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.

• 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