Creating Nodes

You can create new nodes between two existing nodes. The new nodes can be used to create elements, and they are included in the new mesh if you remesh the area.

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.
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Editing Meshes
  1. From the Edit section of the action bar, click Node Creation .
    The Node Creation dialog box appears.
  2. Select the method for node creation.
    • Choose Number of nodes, and enter a value to create the specified number of nodes.
    • Choose Distance, and enter a value to specify the distance between the created nodes.
  3. Select a starting and ending node from the mesh.
    If you create nodes by number, the new nodes are spaced equally from each other and from the end nodes. If you create nodes by distance, the new nodes are spaced equally apart from each other and from the endpoints, using the specified distance as the starting point.
    Note: The actual distance between nodes is D/(N+1), where D is the distance between the selected end nodes and N is the number of nodes added. N is calculated to minimize the difference between the specified distance and the actual distance between all the nodes.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • Click Close to save the new nodes and to end the node creation procedure.
    • Click Cancel to cancel creation of the new nodes and to end the procedure.