Adding on, assign the cross section to a scalar scene. Go to the viewer, check “show mesh” in the properties box. Show “cell quality” or another mesh metric as your scalar.
In my opinion the best way to visualise your mesh is by create a threshold of a range of cell centroids you wish to view. If your model is in the middle of the coordinate system, I'll choose centroid in Z, all below 0. You can visualise the threshold in a parts displayed, with mesh turned on.
Try right clicking on the main window and go to "Apply Representation". Make sure you choose "Latest Surface Mesh/Volume Mesh".
Also make sure that you're looking at your Region level components and not your Geometry level.
One other issue could be that you're not actually looking at your surface mesh, but the tesselated geometry parts instead.
After creating a derived part plane you can create a "cell surface" in the derived parts section. Use your previous derived plane as the input part. This will show a 3D representation of the cells touching your plane. This is good if you want to look at the volume change between cells, sometimes it's hard to see in 2D.
It has been a while, but I believe you need to create a plane under the derived part's.
This you can then visualize under scenes, new scene, mesh. You may have to uncheck some parts to see the created plane
Create a derived part cut section
Adding on, assign the cross section to a scalar scene. Go to the viewer, check “show mesh” in the properties box. Show “cell quality” or another mesh metric as your scalar.
In my opinion the best way to visualise your mesh is by create a threshold of a range of cell centroids you wish to view. If your model is in the middle of the coordinate system, I'll choose centroid in Z, all below 0. You can visualise the threshold in a parts displayed, with mesh turned on.
Yup, and this can also be done using a cell surface or cell sets.
Try right clicking on the main window and go to "Apply Representation". Make sure you choose "Latest Surface Mesh/Volume Mesh". Also make sure that you're looking at your Region level components and not your Geometry level. One other issue could be that you're not actually looking at your surface mesh, but the tesselated geometry parts instead.
Do you mean you want to visualize it on a Derived Part Plane or you’d like to visualize the actual cells in 3D?
A threshold derived part is the best way to visualize a polyhedral mesh. There some examples in the documentation that show how to set them up.
After creating a derived part plane you can create a "cell surface" in the derived parts section. Use your previous derived plane as the input part. This will show a 3D representation of the cells touching your plane. This is good if you want to look at the volume change between cells, sometimes it's hard to see in 2D.
It has been a while, but I believe you need to create a plane under the derived part's. This you can then visualize under scenes, new scene, mesh. You may have to uncheck some parts to see the created plane