CFX-Mesh will often ask you to select one or more 2D Regions for the location of a meshing feature. Where two Solid Bodies meet at a common face, there is just one face present in the geometry; however, there are two 2D Regions, as shown in the example below.
If your model has only one solid, then each face is also a 2D Region, and vice versa. If your model has more than one solid, then all of the external faces will also be 2D Regions. However, two 2D Regions will exist for every shared (internal) face (assuming that you have combined the solids into the same part). Each meshing feature that requires you to specify a location has its own rules about whether or not you can set different properties for the two 2D Regions which make up a shared face.
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Composite 2D Region: You may include any combination of 2D Regions in a Composite 2D Region (including just one or both sides of a shared face). However, if you are going to use a Composite Region to specify the location for any other meshing feature, then you must make sure that it only includes 2D Regions which satisfy the requirements of the appropriate feature.
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Face Spacing: It is important that you do not try to apply different Face Spacings to 2D Regions which are the two sides of a common face, since the surface mesh is generated on the common face, not on the 2D Regions separately. It is acceptable to include a 2D Region which forms one half of a shared face in a Face Spacing without including the other side of the shared face, but only if the 2D Region which forms the other side is not included in any other Face Spacing (other than the Default Face Spacing).
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Inflated Boundary: When creating an Inflated Boundary, you can have different settings for the two different 2D Regions which make up a common face, i.e., you can apply Inflation to one 2D Region and not the other, or to both but with different settings. The example below shows the difference in one particular case.
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Preview Group: A Preview Group can contain any combination of 2D Regions. It does not matter if 2D Regions are contained in more than one Preview Group, nor if a 2D Region is included which forms one half of a shared face, but the other half is not included.
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Virtual Faces: A Virtual Face cannot include any 2D Region which forms one half of a shared face.
If you try to pick a 2D Region which is half of a shared face, then the Selection Rectangles will appear. Each shared face will be represented by two rectangles which are attached to each other, one for each side or 2D Region, as shown below. You can use these rectangles to select individual 2D Regions easily and accurately.
CFX-Mesh will not allow you to select locations for meshing features which break the rules given for each feature.