Associate existing mesh to new surface

Jaja
Jaja New Altair Community Member
edited August 2023 in Community Q&A

I am adding new surface therefore new mesh.

Even tough I  associated exisrting nodes, by node edit, to new surfaces, new mesh that i create is not matching the nodes in the corner.

 

How can i handle that. 

thanks in advance.

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  • Jason_Craanen
    Jason_Craanen
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2023

    Hello,

    There are two aspects to associate. The actual association (you can select elements by their surface). This does not automatically move them.

    There is also the physical location.

    You may need to adjust the Snap Tolerance and check Move Nodes to the the behavior you want.

    https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/pre_processing/meshing/element_nodes_associate_t.htm?zoom_highlight=associate+nodes+to+geometry

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    Thanks

    jason

  • Jaja
    Jaja New Altair Community Member
    edited August 2023

    Thank you Jason. 

     

    Is that working also from surface to elements?

    I am doing from Node/Edit menu from Hypermesh, It is aligning the existing nodes to edge of the surface.

    However the new mesh crated on the surface not matching that nodes.

     

  • Jason_Craanen
    Jason_Craanen
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2023
    Jaja said:

    Thank you Jason. 

     

    Is that working also from surface to elements?

    I am doing from Node/Edit menu from Hypermesh, It is aligning the existing nodes to edge of the surface.

    However the new mesh crated on the surface not matching that nodes.

     

    Hello Jaja,

    Can you show a quick screengrab of what you mean?

    It sounds like you are trying to associate nodes to an existing surface edge and then mesh that surface with matched nodes.

    Something like this?

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