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7. Mesh size.
The last step before meshing is to tell ANSYS what size the elements
should be. There are a variety of ways to do this, but we will just deal with
one method for now. In the Preprocessor menu, select:
Meshing > Size Cntrls > ManualSize > Lines > All Lines
In the size NDIV field, enter the desired number of divisions per line.
For this example, we want only one division per line; therefore, enter 1
and then click OK. Note that we have not yet meshed the geometry, we
have simply defined the element sizes.
