Associating the remainder of the bottom-up mesh

To fully associate the bottom-up mesh, you should verify and edit the association for the faces on the front side, the right side, and on each of the bounding edges and vertices in the bottom-up region. You associate edges and vertices the same way as you associated the element faces in the previous section, except that you select edges and element edges or vertices and nodes, respectively. Abaqus/CAE attempts to associate nodes with vertices and element edges with geometric edges based on proximity. If all the elements along an edge are associated with the faces bounded by that edge, Abaqus/CAE automatically associates the element edges with the geometric edge.