This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident
nodes with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge. This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident
nodes with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge.
To merge nodes of your mesh:
1. From the Modification choose Transformation and from its sub-menu select the Merge nodes item. The following dialog box shall appear:
Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.
Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for merging.
Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given Tolerance.
Coincident nodes is a list of groupes of nodes for merging. All nodes 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 nodes selected in the viewer with pressed "Shift" key.
Select all checkbox selects all groups.
Edit selected group list allows editing the selected group:
adds
to the group the node selected in the viewer.
removes
from the group the selected node.
moves
the selected node to the first position in the group. This means that
all other nodes will be merged into this one.
To confirm your choice click OK or Apply button.
See Also a sample TUI Script of a Merge Nodes operation.