7.  Mesh the model.

1. Utility Menu:  Plot
        Areas

Specify a SmartSize of 5.  This will allow a slightly finer mesh than the default and yet the resulting number of elements will be within the ANSYS/ED program limits for the maximum number of elements.

2. Main Menu:  Preprocessor
        MeshTool
3. Turn on SmartSizing  -»
4. Slide the size control bar to 5  -»
5. Click on Mesh  -»

Mesh the mold area first.  Note that the material attribute reference number defaults to 1 and there is no need to set attributes before meshing the area.

6. Pick the mold area A5 (Hint:  Place the mouse cursor on top of the A5 label when you pick -- this is the picking "hot spot," based on the centroid of the area.)

7. OK (in the picking menu)

Before meshing the casting area, set the material attribute to that of steel (material 2).

8. Choose Global, Set for Element Attributes  -»
9. Set Material number to 2  -»
10. OK  -»
11. Utility Menu:  Plot
         Areas
12. Click on Mesh  -»
13. Pick area 4

14. OK (in picking menu)
15. Close the MeshTool  -»
16. Utility Menu:  Plot
         Elements

Note:  The mesh you obtain 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.

To verify that the elements have the right materials, plot them with different colors for different materials.

17. Utility Menu:  PlotCtrls
         Numbering
18. Change to Element numbering by Material numbers  -»
19. OK  -»

Note:  the elements of material 1 form the sand mold.  The elements of material 2 form the steel casting.  You can also plot the elements showing materials in different colors without displaying the associated material numbers.

20. Utility Menu:  PlotCtrls
         Numbering
21. Change to Numbering shown with colors only  -»
22. OK  -»

23. Toolbar:  SAVE_DB