Product: ABAQUS/CAE
Benefits: A part that is instanced many times in the assembly needs to be meshed only once. The mesh appears on each instance of the part.
Description: You can now mesh a part in the Mesh module, as opposed to meshing a part instance from the assembly. The Object field in the context bar in the Mesh module allows you to do the following:
Display the assembly and mesh independent part instances.
Display a selected part and mesh the part. ABAQUS/CAE associates the same mesh with each dependent instance of the part in the assembly. This approach is convenient when you create a linear or radial pattern of dependent part instances. You can mesh the original part, and ABAQUS/CAE associates the mesh with each instance of the part in the pattern.
ABAQUS/CAE instances the meshed representation of a dependent part instance in the input file by writing a single set of nodal coordinates and element connectivity to define the part along with a transform to define each part instance. In contrast, ABAQUS/CAE does not take advantage of instantiation in the input file with independent part instances—sets of nodal coordinates and element connectivity are written to the input file for each independent part instance.
Mesh module: MeshInstance Mesh