**degenerated_cleaner

Description

This command looks for degenerated elements in the mesh and tries to transform them to Zebulon format:

• c3d8 (degenerated) to c3d5 or c3d6

• c3d20 (degenerated) to c3d13 or c3d15

These elements usually appear when importing from Abaqus or Ansys.

Syntax

**degenerated_cleaner \(~\,\) [ *elset elset_name ]

The degenerated elements can be grouped (by type) in element sets whose names start with elset_name.

Example

A degenerated element c3d8 given by

**element
  1
  1 c3d8 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 5

is transformed to a c3d5 as

**element
  1
  1 c3d5 1 4 3 2 5