How to merge surfaces
Altair EmployeeI have imported originally created from stl format surfaces. (Imported into HyperMesh using .igs format.)
Meshing is mostly ideal in the most parts, but it could be could greately improved if I could combine some surfaces , so boundaries between them are ignored.
For example I have 2 triangles which share common edge. I tried to surpress the edges as in tutorial:
'Step 8: Suppress shared edges causing a small edge.
1. Go to the edge edit panel.
2. Go to the (un)suppress sub-panel.
3. Select each of the lines in the image below using your left mouse button and click suppress.
Each line will become suppressed (blue) as you click suppress.'
But selected edge does not become blue and mesh is still following the edge when regenerated.
I have not found the way to merge connected surfaces in one surface either.
Since I am new to HyperMesh I guess I miss something obvious.
Any help is appreciated.
Alex
Answers
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You could also try 'edge edit->toggle' (enter a reasonable cleanup tolerance).
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Are you sure you are using surfaces? An STL 'surface' is typically a tessellation, which means it is actually faceted triangular elements, not surfaces.
If you want to turn the elements in surfaces, then I would suggest creating surfaces from FE in the surfaces panel. Or re-meshing the elements to something else, depending on what your end goal is.
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