Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can automatically smooth the positions of external mesh nodes. You can smooth the nodes of a meshed face and use the smoothed mesh to create a bottom-up or swept mesh. Smoothing provides an automated method for improving the mesh on a face without changing the connectivity between the mesh and the underlying geometry.
Description: The Smooth method in the Edit Mesh toolset is available for use with external nodes on native meshed parts or assemblies and within planar orphan mesh faces. Abaqus/CAE adjusts the positions of selected nodes by applying a Laplacian smoothing algorithm. The smoothing process generally tries to equalize the distance between adjoining nodes, and it provides an automated alternative to editing or dragging individual nodes to improve a mesh. Smoothing does not change the positions of boundary nodes. Figure 11–2 shows a meshed face before smoothing on the left and after smoothing on the right.
Mesh module:
Mesh
Edit: Node category: Smooth