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Hi, I have been trying to improve my understanding and meshing in Fluid Flow (Fluent with Fluent Meshing). I am more accustomed toe Fluid Flow (Fluid), where it utilizes the mechanical meshing instead. Ansys seems to encourage users and suggest it is better to use fluent meshing.

I am trying to see if anyone could provide a simple workflow or checks for meshing something like this before I get to volume meshing. Once i reach volume meshing it seems to blow up in size. I have yet to try BOI and was hoping to learn more about wether I need to create the BOI to the shape of the main comptutaional domain?

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Aim: no undercuts and make fillets or draft angles to get a nice release from a mold. Was I hoping to hear some ideas on the best ways to fillet or smooth this transition? Any help or resources would be great.

Wanting to practice designing over-center mechanisms and was hoping to start by asking if anyone has good sources or places to start?

• 4 bar linkage?
• Toggle Joints?
• How to test or analyze functionality in SolidWorks?
• What theory drives this design?

Thank you.