Editing elements

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