Ansys Meshing – Section Plane

A section plane cuts through the generated mesh so you can see its interior. It is the only practical way to check what happened inside a volume, since the outer surface tells you nothing about the cells beneath it.

What you are looking for is specific: whether the inflation layers grew to the number you asked for, whether the transition from fine to coarse cells is gradual, and whether any region is either starved of cells or far denser than it needs to be.

Combining it with the mesh quality metrics makes the check quicker. The statistics tell you the worst skewness or orthogonal quality in the model, and the section plane tells you where those cells actually are.