Thanks! I’m now quite happy with the level of control I have over the meshing.
One additional thing I’m wondering about: would it make sense to use the Thicken Shell Mesh option for this model? So far, I’ve been modeling each layer in the foil stack as a separate spiral shell. I then apply the appropriate thicknesses via material sections and manually define contact pairs to reconnect the layers using tie constraints, but this feels a bit cumbersome.
However, it seems that using a single spiral shell and leveraging Thicken Shell Mesh to define multiple layers could get me quite close to the behavior I’m aiming for. The problem is: I’m unsure how to assign different material sections or layer thicknesses to the individual layers when using this approach. I found a thread on the forum that seems to ask a similar question: Thicken Shell Mesh, retain layer information, but I am having some trouble with understanding the answer given by @synt.
Can/should Thicken Shell Mesh be used in this context? Or would a different method be more suitable?