Request for VolumeMesher improvement: add SizeOnFace[] parameter
Right now, it is possible to mesh a Brep specifying the "SizesOnCurve" that you want to use for each of the edges of the Brep. I would like to be able to define also the size to use for meshing the faces.
Let's see an example of why this is needed.:
1. In the following fugure, you can see the Brep I am trying to mesh. It is a manifold with several pipes:

2. The wall thickness of the manifold is much bigger than the pipes wall thickness, what makes necessary to mesh the manifold with one element size and the pipes with a smaller one (well you could mesh the whole model with the smaller size but it is suboptimal). In the following figure you can see how Ansys meshes this model using an element size of 50mm for the manifold and 10mm for the pipes:

3. The next figure shows the mesh produced with Eyeshot Volumesher, applying the same element sizes: 10mm for all pipe edges and 50 mm for all manifold edges except the ones that are shared with the pipes:

4. As you can see, there are big parts of the manifold that are meshed with 10 mm element size, just because it is not possible to define the meshing size for the faces. In the following figure you can see that the edges marked in red causes all the triangles in the blue zone to be generated with 10mm element size.

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