Removal of dotted lines after unspliting surfaces

Rafał Szypulski_22596
Rafał Szypulski_22596 Altair Community Member
edited July 2022 in Community Q&A

Hello!

Is there any way to permamently delete those dotted lines after unspliting surfaces? Thank you in advance.

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Answers

  • PaulAltair
    PaulAltair
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2022

    When they are dotted, they are not 'unsplit', just suppressed, you can hide them by unchecking the suppressed box during editing

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    Or... to really unsplit (remove the edge completely), you can use unsplit (dropdown next to split)

    NB. to do this, you will need to first unsuppress the edge (back to green/shared in topology display)

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    But I would normally do as you have done and suppress instead, functionally it does the same thing for mesh generation/seeding, and you have more flexibility to go back. 

    Why do you need to remove them completely?

  • Rafał Szypulski_22596
    Rafał Szypulski_22596 Altair Community Member
    edited July 2022

    When they are dotted, they are not 'unsplit', just suppressed, you can hide them by unchecking the suppressed box during editing

     image

     

    Or... to really unsplit (remove the edge completely), you can use unsplit (dropdown next to split)

    NB. to do this, you will need to first unsuppress the edge (back to green/shared in topology display)

    image

    But I would normally do as you have done and suppress instead, functionally it does the same thing for mesh generation/seeding, and you have more flexibility to go back. 

    Why do you need to remove them completely?

    The only reason I wanted them surpressed is due to the fact that after I project lines on the surface (for further definition of composite layup) they cannot be selected as one. Each blue dotted line starts a new segment thus making the process of line selection more troublesome. 

    Thank you very much for your answer!