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Step 4: Determining if Volumes Are Suitable for Partitioning

The finite element meshing wizards provide a simple graphical way to determine whether volumes are suitable for meshing. For suitable volumes, there are options to select a meshing scheme from a number of available ones. If a volume is initially unsuitable for partitioning, it is marked and highlighted in color. Let's try to determine whether the volume in question is suitable for partitioning.

Fig. 13 - Power Tools for checking the suitability of volumes for mesh construction.

The Scheme Set/No Scheme Set list below, and also the command line window, warns that a mesh construction scheme must be specified for Volume 1, since it cannot be automatically split.

The image in the graphic window takes the form shown in Fig. 14, where volume 1 is highlighted in red. When using the described power tools, all volumes to be split are highlighted in green and those not suitable for splitting are highlighted in red.

Fig. 14 - Geometric model, volumes unsuitable for partitioning are highlighted in red.