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Revision as of 15:26, 2 April 2013

The following tools are contained in the Dynamic Tools portion of the tool palette when the Mesh Module is active. These are tools with corresponding right-click menus.

Tool Tool Name Right-Click Menu
File:Select node icon.bmp Select Mesh Nodes
  • Delete – Delete selected mesh Nodes.
  • Assign BC – Assign a boundary condition to selected mesh nodes.
  • Transform – Transform the selected nodes either by scaling, translation, or rotation.
  • Triangulate – Triangulate the selected nodes to form triangle elements.
File:SelectMeshNodestring.bmp Select Nodestrings
  • Delete Selected – Delete selected nodestrings.
  • Assign BC – Assign a boundary condition to selected nodestrings.
  • Reverse Direction – Reverse direction of selected nodestrings.
  • Force Breaklines – Force element edges to follow the selected nodestrings.
  • Renumber Nodes – Renumber the nodes starting with an ID of 1.
  • Renumber Nodestrings – renumber the nodestrings starting with an ID of 1.
  • Smooth – Smooth the mesh boundary along the path of a selected nodestring by moving midside nodes. Only used for quadratic elements.
File:SelectMeshElement icon.bmp Select Elements
  • Delete – Delete selected element.
  • Refine – Split all selected elements into four elements.
  • Relax – Moves all the nodes on the interior of the selected elements to the centroid of their contributing area. Iterates based on option set in the options command.
  • Assign Material Type – Assign material type to selected elements.

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