3 \page building_compounds_page Building Compounds
5 \n Compound Mesh is a combination of several meshes. All elements and
6 groups present in input meshes are present in the compound
7 mesh. Neither geometry nor hypotheses of initial meshes are used by
10 <em>To Build a compound:</em>
13 From the \b Mesh menu select <b>Build Compound</b> or click <em>"Build
14 Compound Mesh"</em> button in the toolbar.
16 \image html image161.png
17 <center><em>"Build Compound Mesh" button</em></center>
20 The following dialog box will appear:
22 \image html buildcompound.png
26 <li>\b Name - allows selecting the name of the resulting \b Compound mesh.</li>
27 <li>\b Meshes - allows selecting the meshes which will be
28 concatenated. They can be chosen in the Object Browser while holding
30 <li><b>Processing identical groups</b> - allows selecting the method
31 of processing the namesake groups existing in the united meshes.
32 \n They can be either</li>
34 <li>\b United - all elements of Group1 of Mesh_1 and Group1 of Mesh_2
35 become the elements of Group1 of the Compound_Mesh, or</li>
36 <li>\b Renamed - Group1 of Mesh_1 becomes Group1_1 and Group1 of Mesh_2
37 becomes Group1_2.</li>
39 See \ref grouping_elements_page "Creating Groups" for more information
41 <li><b>Create common groups for initial meshes</b> check-box permits to
42 automatically create groups corresponding to every initial mesh.
44 <li>You can choose to additionally
45 \ref merging_nodes_page "Merge coincident nodes"
46 \ref merging_elements_page "and elements" in the compound mesh, in
47 which case it is possible to define the \b Tolerance for this
51 \image html image160.gif "Example of a compound of two meshed cubes"
53 <b>See Also</b> a sample
54 \ref tui_building_compound "TUI Example of building compounds."