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How to delete the edges or lines on the surface when I import a .stl file

User: "ke zhang"
Altair Community Member
Updated by ke zhang

Hi all,

 

I am using Hypermesh of version 2017.2 to process a geometry.

We used Meshmixer to generate a surface geometry and export as the .stl file. However, the Hypermesh just regards .stl file as mesh when importing the file to it. And it looks like this after import:

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I want to convert it into geometry first. So this is what I do:

Geometry > creat > surface > from FE

This is the setting of from FE:

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The surface looks like this:

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My questions are

1 What the points are on the surface? They are made by Hypermesh? 

2 How to delete the edges on the surface? Because I need to assemble this geometry with another later, and the edges are redundant and a big problem for me to mesh in the future. And I have imported the .stl file into Comsol, and it regards the surface as a whole without edge. So I think the edges might be the features recognized by Hypermesh.

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Ke

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    User: "QuyNguyenDai"
    Altair Community Member
    Accepted Answer
    Updated by QuyNguyenDai

    Press F11 to show the panel "Quick geometry edit":

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    Use "toggke edge" to disable edges; "add/remove point" to remove points if necessary.