\page sewing_meshes_page Sewing meshes
-\n In SMESH you can sew elements of different meshes. The current
+\n In SMESH you can sew elements of a mesh. The current
functionality allows you to sew:
<ul>
<li>\ref free_borders_anchor "Free borders"</li>
\image html sewing.png "Sewing button"
-<em>To sew elements of different meshes:</em>
+<em>To sew elements of a mesh:</em>
<ol>
<li>From the \b Modification menu choose the \b Transformation item
and from its sub-menu select the \b Sewing item.</li>
nodes of two borders will be either merged or inserted into faces of
the opposite border.
+In practice the borders to sew often coincide and in this case it is
+difficult to specify the first and the last nodes of a border since
+they coincide with the first and the last nodes of the other
+border. To cope with this, manually \ref merging_nodes_page to fuse
+each pair of coincident nodes into one.
+
The sewing algorithm is as follows:
<ol>
<li>The parameter (U) of each node within a border is computed. So
<b>See Also</b> a sample TUI Script of a
\ref tui_sew_side_elements "Sew Side Elements" operation.
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