New Features in Trelis 16.1
New Features in Trelis 16.0
’N’ Tets Through the Thickness Refinement
*** ABAQUS Parameters ***
*** NASTRAN Parameters ***
1. Arithmetic Operators
1. File Inclusion
1. Functions
1. Mathematical Functions
10. Relational Expressions
11. Conditional Expressions
12. White Space
13. Switch Statements
14. Conditionals and Loops
2. Assignment Operators
2. Conditionals
2. Cubit Functions
2. Variables
2D Elements
3. Loops
3. Numbers
3. Relational Operators
3.String Functions
4. Boolean Operators
4. Strings
5. Operators
5. String Operators
6. Delimiters
7. Expressions
8. Algebraic Expressions
9. String Expressions
A Sample Filter that Includes Additional User Interface
A Simple Example Filter
Abort Handling
Accessing the Dialog
Accumulated geometric error
ACIS Geometry Kernel
ACIS kernel updated to Version 2021.1.0.1
Adapt Cells at Non-manifold Nodes
Adaptive Curve Meshing
Adaptive Refinement Threshold
Adaptive Refinement Type
Adaptive Surface Meshing
Adaptive Volume Meshing
Adaptivity And Sizing Functions
Added support for Corvid Velodyne files
Adding Command Panels to the GUI
Adding Command Panels to the GUI
Adding Materials to a Block
Additional Copyright Notices
Additional Interval Constraints
Adjust Boundary
Adjust Boundary Orthogonal
Adjusting Orientation
Adjusting the Automatic Vertex Type Selection Algorithm
Advanced Arguments
Align
Align (3 Step)
Align Command
Align Mesh
Alpha Commands
Analyzing Geometry
Angle - Minimum/Maximum
ANSYS LS-DYNA keyword
ANSYS LS-DYNA supported keywords
Appendix
Apply Deformations
Apply Script
Approximate Triangular Quality Definitions:
APREPRO
APREPRO Additional Functionality
APREPRO Comments
APREPRO Functions
APREPRO Journaling
APREPRO Operators
APREPRO Predefined Variables
APREPRO Rules
APREPRO Syntax
APREPRO Units
Arc Center Angle
Arc Center Vertex
Arc End Vertices and Radius
Arc Three
ASCII format
Assembly Checks
Assigning a Name or Description to an Element Block
Assigning Attributes to Blocks
Assigning boundary conditions
Assigning Colors
Assigning Global Colors
Assigning Names and Descriptions to Nodesets and Sidesets
At Arc
At Intersection
Attach the sizing source ellipsoid(s) to the volume(s)
Attribute Behavior
Attribute Commands
Attribute Types
Auto Healing
Auto Scheme Selection General Notes
Auto-Contact Tool
Automatic creasing of U-splines
Automatic Detail Suppression
Automatic Forced Sweepability
Automatic full creasing on a Cubit mesh
Automatic full creasing with user-specified creased edges
Automatic Geometry Clean-up
Automatic Geometry Decomposition
Automatic Interval Size Specification
Automatic Journal File Creation
Automatic Mesh Deletion
Automatic Mesh Quality Assessment
Automatic minimal creasing example on a Cubit mesh
Automatic minimial creasing with user-specified creased edges
Automatic Name Creation
Automatic Name Propagation
Automatic Scheme Selection
Automatic Sideset Definition
Automatic Small Curve Removal
Automatic Small Surface Removal
Automatic Specification of Interval Size
Automatic Surface Split
Automatically Assigning Mesh Edges to a Block (Rebar)
Automatically Compositing Curves
Automating geometry and meshing tasks.
Automotive preprocessing in Coreform Cubit
Available Colors
Bad Angles
Bad geometry representation
Basic Arguments
Basic CAD to U-spline workflow
Basic Group Operations
Basic lattice workflow
Basic Sculpt
BBIA Solver < Cubit 17.1 (Cubit 15.6)
Before and after using the command
Better Fitting STL
Between
Bias Sizing Function
Bias, Dualbias
Binary format
Black screen sometimes appears in the U-spline display
Blend Surfaces
Block Repositioning
Block_Offset, Sideset_Offset, Nodeset_Offset
Blocks
Blocks of Input Base Exodus Mesh
Bodies and Volumes
Body
Body
Bottom-up element creation
Bottom-Up Geometry Creation
Boundary Condition Attributes
Boundary Condition Sets
Boundary Conditions
Boundary Layer Begin
Boundary Layer Bias
Boundary Layer End
Boundary Layer Improvements in Trelis 16.0
Boundary Layer Material
Boundary Layer Thickness
Boundary Layers
Boundary Layers on Merged Surfaces
Boundary Layers Projected into Volume
Boundary Mesh Smoothing
Bounding Box Calculations
Bounding Box Expansion Factor
Bounding Curves
Bounding Vertices or Nodes
brick1.stl
brick2.stl
bricks.diatom
Buffered Drawing
build uspline
build uspline crease group
build uspline lattice
build uspline optimized
Building a Sweepable Topology
Building lattice structures with user-defined reference cells
Building U-spline lattices
Building U-spline meshes for ANSYS LS-DYNA analyses
Building U-spline surfaces
Building U-spline volumes
By Projection
Bézier mesh with two elements
Capture
Capture Angle
Capture Side
Case Insensitive Names
Case-Insensitive Entity Names
Case-Insensitive Names
Cell Size
Center
Center
Centroid Area Pull
CFD_BC_Entity
Changing Camera Attributes Directly
Changing the Taper of Surfaces
Changing the View Transformation Button Bindings
Changing the visibility of a Sizing Source
Changing tool for generating documentation
Check for periodic geometry
Chop Command
Circle
Classes
Clean Up the Geometry
Cleaning Out Groups
Cleaning up a free mesh
Cleaning Up a Hexahedral Mesh
Cleaning Up a Tetrahedral Mesh
Cleanup model geometry (Optional)
Close To
Coefficient
Coefficient vectors
Cohesive Elements
Coincident Node Check
Collapse Angle
Collapse Curve
Collapse Geometry
Collapse Surface
Collapsing Mesh
Collapsing Mesh Manually
Collapsing Mesh Using Quality Metrics
Color Smoothing Improvement
Colors
Column Deletion
Column Groups
Column Insertion
Column Swapping
Combine Existing Curves
Combine Genesis IDs
Combine Genesis Names
Command Line Entity Specification
Command Line Help
Command Line Interface
Command Line Syntax
Command Line View Navigation: Zoom, Pan and Rotate
Command Line Workspace
Command Options
Command Panel Functionality
Command Panels
Command Panels
Command Panels for Specifying Location, Direction, Plane, and Axis
Command Syntax
Command Window
Commands
Commands Available
Comment
Comments on Algebraic Quality Measures
Comments on Algebraic Quality Measures
Comments on Algebraic Quality Measures
Common Options
Complete
Composite Curves
Composite Determination
Composite Geometry
Composite Surfaces
Condition Number
Cone Surface
Conforming the tetmesh to internal features
Constant Sizing Function
Constructing the U-spline
Contact Surfaces
Context (Right Click) Menu
Context Sensitive Help in the GUI
Continuing Meshing After a Mesh Failure
Continuity grading near creased vertices
Control By Attribute Type or Geometric Entity
Control point information
Controlling Automatic Journal File Creation
Controlling Exodus II Output Precision
Controlling Flattening of Elements
Controlling Mesh Quality
Controlling Paver Cleanup
Controlling Playback of Journal Files
Controlling The Application
Controlling the Execution of Sculpt
Controlling the gradation of the mesh size inside the volume
Controlling the Grid Search for Intersection Checking
Controlling the Paver Sizing Function
Controlling the Surface Evaluation Method for Composite Surfaces
Conversion
Conversional Meshing Schemes
Converting an Exodus II file to ASCII
Coordinate Plane
Coordinate Plane
Coordinate Plane
Copy
Copy
Copy Command
Copying a Mesh
Coreform Cubit™ Application Window
Coreform Cubit™ Reference Manual
Coreform Lattice GC
Corner Axis (Triad)
Corner Specification
Correcting Merge Problems
Corvid PyQt5 Addon Instructions
CPU Time
Creasing of extraordinary vertices
Create a Chamfer or Fillet
Create a directory for the new command panel
Create a directory to store command panels
Create Panel UI
Create subdomains for *SET_ keywords
Create the sizing source ellipsoid
Creating a Basic Tool Button
Creating a Circular Surface
Creating a Command Panel Button
Creating a free mesh
Creating a Helix
Creating a Journal File Button
Creating a lite mesh
Creating a New Toolbar
Creating a Parallelogram
Creating a Python Script Button
Creating a Rectangle
Creating A Surface From Mesh Entities
Creating a surface offset
Creating a thin offset volume
Creating an Ellipse
Creating and Merging Mesh Elements
Creating and Modifying Selections
Creating Beam Blocks
Creating boundary conditions
Creating Bricks
Creating common node connections
Creating Curves
Creating Cylinders
Creating Edge Elements
Creating Element Blocks
Creating Face and Tri Elements
Creating Frustums/Cones
Creating Hex and Tet Elements
Creating Mesh Elements
Creating Mesh-Based Geometry Models
Creating Mesh-Based Geometry on Import
Creating Mesh-Based Geometry to fit a Free Mesh
Creating Nodes
Creating Nodesets
Creating Nodesets and Sidesets
Creating Parameterized Filters
Creating Prisms
Creating Pyramids
Creating reference cells in Coreform Cubit
Creating rigid connections
Creating Sphere Blocks
Creating Spheres
Creating Spider Blocks
Creating Spring Blocks
Creating Surfaces
Creating the tolerant mesh
Creating tied contact
Creating Toruses
Creating Vertices
Creating Volumes
Creating volumes from surfaces
Creating Wedge Elements
Creating your own geometry
Credits
Cross
Crossing
CUB Files
Cubit (Mac Only)
Cubit Boundary Conditions
Cubit commands quick reference
Cubit File Method
Cubit Files
Cubit Geometry Formats
Cubit History Preferences
Cubit Initial Conditions
Cubit Layout Settings
Cubit Mesh Entity ID Spaces
Cubit Software Development Kit (SDK) for C++
Cubit Solution Options
Cubit Style Sheets
Cubit Support
Cubit Workflows
Cubit-Python Interface
CubitFailureException
CubitInterface Namespace Reference
Current Limitations
Current Limitations
Curvature
Curvature Sizing Function
Curve
Curve Meshing with Exodus II - based Field Functions
Curve Minimum | Maximum
Curve Optimization Threshold
Curve Smoothing
Custom Material Commands
Customization Options
Customizing the Application Window
Customizing The User Experience
Cylindrical Surface
Dealing with non-analytic spline entities in CAD
Debug Flag
Debug Processor
Debugging Geometry
Default Element Blocks
Default Scheme and Interval Selection
Default Scheme Selection
Defeature
Defeature at Bounding Box
Defects Fixed in Coreform Cubit 2020.2
Defects FIXED in Coreform Cubit 2021.11
Defects Fixed in Coreform Cubit 2022.4
Defining Materials and Media Types
Defining PARAMS for NASTRAN
Defining the Element Type
Defining the Geometric Model
Degenerate (Edge Collapse) Threshold
Delete
Deleting a Sizing Source sizing object
Deleting Element Blocks
Deleting free mesh elements
Deleting Groups
Deleting Mesh Elements
Deleting Nodesets and Sidesets
Deleting Partitioned Surfaces
Deleting Virtual Geometry
Details on Robinson Metrics for Quadrilaterals
Detecting Invalid Geometry
Determining an Appropriate Merge Tolerance
Determining the Cubit Version
Determining the Small Feature Size
Diagnostic Panels
Diagonal and Orthogonal Rebar Blocks
Diatom File
Digits Displayed
Dir
Direction
Directional Refinement
Disassociating a mesh from its geometry
Discussion
Displacement Combinations
Displacements/Accelerations/Velocities
Display
Display
Display
Display Preferences
Display U-spline projection error in Cubit
Display Volume Overlaps and Neighbors from Context Menu
Displaying Composite Surface Lines
Displaying Element Blocks
Displaying Entity Orientation
Displaying Nodesets and Sidesets
Displaying Using the Element Facets
Distance
Docking and Undocking the Input Window
Drag a command panel onto the toolbar
Drag and Drop
Dragging from Target Entities to Source Selection
Draw
Draw
draw uspline
draw uspline projection_error
Drawing a Location, Direction, or Axis
Drawing Columns
Drawing Lines
Drawing Locations
Drawing Locations, Lines and Polygons
Drawing Mesh Intersection
Drawing Other Objects
Drawing Polygons
Drawing, Locating, and Highlighting Entities
Drop Down Menus
Drowpdown windows show on wrong display on Mac
Duplicate Block Elements
Duplication Meshing Schemes
Echoing Commands
Echoing the ID of the Selection
Edge Length
Edge Swapping
Edit
Editing Entity Attributes from the Property Page
Element and Node ID Collision Fail
Element and Node ID Maps
Element Block Definition Examples
Element Block Specification
Element Blocks
Element Ids
Element information
Element Numbering
Element Shape
Element Shape Improvement
Element Types
Element Types
Element Types
Ending at a Face
Ending at a Face with Multiple
Ending at a Surface
Ending at a Surface
Ending at a Surface with Multiple
Ending at a Surface with Multiple
Ending at Face with Direction
Ending at Surface with Direction
Ending at Surface with Direction
Enhancements in Coreform Cubit 2022.4
Enhancements to Free Entity Selection
Enhancements to Free Entity Selection
Enhancements to Meshedit Command
Entering Commands
Entities cannot be creased using build crease group
Entity
Entity IDs
Entity Labels
Entity Measurement
Entity Names
Entity Operations
Entity parsing
Entity Selection
Entity Selection And Filtering
Entity Selections
Entity Visualization
Entity Visualization Options
Environment Commands
Environment Variables
Equal
Equation-Controlled Distribution Factors
Equipotential
Error Logging
Error Window
Estimating Merge Tolerance with Small Feature Size
Even
Examining Merged Entities
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example 1
Example 1
Example 2
Example 2
Examples
Examples
Examples
Examples
Examples
Executing ANSYS LS-DYNA
Execution Command Syntax
Exiting the Session
Exodus
Exodus Boundary Conditions and Element Types
Exodus Coordinate Frames
Exodus File
Exodus II File Specification
Exodus II Manual
Exodus II Model Title
Exodus II-based Field Function
Explanation of command parameters
Explicit Specification of Intervals
Export
Export
Export Communication Maps
Export formats
Export Refined Cartesian Grid
export uspline lattice tessellation
Exporting a lite mesh
Exporting a Parallel Mesh for pCAMAL
Exporting a STEP file from Pro/Engineer
Exporting a Toolbar
Exporting ACIS Files
Exporting an Exodus II File
Exporting ANSYS CDB files
Exporting block-partitioned BEXT U-splines
Exporting block-partitioned U-splines with node sets
Exporting Facet and STL Files
Exporting Fluent Grid Files
Exporting free meshes
Exporting Geometry
Exporting IGES Files
Exporting Mesh-Based Geometry
Exporting multiple BEXT files
Exporting Sierra Files
Exporting STEP Files
Exporting the Finite Element Model
Exporting U-splines
Exporting U-splines for use in LS-DYNA
Exporting U-splines with LS-DYNA node sets
Extended Command Line Entity Specification
Extended Parsing Syntax
Extended Selection Dialog
Extended Selection Dialog
Extended Surface
Extended Surface
Extending a Curve
Extracting a Single Hex Sheet
Extracting multiple sheets along a curve
Extrema
Extrema
Extruding Mesh Elements
Facet - Absolute/Angle
Facet File Format
Facet Tolerance
Facetted Representation
Facetted Representation
Farfield Pressure
FASTQ
FEA Model Size
Feature Angle
Feature Angle
Feature Angle
FeatureSize
Fem/New/Old Options
File
File
File Formats
File import
File Manipulation
File Name
Fillet Removal Example
Filter
Find Overlap Settings
Finding Intersecting 2D Mesh
Finding Intersecting 3D Mesh
Finding Intersecting Mesh
Finding Nearly Coincident Entities
Finding Surface Overlap
Fine Tuning the Merge Tolerance
Fire Ray
fit uspline
Fixed or Free
Fixing a Geometric Entity
Focus Follows Cursor
Focused Smoothing on Groups of Mesh Entities
fold uspline lattice ref geom
Force merge specified geometry entities
Forced Sweepability
Forces
Fraction
Free Mesh Transformation Operations
Free Mesh vs. Mesh-Based Geometry
Free Meshes
Free Meshing Schemes
Free Surface Sidesets
From Location
From Mesh Edge
From Vertex
From Vertex Onto Curve
FullHex vs. NodeHex Representation
Functions
Functions
Future: Pyside Addon Instructions
Gap - Minimum/Maximum
Gaps in ID space
General Attributes
General Constraints
General Meshing Information
General Notes
General Notes
General Plane Specification
General Preferences
Generate Periodic Mesh
Generate Sidesets
Generating a Mesh in ITEM
Generating a Tetmesh from a Skin of Triangles
Genesis Collision Fail
Geo Smooth Max Deviation
GeomEntity
Geometric Primitives
Geometry
Geometry
Geometry
Geometry Accuracy
Geometry Adaptive for TriMesh and TetMesh Schemes
Geometry Adaptive Sizing Function (Skeleton Sizing)
Geometry Analysis Tools
Geometry and Mesh Entity Visibility
Geometry Attributes
Geometry Attributes
Geometry Booleans
Geometry Cleanup and Defeaturing
Geometry Compliant Lattice Structures
Geometry Creation
Geometry Creation, Modification, and Healing
Geometry Decomposition
Geometry Decomposition
Geometry Decomposition
Geometry Defaults
Geometry Deletion
Geometry file formats
Geometry Formats
Geometry Groups
Geometry Imprinting and Merging
Geometry Operations
Geometry Orientation
Geometry Power Tools
Geometry Preview
Geometry Repair Tools
Geometry Tolerant Meshing
Geometry tools: Create tangent curve
Geometry tools: Taper surfaces
Geometry Transforms
Geometry-Aware Spider Blocks
Getting Help
Global creasing options
Global Element IDs
Global Element IDs
Global Mesh Refinement
Global Smoothing
Global Tetmesher Options
Global Trimesher Gradation Options
Grafting Options
Grafting Scope
Graphical Display Information
Graphical User Interface
Graphical User Interface
Graphical User Interface
Graphical User Interface
Graphics
Graphics
Graphics Camera
Graphics Clipping Plane
Graphics Display Capabilities
Graphics Lighting Model
Graphics Modes
Graphics Scale
Graphics Status
Graphics Window
Graphics Window Control
Graphics Window Size and Position
Graphics, Utilities, etc.
Graphics, Utilities, etc.
Group
Group Booleans
Group Copy and Transform
Group Propagation
Grouping elements in voids and enclosures
Grouping Faces on a Surface into a Sideset
Grouping Sweepable Volumes
Groups
Groups
Groups in Graphics
Groups Persist across Webcut
Guaranteed Quality Threshold
Guiding the user through the workflow.
Hardcopy Output
Hardware Requirements
Healer Settings
Healing
Healing Attributes
Help
Hex Sheet Drawing
Hexahedral Coarsening
Hexahedral Quality Definitions
Hexahedral Refinement Using Sheet Insertion
Hexset Command
High Order Elements
Highlight
Highlight Line Width
History
History and snapshots
History Preferences
History Window
Hole
Hole Removal Example
How to Use the ITEM Wizard
How to Use This Manual
HTet
HTet
HTet Material
HTet Method
HTet Transition
HTET Unstructured Option
Idless Journal Files
IIA Solver >= Cubit 17.1 (Cubit 15.6)
Immersive Topology Environment for Meshing (ITEM)
Immutable Variables
Import
Import Options
Import Options
Import Options
Import Settings
Importing 2D Exodus Files
Importing a Free Mesh Without Geometry
Importing a Lite Mesh
Importing a Mesh
Importing a Mesh Onto Existing Geometry
Importing a Mesh onto Modified Geometry
Importing a Mesh with Nodeset Associativity
Importing Abaqus Files
Importing ACIS Files
Importing ACIS files at startup
Importing an Existing Toolbar
Importing CAD files is slow on Mac
Importing CAD model geometry
Importing Cubit into Python
Importing Exodus II Files
Importing Facet Files
Importing FASTQ Files
Importing Fluent Files
Importing Geometry
Importing Granite Files
Importing I-DEAS Files
Importing IGES Files
Importing Nastran Files
Importing Patran Files
Importing STEP Files
Imprint
Imprint Settings
Imprinting Geometry
Improve
Improved Quality
Improving Mesh-Based Geometry Models for Meshing
Including generated files
Inflating a set of Tets
Information
Information About the Selection
Inheritance diagram for Body:
Inheritance diagram for CubitFailureException:
Inheritance diagram for Curve:
Inheritance diagram for Entity:
Inheritance diagram for GeomEntity:
Inheritance diagram for InvalidEntityException:
Inheritance diagram for InvalidInputException:
Inheritance diagram for Surface:
Inheritance diagram for Vertex:
Inheritance diagram for Volume:
Initial Mesh Size
Initial set of ANSYS LS-DYNA keywords that support LS-DYNA BEXT input
Initial setup
Initialization Files
Inlet Massflow
Inlet Pressure
Inlet Velocity
Input Base Exodus Mesh
Input Base mesh defined by Pamgen
Input Cartesian Exodus File
Input File
Input Microstructure File
Input Microstructure SPN File
Input Volume Fraction File
Insert void material to remove overlap
Instancing Parts with ABAQUS
Interacting with GlobalElement IDs
Intersect
Intersection Types
Interval Assignment
Interval Assignment
Interval Firmness
Interval Matching
Interval Sizing Function
Interval Solver Version
Introduction
Introduction
InvalidEntityException
InvalidInputException
Inverse Sizing Function
Isogeometric analysis
ITEM Meshing Suggestions
Journal Editor Toolbar
Journal File Creation and Playback
Journal File Editor
Key Features
Key Press Commands for the GUI
Keywords
Known Issues
Label Defaults
Laplacian
Laplacian Iterations
Large Exodus Format
Last
Last Direction Used
Last Location Used
Last Location Used in a Command
Lattice Arguments:
Lattice GC command reference
Launch the Dialog
Layout Preferences
Limitations
Limitations
Limitations
Limitations Introduced in Coreform Cubit 2020.2
Limited Support for Incrementally Adding Boundary Layers
Line Width
Linear Sizing Function
Linux or macOS Instructions
List
List
List
List Cubit Environment
List Geometry
List Interval
List Mesh
List Model Summary
List Names Example
List Special Entities
List Surface [range] Ids’ Examples
Listing and Drawing Vertex Types
Listing Information
Lite Meshes
Load Existing Filters
Loc
Local HTet Transition None
Local HTet Transition Pyramid
Local HTet Transition Tied Contact
Local Refinement of Tets, Triangles, and Edges
Location and Normal Vector
Location and Two Vectors on the Plane
Location, Direction, Plane and Axis Specification
Loft Surfaces Together
Logical Rectangle
Loop Minimum | Maximum
Loops and Journaling
Loss of Resolution due to initial faceting
macOS cannot verify the developer of Coreform Cubit-2022.4
 Magic Mesh Button
Maintaining distance between perpendicular continuity transitions
Make elements
Manual Constraints
Mapping
Match Sideset Ids
Matching Tetrahedral Meshes
Material Definition with Input Mesh
Maximum Guaranteed Quality Iterations
Maximum Number of Defeature Iterations
Maximum Optimization Iterations
Maximum Parallel Coloring Iterations
Maximum Spanning Angle on Arcs
Maxmimum Degenerate Iterations
Mean Ratio
Measure Angle
Measure Between
Measure Small
Measure Void
Memory Usage Information
Merge
Merge
Merge geometry automatically
Merge Nodes
Merge Tolerance
Merging a free mesh
Merging Geometry
Merging Nodes
Mesh Adaptivity and Sizing Functions
Mesh Cleanup
Mesh Coarsening
Mesh Column Operations
Mesh Cutting
Mesh Defaults
Mesh Deletion
Mesh export: ’mesh-only’ export for ANSYS LS-Dyna
Mesh Generation
Mesh Generation
Mesh Generation Process
Mesh Grafting
Mesh Import
Mesh Import
Mesh Import Tolerance
Mesh Intersection Group Naming
Mesh Interval Preview
Mesh model geometry
Mesh Modification
Mesh Parameters
Mesh Pillowing
Mesh Quality Assessment
Mesh Quality Command Syntax
Mesh Quality Example Output
Mesh quality on a free mesh
Mesh Quality Tool Buttons
Mesh Quality Tools
Mesh Refinement
Mesh refinement on a free mesh
Mesh Scaling for Flexible Hex Refinement
Mesh size on fixed geometry entities
Mesh Slicing Command
Mesh Smoothing
Mesh Topology Check
Mesh Validity
Mesh Visualization
Mesh Void
Mesh-Based Geometry
Mesh-Based Imprinting
Meshcut Options
Meshcutting Example
Meshcutting Scope
MeshErrorFeedback
Meshing
Meshing
Meshing Attributes
Meshing Mesh-Based Models
Meshing Multiple Materials With Sculpt
Meshing Operations
Meshing Schemes
Meshing the Geometry
Meshing the Void
Meshing Tools
Message Output Settings
Metrics for Edge Elements
Metrics for Hexahedral Elements
Metrics for Quadrilateral Elements
Metrics for Tetrahedral Elements
Metrics for Triangular Elements
Metrics for Wedge Elements
Microstructure Expansion
Microstructure Shave
Midsurface
Minimum Number of Cells in a Volume
Miscellaneous Boundary Condition Commands
Miscellaneous Graphics Options
Mixed Element Output
Model Axis
Model Axis
Model Tree
Modification to lite mesh
Modify a Sizing Source sizing function
Modify BREP topology for quality meshing (Optional)
Modifying an Existing Toolbar
Mouse Based View Navigation: Zoom, Pan and Rotate
Mouse navigation different in U-spline display window
Mouse Settings
Move
Move Command
Move Undo
Moving Bodies Relative to Other Geometric Entities
Moving Merged Entities
Moving Other Geometric Entities
Multi-line Strings
Multiple Curves in FLATQUAD Blocks
Multiple Element Blocks
Multiple Location Specification
Multiple Selected Entities
Multisweep
Naming Convention for Propagated Hex Groups
Naming Merged Entities
Navigation Marker
Navigation XML Files
Net Surface
New
New Command Panel Navigation Method
New CubitInterface functions
New Features in 16.4
New Features in 16.5
New features in Coreform Cubit 2021.11
New Features in Trelis
New Features in Trelis 16.3
New Geometry Power Tool Diagnostics and Solutions
New HDF5 file type supported
New In 16
New In Coreform Cubit
New Mass Increase Ratio metric added to Cubit
New Meshing Collapse Commands
New Node Constraint Options
New Sculpt options
No More Highlight Color Collisions
Node and Nodeset Repositioning
Node Constraints for High Order Elements
Node Numbering
Node numbering
Node or Vertex
Node Ordering
Node Redistribution
Node_Offset and Element_Offset
Nodeset and Sideset Specification
Nodeset Associativity Data
Nodeset Ordering
Nodesets
Nodesets/Sidesets
Nodesets/Sidesets/Blocks Behavior with Geometric Entity Copy
Non Exodus
Non-Manifold Topology
Non-Manifold Topology
Normal
Normal Vector and Coefficient
Normalized Inradius Metric for tet10 Elements
Notes on Mesh Slicing
Number of Adaptive Levels
Number of Element Layers in Boundary Layer
Number of Element Layers to Buffer Curves
Number of Intervals X
Number of Intervals Y
Number of Intervals Z
Number of Processors
Number of processors in I
Number of processors in J
Number of processors in K
Number of Times
Number of Times
Number of Times with Direction
Number of Times with Direction
Number of Times with Multiple
Number of Times with Multiple
Offset
Offset
Offset
Offsetting Mesh Elements
On a Curve
On a Plane
On a Surface
On Curve - Fraction
On Curve - General
On Curve Tangent
On Surface Normal
op_type Description Entity1 Entity2 Params
Open ’<filename>’
Open Asset Import Library
Opening the Merge Tolerance Panel
Optimization Threshold
Optimize Jacobian
Options Menu
Other Enhancements to Coreform Cubit 2020.2
Other Formats
Other Functionality Available in the Journal Editor
Other Merge Commands
Other Options
Outlet Pressure
Panel UI Widgets
Panning
Panning
Parabolic, Circular, Ellipse
Parallel Coloring Threshold
Parallel Meshing
Parallel Meshing Scheme
Parallel Parameters
Parallel Refinement
Parallel Tetrahedral Meshing
Parametric
Partitioned Curves
Partitioned Geometry
Partitioned Surfaces
Partitioned Volumes
Partitioning for multiple LS-DYNA parts
Partitioning with Curves
Partitioning with Faces or Triangles
Partitioning with Hard Points
Partitioning with Mesh Edges
Partitioning with Polylines
Partitioning with Vertices and Nodes
Passing Variables into a Cubit Session
Pave
Pentagon
Periodic Intervals
Periodic Mesh Axis
Periodic Nodeset Ids
Periodic Space Filling Models (Tile)
Persistent Attributes
Pick Types
Pick Widget
Picked Group
Picked Group
Pillow All Surfaces
Pillow at Domain Boundaries
Pillow Bad Quality at Curves
Pinpoint
Placement in Cubit Commands
Planar Surface
Planar Surface
Planar Surface
Plane Defined by a Non-linear curve
Plane defined by a Surface
Plane Defined by a two linear curves
Plane from 3 Points
Plane from 3 points
Plane Normal to a Curve
Plane Normal to Curve
Platforms
Point Size
Polygon, Sphere, and Box Select
Polyhedron
Porting from PyQt4 to PyQt5
Position (XYZ values)
Positive or Negative X,Y,Z Direction Vectors
Possible workflow using the GUI
Post Meshing Settings
Post-processing
Power Tools
Pre-Selection
Precedence
Precedence
Precedence of "Except" and "In"
Preliminary comments
Preparing LS-DYNA input
Preparing to Use Sculpt
Pressure and Total Force
Prevent Graphics From Updating
Preventing geometry from merging
Preview
Preview a Cylindrical Plane
Preview Script
Previewing a Direction
Previewing a Location
Previewing a Location on a Curve
Previewing a Plane
Previewing an Axis
Print Input
Program
Propagate Curve Bias
Propagated Groups
Propagated Hex Group Starting on a Face
Propagated Hex Group Starting on a Surface
Propagated Hex Groups
Property Page
Providing the user with smart options.
Python API
Python Interface
QTri
Quad Dominant
Quadrilateral Quality Definitions
Quadrilateral Surface Mesh
Quality
Quality Defaults
Quality Groups
Quality Metric Definitions:
Quality Options
Query Selection
Quiet
Radialmesh
Randomize
Rational spline mesh with four elements
Recognizing Nearly Sweepable Regions
Reconciling Duplicate Names
Recording a Session
Recording And Playback
Recording APREPRO Commands
Recording Entity IDs and Names
Recording Errors
Recording Graphics Commands
Reduce Bolts Command Panel
Reduce Command
References
References
References for Hexahedral Quality Measures
References for Quadrilateral Quality Measures
References for Tetrahedral Quality Measures
References for Triangular Quality Measures
Refine Mesh Boundary
Refinement and Coarsening Levels
Refining a Hex Sheet
Refining along a path
Refining at a Geometric Feature
Refining at a Geometric or Mesh Feature
Reflect Command
Regular Imprinting
Regularizing Geometry
Related Commands
Relative Intervals
Release Notes: Coreform Cubit 2020.2
Release Notes: Coreform Cubit 2021.11
Release Notes: Coreform Cubit 2022.4
Remeshing
Remeshing a Swept Volume Mesh
Remeshing Tetrahedra
Remove bad elements below threshold
Remove Overlap
Remove Sliver Surface
remove uspline
Removing a Curve
Removing a Surface
Removing Blunt Tangencies
Removing Fillets from Sheet Bodies
Removing Geometric Features
Removing Holes and Slots from Sheet Bodies
Removing Overconstrianed Tets
Removing Partitions
Removing Surfaces
Removing Vertices
Removing Virtual Geometry
Renumbering Element Blocks
Renumbering IDs
Renumbering Nodesets and Sidesets
Repeating Commands
Replaying a Session
Report Sideset Statistics
Report VFrac to Mesh Volume Comparison
Required file inclusion order for multiple BEXT files
Resetting the Graphics
Resetting the Session
Resolving Invalid Geometry
Resolving Misaligned Volumes with Manage Gaps/Overlaps Tool
Resolving Misaligned Volumes with Near Coincident Vertex Checks
Resolving Problems with Conformal Assemblies
Respecting Imprints
Respecting Vertices, Curves and Surfaces
Reverse
Revolve an axis about an axis
Revolving Mesh Elements
Right Click Commands for the GUI Graphics Window
Right Click Context Menu
Right-Click Context Menu Items
Right-Click Menu Functions
Rotate
Rotate Command
Rotating Merged Entities
Rotation
Rotations
Rubberband Selection Control
Running Sculpt
Running Sculpt Stand-Alone
Sample Journal Files
Sample output
Save
Save and load U-splines with Cubit file
Saving and Restoring a Cubit Session
Saving and Restoring Views
Saving considerations
Saving Graphics Views
Scale Command
Scale Mesh Coordinates by Constant
Scaled Jacobian Threshold for Curve Pillowing
Scaling and Accuracy Arguments:
Scheme Firmness
Screen Capture Programs
Script Window
Scripting
Sculpt
Sculpt
Sculpt
Sculpt Adaptive Meshing
Sculpt Application
Sculpt Boundary Conditions
Sculpt Boundary Layers
Sculpt Command Summary
Sculpt Examples
Sculpt Examples
Sculpt GUI
Sculpt Input Data Files
Sculpt Installation
Sculpt Mesh Improvement
Sculpt Mesh Quality Control
Sculpt Mesh Transformation
Sculpt Mesh Type
Sculpt Output
Sculpt Overlay Grid Specification
Sculpt Parallel Command
Sculpt Parallel Path Command
Sculpt Process Control
Sculpt Process Flow
Sculpt Smoothing
Sculpt System Requirements
Sculpt Technical Description
Section Command
Seeded Mesh Groups
Segment
Segment|Fraction|Distance
Select
Select Chamfer Chain
Select Commands
Selecting and picking a Sizing Source
Selecting Entities in the GUI
Selecting Entities with the Mouse
Selecting the entities
Selection by entity name in graphics window
Separate Void Blocks
Separating Multi-Volume Bodies
Separating Surfaces from Bodies
Session Control
Set the volume’s meshing scheme to tetmesh and mesh the volume
set uspline
Set-up Panels
Sets of Curves with the Same Intervals
Setting the Geometry Kernel
Setting the Merge Tolerance
Setting up the Finite Element Model
Setting your Working Directory
Settings
Settings
Sheet Extended from Surface
Shrink
Side Numbering
Side Set Side Ordering
Sidesets
Significant Figures
Silhouette Lines
Simple
Simplify Geometry
Single Entity Refinement
Size and Bounding Box
Size Parameters
Sizing Source Sizing Function
Skeleton Sizing Behaviors
Skeleton with Other Sizing Controls
Skew Control
Skinning
Skinning a free mesh
Skinning a Mesh
Small and Narrow Surfaces
Small Curves
Small details in the model
Small Features
Smart Laplacian
Smooth
Smooth Curves and Surfaces
Smooth Curves and Surfaces
Smooth Tolerance
Smoothing
Smoothing a free mesh
Smoothing faceted surfaces.
Smoothing Parameters
Solution Verification
Some ITEM tools found elsewhere in the GUI
Source Entity Arguments
Source surfaces must be contiguous in many-to-one swept meshes
Special options for BEXT U-spline export
Specification of Intervals Using Approximate Size
Specify an origin and a vector
Specifying a Direction
Specifying a Location
Specifying a Location on a Curve
Specifying a Plane
Specifying a Portion of the Mesh to be Imported
Specifying a Portion of the Mesh to be Imported
Specifying a set of nodes
Specifying an Axis
Specifying Colors in Commands
Specifying node offsets to prevent node ID collision
Specifying the type of entity to select
Sphere
Spline
Spline mesh with two elements
Spline Removal
Split (Automatically)
Split Across
Split Curve
Split Extend
Split Orientation
Split Periodic Surfaces
Split Skew
Split Surface
Splitting Geometry
Stair
Start ID
Start, Midpoint, or End
Starting and Exiting a Cubit Session
Starting the Session in Cubit Command Mode
Starting the Session in Python Interpretor Mode
Stitch
Stitch Surfaces Together
Stitching Sheet Bodies
Stitching single-surface bodies
STL File
STL Lattice Template File
Straight
STransition
Stretch
Stride
Structured
Style Sheets in Cubit
Submap
Substituting Selection into Other Commands
Subtract
Suggested Usage
Super Sizing Function
SUPERELEMENT_TOPOLOGY_XX Support
Support for Dark Mode
Supported boundary conditions types
Supported element types
Surface
Surface Auto Scheme Selection
Surface Intersection
Surface Isoparameter Lines
Surface Mesh Only
Surface Overlap
Surface to Surface proximity
Surface Vertex Commands
Surface Vertex Types
Surrounding
Sweep
Sweep Curve About Axis
Sweep Surface About Axis
Sweep Surface along a Direction
Sweep Surface Along Curve
Sweep Surface along Helix
Sweep Surface Along Vector
Sweep Surface Perpendicular
Sweep Surface to a Volume
Sweeping a Surface to a Plane
Sweeping of Curves
Swing
Symmetry
Tangents
Task Panels that Link to Control Panels
Task panels that link to other ITEM panels
Temperature
Terms
Test Categories
Test for merging in a specified group of geometry
Test Sizing Function
TetMesh
Tetmesh
Tetmesh and Trimesh GUI Command Panels
TetMesh Scheme Options
Tetprimitive
Tetrahedral Quality Definitions
Text Size
The Bézier extraction file format
The Contact Pair
The Contact Region
The Exodus Bézier extraction file format
The Finite Element Model
The ITEM Workflow
The Power of Customization
The Selection Filter Class
The Selection Keyword
THex
Thicken a material
Thicken Surfaces
Thicken Void
Threads Per Processor
Three Points on the Plane
Through Vertex
Tolerance
Tolerance
Tolerance Fraction
Tolerance used for periodic check
Tolerant Imprinting
Toolbars
Tools
Top and Bottom
Top and Bottom Values
Top, Gradient, Middle, Bottom
Topology
TQuad
Trademark Notice
Traditional
Traditional Meshing Schemes
Traits
Transforming Mesh Coordinates
Transition
Translate Mesh Coordinates in X
Translate Mesh Coordinates in Y
Translate Mesh Coordinates in Z
Tree View
TriAdvance
Triangle Mesh Coarsening
Triangle Vertex Types
Triangular Shell Element Numbering
TriDelaunay
TriMap
TriMesh
Trimesh
TriMesh Scheme Options
Trimming a Curve
Trimming and Extending Curves
TriPave
TriPrimitive
Troubleshooting
Turn OFF Smoothing Following Pillow Operations
Tweak Remove Topology
Tweak Volume Bend
Tweaking a Conical Surface
Tweaking a Curve Using an Offset Distance
Tweaking a Curve Using Target Surfaces, Curves, or Plane
Tweaking a Pair of Curves to a Corner
Tweaking a Surface by Moving
Tweaking a Surface Using an Offset
Tweaking a Vertex With a Chamfer
Tweaking a Vertex With a Fillet Radius
Tweaking a Vertex With a Non-Equal Chamfer
Tweaking Curves
Tweaking Doublers to Target Surfaces
Tweaking Geometry
Tweaking Surfaces
Tweaking Surfaces to Target Surfaces
Tweaking Vertices
Two Locations and Vector on the Plane
Two-dimensional Mesh
Types of Entity Range Input
U-spline creasing commands
U-spline volumes require swept input meshes
U-splines
U-splines
Underlying Cubit Commands
 Undo Button
Undo Button
Uniform hex coarsening
Unique Genesis IDs
Unique Genesis IDs
Unique Genesis IDs and Shell Options
Unique Node and Element IDs
Unite
Unmerging
Unstructured
Untangle
Updates to Coreform Cubit Learn licensing
Updating the Display
Use a Filter
Use the context menu on a command panel
Use the definition dialog
Useful hint:
User experience: Improved performance importing complex assemblies
User-Defined Colors
User-defined reference cells
UserPanel Functions
Using ’List’ for Querying Connectivity.
Using an ITEM Panel
Using CFD Boundary Conditions
Using Constraints
Using Contact Surfaces
Using Convection
Using Cubit Attributes
Using Geometry Merging to Verify Geometry
Using Heat Flux
Using Loads
Using Local Normals
Using Mesh Intersections to Partition Surfaces
Using Multiple Windows
Using Pressure
Using PyQt5 Addons
Using Restraints
Using tets as the basis of an unstructured hexahedral mesh
Using The Delete Command With Composites
Using the Delete Command With Partitions
Using the improve option on facet files.
Using the Picked Group in Commands
Using the stitch option on AVS and facet files
Using tolerance on STL files
Usplines
Usplines: Initial support in ANSYS LS-Dyna
Valid and Invalid Names
Validating Geometry
Validating the Mesh in ITEM
Value
Vector (XYZ values)
Version
Vertex
Vertex Sizing and Automatic Curve Biasing
View
View Navigation in the GUI
Viewing Curve Valence
Virtual Geometry
Void Material ID
Volume
Volume Auto Scheme Selection
Volume Copy
Volume Curve Types
Volume Fraction Calculation Method
Volume Fraction File
Volume ID
Volume Overlap
Volume Sources and Targets
Warning dialogs when fitting U-splines on MacOS
Web Cutting
Web Cutting by Sweeping a Curve(s) About an Axis
Web Cutting by Sweeping a Curve(s) Along a Trajectory
Web Cutting by Sweeping a Surface About an Axis
Web Cutting by Sweeping a Surface Along a Trajectory
Web Cutting by Sweeping Curves or Surfaces
Web Cutting Options
Web Cutting using a Tool or Sheet Body
Web Cutting with a Planar or Cylindrical Surface
Web Cutting with an Arbitrary Surface
Wedge Quality Definitions:
Weld Profile
What if Healing is Unsuccessful?
Whisker Weave
Whisker Weaving Basic Commands
Whisker Weaving Options
Why doesn’t the list include small gaps between volumes?
Windows File Association
Windows Instructions
Winslow
With Entity Selected
Without Entity Selected
Workflow Customization
Workflows and Toolbars
Working Directory
Write Mesh Based Geometry
Write S2G Geometry File
Write the ghost layers for debug
Writing Custom Python Filters
Xmax Bounding Box Range
Xmin Bounding Box Range
XYZ location
XYZ ordering of cells in SPN File
Ymax Bounding Box Range
Ymin Bounding Box Range
Zmax Bounding Box Range
Zmin Bounding Box Range
Zooming
Zooming
{Close_To|At} Location
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