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• I 4got to add that sometimes u get better structured meshes (certianly in gmesh) if u partition the piece into 3 and 4 sided sections - slice them in ur CAD program and re-join them b4 exporting. then try these gmesh comands then i get something …

  in Structured mesh Comment by Fatmac February 2024
• within MW u can use customised comands for gmsh - paste the following into the "custom Gmesh commands" in meshing parameters and u will get a reasonable 2d mesh Mesh.Algorithm = 11; Mesh.ElementOrder = 2; Mesh.RecombinationAlgorithm = 3; Mesh.Reco…

  in Structured mesh Comment by Fatmac February 2024
• Rhino has a great function called quadremesh -for 2d meshes like this it works nicely

  in Structured mesh Comment by Fatmac February 2024
• thank you disla for looking at this - i had a little play with this and managed to get more sense out of it by swapping the contact surfaces as u suggested. I'm afraid some of the other suggestions u made were beyond my level of understanding. "Proj…

  in Sheave and rope Comment by Fatmac December 2023