This functionality allows to merge coincident elements of a mesh selectable in the dialog box.
Merge elements button
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Name is the name of the mesh whose elements will be merged.
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Tolerance is a maximum distance between elements sufficient for merging.
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Detect button generates the list of coincident elements for the given Tolerance.
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Coincident elements is a list of groupes of elements for merging. All elements of each group will form one after the operation.
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Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.
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Add button adds to the list a group of elements selected in the viewer with pressed "Shift" key.
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Select all checkbox selects all groups.
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Edit selected group list allows editing the selected group:
adds to the group the element selected in the viewer.
removes from the group the selected element.
moves the selected element to the first position in the group. This means that all other elements will be merged into this one.
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To confirm your choice click Apply or Apply and Close button.
In this picture you see a triangle which coincides with one of the elements of the mesh. After we apply Merge Elements functionality, the triangle will be completely merged with the mesh.
See Also a sample TUI Script of a Merge Elements operation.