Metrics Available for Blocking Mesh Only

The Angle metric checks the maximum internal angle deviation from 90 degrees, for each element. If the elements are distorted such that internal angles are small, the accuracy of the solution will decrease. You should check your solver specifications to obtain the limit for the internal angle threshold.

The Volume metric computes the volume of each element based on the corner points. The default range is 0-20. If the computed maximum is above 20, then the computed range will be scaled to fit this 0-20 range.

The Warpage metric computes the distortion of a quadrilateral face relative to a plane, based upon the corner nodes of that face. The default range is 0-90, where a warpage value of 0 is planar (preferred) while 90 is degenerate. The warpage for a hexahedral element is the largest of the values for the six individual faces.