3 \page merging_nodes_page Merging nodes
5 This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
6 with specified tolerance; each group of the coincident nodes can be
7 then converted to the single node.
9 \image html mergenodes_ico.png "Merge nodes button"
11 <em>To merge nodes of your mesh:</em>
13 <li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and from its
14 sub-menu select the <b>Merge nodes</b> item. The following dialog box
17 \image html mergenodes_auto.png
20 <li>\b Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.</li>
21 <li>\b Automatic or \b Manual Mode allows choosing how the nodes are
23 <li>\b Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for
25 <li><b>Exclude Groups</b> group box allows to ignore the nodes which
26 belong to the specified mesh groups.
29 <li><b>Automatic mode:</b>
32 <li>In the \b Automatic Mode all Nodes within the indicated tolerance
33 will be merged. The nodes which belong to the groups specified in the
34 <b>Exclude Groups</b> will be not taken into account.</li>
37 <li>If the \b Manual Mode is selected, additional controls are available:
39 <li>\b Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given
41 <li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groups of nodes for
42 merging. All nodes of each group will form one after the
45 <li>\b Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.</li>
46 <li>\b Add button adds to the list a group of nodes selected in the
47 viewer with pressed "Shift" key.</li>
48 <li><b>Select all</b> checkbox selects all groups.</li>
52 \image html mergenodes.png
55 <li><b>Edit selected group</b> list allows editing the selected
59 <center>adds to the group the node selected in the viewer.</center>
61 \image html remove.png
62 <center>removes from the group the selected node.</center>
65 <center>moves the selected node to the first position in the
66 group. This means that all other nodes will be merged into this
71 <li>To confirm your choice click \b Apply or <b>Apply and Close</b> button.</li>
74 \image html merging_nodes1.png "The initial obgect"
76 \image html merging_nodes2.png "The object has been merged with a very big tolerance"
78 <br><b>See Also</b> a sample TUI Script of a
79 \ref tui_merging_nodes "Merge Nodes" operation.