Changing mesh and geometry without deleting previous mesh

flyforever85
flyforever85 Altair Community Member
edited November 2021 in Community Q&A

I created a 3D mesh of an intricate geometry and after I applied several RBE I realized I need to create a hole in the solid associated with that mesh. If I create the hole now, my whole mesh will disappear, including all the RBE connections. Is there a way to still change the mesh without deleting it? Thank you

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  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited October 2021

    You can copy (duplicate & move) your mesh to keep it.

  • Jason_Craanen
    Jason_Craanen
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2021

    I guess what I would personally try is to just create and attach a new mesh at the new geometry feature. 

    Set this setting to keep from deleting mesh of rest of your model.

    I would also work only on 2d face elements and create tets again after. The face elements will keep nodal association to all other entities like rbe's and loads.

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  • Brian DO_21608
    Brian DO_21608 Altair Community Member
    edited November 2021
    Jason Craanen_20442 said:

    I guess what I would personally try is to just create and attach a new mesh at the new geometry feature. 

    Set this setting to keep from deleting mesh of rest of your model.

    I would also work only on 2d face elements and create tets again after. The face elements will keep nodal association to all other entities like rbe's and loads.

    image

    Hello  Jason Craanen,

    after do it,  we have to associate to surface again ?

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