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\page merging_nodes_page Merging nodes

\n This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge.

<em>To merge nodes of your mesh:</em>
<ol>
<li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and  from its
sub-menu select the <b>Merge nodes</b> item. The following dialog box
shall appear:

\image html mergenodes.png

<ul>
<li>\b Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.</li>
<li>\b Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for
merging.
<ul>
<li>\b Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given
\b Tolerance.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groupes of nodes for
merging. All nodes of each group will form one after the
operation.
<ul>
<li>\b Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.</li>
<li>\b Add button adds to the list a group of nodes selected in the
viewer with pressed "Shift" key.</li>
<li><b>Select all</b> checkbox selects all groups.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Edit selected group</b> list allows editing the selected
group:
<br><br>
\image html add.gif
<center>adds to the group the node selected in the viewer.</center>
<br>
\image html remove.gif
<center>removes from the group the selected node.</center>
<br>
\image html sort.gif
<center>moves the selected node to the first position in the
group. This means that all other nodes will be merged into this
one.</center><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>To confirm your choice click \b Apply or <b>Apply and Close</b> button.</li>
</ol>

\image html merging_nodes1.png

\image html merging_nodes2.png

<br><b>See Also</b> a sample TUI Script of a 
\ref tui_merging_nodes "Merge Nodes" operation.  

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