Associate 2D mesh with surface
Hello.
Maybe a trivial question here, but when a 2D mesh is created on a surface and for some reason a translation of both the surface and the mesh is performed, the association between them is lost (naturally) and then the process of selecting elements or nodes on that particular surface becomes laborious. As far as I know, one can go to Geometry-->Node edit and then select 'Associate' to fix this, but only one surface, one line etc. can be selected, making the process hard, or impossible when large meshes have to be processed. Any ideas on how to perform the association faster?
Thank you.
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Hi Rahul,
my question is not on automesh panel. I was referring to an already meshed surface using the automesh option, where the mesh has to be translated (for some reason) say on the y axis. If you translate the associated surface on the same axis and the same distance the two entities (mesh, surface) are not related to each other anymore (as expected). How do you re-associate them quickly and accurately?
Hi Rahul,
my question is not on automesh panel. I was referring to an already meshed surface using the automesh option, where the mesh has to be translated (for some reason) say on the y axis. If you translate the associated surface on the same axis and the same distance the two entities (mesh, surface) are not related to each other anymore (as expected). How do you re-associate them quickly and accurately?
Understanding you because I faced it many times.
I have script to do that.
In a simple case, you can F11 toggle all green lines, your cad will become 1 surf and you can associate nodes in one click
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@tinh can you share your script? It is currently very tedious to re-associate nodes to geometry. A script/function that allows selection of multiple surfaces/lines at once in the node edit panel would solve the issue.
To my knowledge Automesh panel creates mesh on selected surface & ensures connectivity of mesh with surface.Meshing on planar area will not have any issue of node to surface connectivity.