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Bias Fector

Sizing on Face or Body

Contact Sizing Control
Contact Sizing creates elements of relatively the same size on bodies from the faces of a face to face or
face to edge contact region. This control generates spheres of influence internally with automatic
determination of radius and size (if Relevance is selected for Type). You may want to apply a method
control on sweepable bodies to force the elements to be tetrahedron in the case where the sweeper is
not providing enough local sizing near your contact region. Your swept mesh may be quite dense if the
contact size is small on the source and target faces of the body. You may also see very little effect on
swept bodies in the case where a contact size is applied to a very small region of a large source face. You
can apply contact sizing using either of the following procedures:

w Choose Contact Sizing from the Mesh Control drop-down menu, or from the context menu
through a RMB click on a Mesh object (Insert> Contact Sizing). Select a specific contact region under
Scope in the Details View, then under Type, choose Relevance for a relative size (and enter a value
or use the slider), or Element Size (and enter a value) for an absolute size.

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