Grid Generation

Creating a grid is a straightforward process. The important principle is that for each grid, four splines are needed that intersect in four places. Follow these steps to create a simple grid:

1. From the Splines menu, select Draw a New Spline or click on the Add a new spline button from the main toolbar (Figure 2).
2. LMC to start drawing a spline, and RMC to end drawing the spline. Draw a second spline close to parallel to the first spline.
3. Next, draw two more splines along each end of the domain. These two splines must intersect the previous two splines (Figure 1)
4. RMC on the Splines layer in the Layer Control panel, then select the Create Grid option or click on the Create Grid from Splines button from the main toolbar, as shown in Figure 3
5. Create Grid from Splines form will pop up as shown in Figure 4. From this form, the number of grid cells needs to be defined by entering a number of cells in the I and J directions (default values are 4). Figure 5 shows an example of the grid generated.

Figure 1 Draw splines procedure.

Figure 2 Create Splines.

Figure 3 Create Grid from Splines.

Figure 4 Define the number of grid cells.

Figure 5 An example of the generated grid.