding, Editing, and Building Meshing Operations and Attributes
If you select User-controlled mesh as the sequence type in the The Mesh Node, add individual Meshing Operations and Attributes to manually set up a meshing sequence. This section describes how to add operations and attributes in the meshing sequence, how to edit them, and how to build them.
Adding Mesh operations and Attributes
Right-click a Mesh node ( or ) in the Model Builder and then select an operation or attribute from The Model Builder Context Menu. Attributes can be added as local attributes by right-clicking on an operation in the Model Builder. It is also possible to add operations and attributes from The Mesh Toolbar or from The Graphics Context Menu. Enter the properties of the operation or attribute as described below.
Editing Mesh Operations and Attributes
To edit a mesh operation or attribute, select it in the tree, and make changes in the Settings window that appears. In numerical fields you can enter expressions that contain global parameters. The icons of operations and attributes that you have edited display with an asterisk (*) at the upper-right corner of the icon () in the Model Builder. The following operations are marked with a yellow triangle at the lower-right corner of the icon to indicate that they need to be rebuilt. To see the result of your edits in the Graphics window, use the methods described below to either Build Selected or Build All nodes.
Building Selected Mesh Operations
To build all operations (if needed) from the first up to the selected one:
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In a Settings window, click the Build Selected button ().
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Right-click an operation under the Mesh node and select Build Selected ().
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Select the operation in the Model Builder and press F7.
Building All Mesh Operations
To build all operations in the meshing sequence, including Finalizing the Mesh (if needed):
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In a Settings window, click the Build Mesh button ().
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Right-click the main Mesh node () and select Build All.
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Select the Mesh node in the Model Builder and press F8.
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In the Home or Mesh toolbars, click Build Mesh ().
Using Meshing Sequences: Application Library path COMSOL_Multiphysics/Meshing_Tutorials/meshing_sequence
See The Mesh Node for more information about sequence types, adding more meshing sequences, and the mesh sequence settings.