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diff --git a/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/sewing_meshes.doc b/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/sewing_meshes.doc
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@@ -20,19 +20,82 @@ and from its sub-menu select the \b Sewing item.
Check in the dialog box one of the radio buttons corresponding to
the type of sewing operation you would like to perform.
Fill the other fields available in the dialog box.
-Click the \b Apply or Apply and Close button to perform the operation of sewing.
+Click the \b Apply or Apply and Close button to perform the
+ operation of sewing.
+
\anchor free_borders_anchor
Sew free borders
-This functionality allows you to unite two free borders of a 2D mesh.
+This functionality allows you to unite free borders of a 2D mesh.
+
+There are two working modes: \a Automatic and \a Manual. In the \b
+Automatic mode, the program finds free borders coincident within a
+specified tolerance and sews them. Optionally it is possible to
+visually check and correct is necessary the found free borders before
+sewing.
+In the \b Manual mode you are to define borders to sew by picking
+three nodes of each of two borders.
\image html sewing1.png
+Default mode is \a Automatic
+
+To use \b Automatic sewing:
+
+- Specify a mesh you want to sew by selecting it or any its part
+ (group or sub-mesh) in the Object Browser or in the VTK Viewer.
+- Specify the \b Tolerance within which free borders are considered
+ coincident. At the default zero \b Tolerance, the tolerance used by
+ the search algorithm is defined as one tenth of an average size of
+ elements adjacent to free borders being compared.
+- To visually check the coincident free borders found by the
+ algorithm, switch off Auto Sewing check-box. Then controls
+ to adjust groups of coincident free borders will become available in
+ the dialog.
+
+\image html sewing_auto.png
+Controls to adjust groups of coincident free borders
+
+- \b Detect button launches the algorithm of search of coincident
+ free borders.
+- The found groups of Coincident Free Borders are shown in a
+ list, a group per a line. Each group has its own color which is used
+ to display the borders of the group in the VTK Viewer. A free border
+ within a group is designated by IDs of its first, second and last
+ nodes within parenthesis. All borders present in the list will be
+ sewn upon \b Apply.
+- \b Remove button removes selected groups from the list.
+- Select All check-box selects all groups in the list.
+- When a group is selected, its borders appear in Edit Selected
+ Group list that allows you to change this group.
+-
+\image html sort.png
+Set First button moves the selected border to the
+ first position in the group, as a result other borders will be moved
+ to this border during sewing.
+
-
+\image html remove.png
+Remove Border button removes selected borders from the
+ group. It is active if there are more than two borders in the group.
+
+- Selection of a border in the list allows to change its first and
+ last nodes whose IDs appear in two fields below the list. \a Arrow
+ buttons near each field move the corresponding end node by
+ number of nodes defined by \b Step field.
+-
+\image html swap.png
+Swap button swaps the first and last nodes of a
+ selected border.
+
+
+
+For sewing free borders manually you should switch the \b Mode to \b
+Manual and define three points on each border: first, second and the
+last node:
-For sewing free borders you should define three points on each border:
-first, second and the last node:
+\image html sewing_manual.png
- the first node specifies beginning of the border;
- the second node specifies the part of the border which should be