Mesh View#
Description#
The main-level command Mesh is intended as a final mesh visualization and manipulation command.
An example session screen shot is shown below, with the major command features displayed:
It is possible to define Nset, F/Elset by selecting directly the entities in the mesh using the secondary edit commands “Select Nset” and “Select F/Elset”.
Select Nset :
Set the name of the new Nset.
Set the section mode: “Node Sets /Liset by edge”, “Node by single point” and “Node/sets/Faset by face”.
Click on the button “Start”, then select the nodes to form the group of nodes “Nset”.
Click on the button “Finish” to end the selection and create the Nset.
Note
When selecting the nodes, it is possible to select only one element face and extend the selection to the other element faces by using the button “Extend”. The extension is controlled using the “Crit angle” which is the maximum angle between normals of adjacent fasets. It is also possible to append extra nodes using their ids.
Select F/Elset :
Set the name of the new Faset/Elset.
Click on the button “Start”, then select the faces/elements to form the group of faces/elements “F/Elset”.
Click on the button “Finish” to end the selection and create the Faset/Elset.
Note
After creation of new node sets and element sets, one should not forget to save the new mesh (“File” \(\longrightarrow\) “Save”).
Mesh information :
In order to display mesh information such as the number of nodes/elements, element types, Nset, Bsets, and Elsets, click on “Tools” \(\longrightarrow\) “Show mesh information”.
Mesh connections :
In order to show mesh connections between mesh entities such as nodes with Nsets, Bsets, Elements and Elsets, click on “Tools” \(\longrightarrow\) “Show mesh connections”.
