Demo 10

This object is a clevis bracket; the model is held at the INRIA model repository as a 3ds file, and is imported into Blender with Blender ’ s .3ds import script. Its title is “Aries155” (See References). We apply the mesh command Tris to Quads and then Limited Dissolve at a level of 5 degrees.

The pin sleeves have a fillet zone which is ambiguously represented in the model. We choose to avoid this feature and simplify the sleeve o.d. to meet the vertical plates at a right angle.
By preserving the points which make up the area where the body intersects the sleeves, we can attempt to guess the draftsman’s intent as to the shape of the fillets.
The ‘ear’ is hidden while the base plate is worked on. A little care on our part in selecting edges for hiding allows a double strip of faces to be left on the base plate to guide the face creation procedure.
Half of a base plate is shown.

Hole circles will be replaced with 16-division circles.
The element pattern is designed for the base plate. The selected faces show the reserved location of the still-hidden ‘ear’.
The final mesh contains 2244 elements and 3792 nodes.
The final mesh meets Verdict standards for Scaled Jacobian (right) as well as for Diagonal measure (below).

We intentionally left two ridges in the model to ease its construction. The height of these ridges amounts to 0.00003 times the overall height of the finished mesh.