This section describes how you can use the Edit Mesh toolset to edit the elements that comprise orphan meshes and Abaqus/CAE native meshes.
Creating an element Deleting elements Reversing the surface normal direction of shell elements Orienting the stack direction Collapsing an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element Splitting an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element Swapping the diagonal of a pair of adjacent triangular elements Splitting quadrilateral elements Combining triangular elements Renumbering elements Selecting the elements to edit