Generating a Tetrahedral Mesh
As a final step generate the default tetrahedral mesh for the wheel rim.
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In the Model Builder window, under Component 1 click Mesh 1.
Remaining narrow face regions are detected by the Geometry Cleanup.
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In the Geometry Cleanup dialog that opens, click Clean up Automatically to automatically clean up the geometry.
The remaining narrow face regions are collapsed by the Remove Details 1 node added by the cleanup.
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In the Model Builder, click Mesh 1 and change the Element size to Extra coarse.
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Click Build Mesh
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The generated mesh consists of approximately 152,000 elements and there should be no Information nodes appearing under the Mesh 1 node due to small geometric entities.