When do I need to use manual adaptive remeshing?

You can use manual adaptive remeshing to do the following:

  • To learn about the impact of various size function and error indicator output variables on the mesh generated by Abaqus/CAE.

  • If your analysis is expected to take a long time, you can close the Abaqus/CAE session and make the license tokens available for another user or for a new session. However, to continue the adaptive process, you must read the output database generated by the analysis and manually remesh the model.

  • If the analysis ended prematurely (for example, because of insufficient memory), you can use manual remeshing to continue the adaptivity process.