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95 <h1>Building Compounds</h1>
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97 <p>Compound Mesh is a combination of several meshes.</p>
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99 <p class="whs1"> To
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100 Build a compound:</p>
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102 <p class="whs2">From the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Mesh</B></span>
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103 menu select <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Build Compound</B></span> or
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111 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs7"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Name</B></span>
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112 - allows selecting the name of the resulting <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Compound</B></span></p></li>
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114 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs7"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Meshes
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115 </B></span>- allows selecting the meshes which will be concatenated. They
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116 can be chosen in the Object Browser while holding <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Ctrl</B></span>
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119 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs7"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Processing
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120 identical groups</B></span> - allows selecting the method of processing the
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121 namesake existing on the united meshes. They can be either </p></li>
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123 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs8"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>United</B></span>
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124 - all elements of Group1
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127 become the elements of Group1
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128 on the Compound_Mesh,
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131 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs8"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Renamed</B></span>
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137 See <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B><a href="grouping_elements.htm">Creating
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138 Groups</a></B></span> for more information about groups. </p></li>
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140 <li class=kadov-p><p class="whs9"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
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141 can simply unite meshes or choose to</span> Merge coincident nodes and
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142 elements, <span style="font-weight: normal;">in which case it is possible
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143 to define the</span> Tolerance <span style="font-weight: normal;">for
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144 this operation.</span> </p></li>
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147 <p class="whs10">Example:</p>
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