Power Tools

The power tools contain useful tools to help users through the mesh generation process. The Immersive Topology Environment for Meshing, also known as ITEM. This panel contains a wizard-like environment which guides the user through the mesh generation process through a series of panels and diagnostics. The geometry tree tab contains a hierarchy of all the entities in the model. It includes assemblies, boundary conditions, groups, and geometry entities. The geometry tool allows users to create new boundary conditions/assemblies/groups, add entities to existing boundary conditions/assemblies/groups, make entities visible/invisible, and rename entities. The geometry repair and analysis tools contains diagnostics and tools for analyzing and repairing geometry, although many of these can now be found in the ITEM environment as well. The mesh quality and meshing power tools aid in mesh generation and verification. The geometry and mesh comparison tool identifies correlation between existing geometry and mesh. The defeaturing tool assists users with defeaturing geometry in a more automated fashion.

Figure 1. Power Tools Window

• Geometry Tree
• Geometry Analysis and Repair Tools
• Meshing Tools
• Mesh Quality Tools
• Immersive Topology Environment for Meshing (ITEM)
• Defeaturing Tool

To familiarize yourself with the power tools environment (excluding ITEM), we recommend that you try the power tools tutorial.

To familiarize yourself with ITEM wizard, we recommend that you try the ITEM tutorial.