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Merging Elements


This functionality allows to merge coincident elements of a mesh selectable in the dialog box.

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Merge elements button
  1. Choose in the main menu Modification -> Transformation -> Merge elements item. The following dialog box shall appear:

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    • Name is the name of the mesh whose elements will be merged.
    • Automatic or Manual Mode allows choosing how the elements are processed.

  2. Automatic mode:

    • In the Automatic Mode the elements created on the same nodes will be merged.

  3. If the Manual Mode is selected, additional controls are available:

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    • Detect button generates the list of coincident elements for the given Tolerance.
    • Coincident elements is a list of groups of elements for merging. All elements of each group will form one after the operation.
      • Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.
      • Add button adds to the list a group of elements selected in the viewer with pressed "Shift" key.
      • Select all checkbox selects all groups.
    • Edit selected group list allows editing the selected group:

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      adds to the group the element selected in the viewer.

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      removes from the group the selected element.

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      moves the selected element to the first position in the group. This means that all other elements will be merged into this one.

    • To confirm your choice click Apply or Apply and Close button.

In this picture you see a triangle which coincides with one of the elements of the mesh. After we apply Merge Elements functionality, the triangle will be completely merged with the mesh.

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See Also a sample TUI Script of a Merge Elements operation.

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