3 \page merging_nodes_page Merging nodes
5 \n This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
6 with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge.
8 \image html mergenodes_ico.png "Merge nodes button"
10 <em>To merge nodes of your mesh:</em>
12 <li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and from its
13 sub-menu select the <b>Merge nodes</b> item. The following dialog box
16 \image html mergenodes.png
19 <li>\b Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.</li>
20 <li>\b Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for
23 <li>\b Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given
27 <li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groupes of nodes for
28 merging. All nodes of each group will form one after the
31 <li>\b Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.</li>
32 <li>\b Add button adds to the list a group of nodes selected in the
33 viewer with pressed "Shift" key.</li>
34 <li><b>Select all</b> checkbox selects all groups.</li>
37 <li><b>Edit selected group</b> list allows editing the selected
41 <center>adds to the group the node selected in the viewer.</center>
43 \image html remove.png
44 <center>removes from the group the selected node.</center>
47 <center>moves the selected node to the first position in the
48 group. This means that all other nodes will be merged into this
53 <li>To confirm your choice click \b Apply or <b>Apply and Close</b> button.</li>
56 \image html merging_nodes1.png "The initial obgect"
58 \image html merging_nodes2.png "The object has been merged with a very big tolerance"
60 <br><b>See Also</b> a sample TUI Script of a
61 \ref tui_merging_nodes "Merge Nodes" operation.