Obtaining Mesh Statistics

You can dynamically obtain information about the total number of elements, the number of triangle elements, or the number of elements with bad or poor mesh quality. This capability can be useful when you modify the surface mesh by moving nodes, splitting elements, etc.

Before you begin:
  • Open the Surface Mesher.
  • Generate the mesh.
  • Switch to mesh quality visualization (from the Visualization section of the action bar, click Mesh Visualization Quality .
See Also
About Mesh Visualization
Creating and Editing Surface Meshes
Manually Editing the Mesh in the Surface and Tetrahedron Mesher
  1. From the Check section of the action bar, click Statistics .
    The Statistics dialog box appears and displays the following information:
    • Total number of elements
    • Number and proportion of triangle elements
    • Number and proportion of elements with a poor mesh quality
    • Number and proportion of elements with a bad mesh quality

    Elements with a poor or bad mesh quality are colored in yellow or red. See Mesh Color.

    Tip: You can keep the Statistics dialog box open while you edit the mesh to obtain mesh statistics dynamically.

  2. Click Close.