17.  Mesh the area.

One nice feature of the ANSYS program is that you can automatically mesh the model without specifying any mesh size controls. This is using what is called a default mesh. If you’re not sure how to determine the mesh density, let ANSYS try it first! Meshing this model with a default mesh however, generates more elements than are allowed in the ANSYS/ED program. Instead we’ll specify a global element size to control overall mesh density.

1. Main Menu:  Preprocessor
        Mesh Tool
2. Set Global Size control  -»
3. Type in 0.5  -»
4. OK  -»
5. Choose Area Meshing  -»
6. Click on Mesh  -»
7. Pick All for the area to be meshed (in picking menu)
8. Close the Mesh Tool  -»

Note: The mesh you see on your screen may vary slightly from the mesh shown here. As a result of this, you may see slightly different results during postprocessing. For a discussion of results accuracy, see Chapter 2 of the ANSYS Modeling and Meshing Guide