Creating Elements

You can create new elements in the surface mesh.

Before you begin: Create a surface mesh in the finite element model representation and open it in either the Mesh Editor or the Surface Mesher.
See Also
Editing Meshes
  1. From the Edit section of the action bar, click Element Creation .
    The Element Creation dialog box appears.
  2. Select the element type: triangle or quadrangle.
  3. Select the new element locations on the surface mesh.

    When you move the pointer over the existing mesh, potential new elements are highlighted. If the highlighting function does not show an element that you want to add, select the desired corner nodes until the correct element shape is displayed.

    When you click the highlighted element or complete selection of an element's nodes, it is added to the mesh.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • Click Close to save the new elements and to end the element creation procedure.
    • Click Cancel to cancel creation of the new elements and to end the procedure.