Editing the entire mesh

This section describes how you can use the Edit Mesh toolset to perform a global edit of a mesh containing orphan mesh components or Abaqus/CAE native mesh components or a combination of both mesh types.


In this section:

Generating layers of solid elements offset from an existing mesh
Generating layers of shell elements offset from an existing mesh
Wrapping a mesh about the Z-axis
Collapsing short edges of a linear orphan mesh
Growing short edges of a linear orphan mesh
Converting a triangular shell mesh to a solid tetrahedral mesh
Converting a solid orphan mesh to a shell orphan mesh
Merging elements
Subdividing elements
Copying a mesh pattern
Viewing and editing mesh-geometry associativity
Deleting mesh-geometry associativity
Inserting cohesive seams