[Zeppo]

I have some questions concerning ANSYS ICEM CFD 14.0 Windows 64-bit

1) Having changed something in Blocking structure (moved vertices, for example) and selected checkbox Model -> Blocking -> Pre-Mesh in the Display Control Tree to make ICEM show pre-mesh the following message window pops up

I’d like pre-mesh to be recomputed and showed in visualisation window right after I have selected the checkbox Model -> Blocking -> Pre-Mesh without asking me if I really want it to be recomputed or not.



2) Suppose I want to blank out a lot of blocks from the screen with only few blocks left shown. I go to Model -> Blocking -> Blank Blocks and select which blocks to blank. Is there any reverse-selection-option so that I could select only those blocks which I want to be left shown with all the rest of blocks being hidden?



3) What is the option Pre-Mesh Params -> Match Edges for?

I want Edge_01 and Edge_02 to have identical node distribution parameters: the same number of nodes, the same node spacing, and the same mesh law. So changing of any node distribution parameter of one edge is bound to result in changing conformable node distribution parameter of another edge. I set Edge_01 as a Reference Edge and Edge_02 as a Target Edge, select Link spacing checkbox. Than changing number of nodes distributed along Edge_01 I see nothing happen to nodes along Edge_02, they don’t change at all. How on earth does that Edge Matching work?




4) I have a mapped block, connected to some other mapped blocks. I want to convert its type from mapped to swept. To do so I go to Edit Block -> Convert Block Type and set top face of the block to be a Swept Face. Top face seems to have disappeared after converting and no mesh is generated inside the block. Output error message is “A serious internal error has occurred. Continuing to work may be dangerous. Please save your work as soon as possible and use a previous copy of your work. If you cannot proceed without getting this message please contact technical support. The following message was designed to aid developers fix the problem: error constructing superblock 303251”.




5) I have a block with a face split into 3 parts. There’re no adjacent blocks to share this face with (with the exception of those in VORFN). I want 3 parts of the face to be merged into single part. Edit Block -> Merge Faces.

After I select the corner vertices of the 3-part face and click "apply" an error arises:"node's don't form a facemerge face failed" (the same as at the end of my question #7). I had some relevant pictures, but they were lost somehow.



6) I want to split a block face into 2 parts (Split block -> Split Face). I select specific face to split and select the edge where the split will take place.

What I get is the whole block split into 2 blocks with the split direction determined in according to the edge I have selected.