meshing a dome

[nipsu]

Hello everybody,

I have created a dome by revolving a series of arches, in some cases the revolving has been made with different "number of division", because of this different division a problem has arose: in some local point the mesh is not continuos, for better understanding see the attachements. One solution could be to make shorter arches (not in touch each others) revolve and than manually create contours (and than shell) which fill the gap and touch every node, but this solution is quite time consuming. Do you have any better idea?

Thanks

[Rafal.Gaweda]

File please.

[nipsu]

In which extension I shall send?

[Rafal.Gaweda]

zip it before.

if too big check this : http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Robot-Structural/Sending-bigger-files/td-p/3795062

[nipsu]

ok now should work.

ps: this is only the top of the dome, lower rings have not been modeled yet

[Rafal.Gaweda]

You have set different arc discretizations on different panels.

Set the same.

[nipsu]

Ok, but I need to have different discretization otherwise I end up to have very small sections on top of the dome, and the mesh quality gives some problem . Or do you think is not a problem to have so small section?

[Rafal.Gaweda]

This one is OK.

In this case - not planar shape - we do not have many choices.