Swept hex mesh for helical wire-wrapped pin bundles

Coreform Cubit
#1

Cubit:2023.4
Windows 11 Pro

Hi all,

I am attempting to sweep a hex mesh through a pin bundle geometry with helical wires surrounding the pins. The source and connecting surface meshes are successful but the target surface mesh has severely misformed elements that seem to connect vertices that are far away from the proper vertices. I can post a picture, but does anyone have any preliminary ideas? Would tolerances play a role here?

Thanks,
David H.

#2

I found one solution, and that is to mesh the target surface before using the Extrude option under the Sweep method menu.