3 \page merging_nodes_page Merging nodes
5 \n This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
6 with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge.
8 \image html mergenodes_ico.png "Merge nodes button"
10 <em>To merge nodes of your mesh:</em>
12 <li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and from its
13 sub-menu select the <b>Merge nodes</b> item. The following dialog box
16 \image html mergenodes_auto.png
19 <li>\b Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.</li>
20 <li>\b Automatic Mode or \b Manual Mode is to switch the dialog
22 <li>\b Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for
23 merging, that is able in both dialog modes.</li>
26 <li><b>Automatic mode:</b>
29 <li>In \b Automatic Mode to merge the Nodes, just input the tolerance
30 value and confirm by \b Apply button.</li>
33 <li>If the \b Manual Mode is selected there are additional controls to
34 manage the nodes to be merged in more detail:
36 <li>\b Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given
38 <li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groupes of nodes for
39 merging. All nodes of each group will form one after the
42 <li>\b Remove button deletes the selected group from the list.</li>
43 <li>\b Add button adds to the list a group of nodes selected in the
44 viewer with pressed "Shift" key.</li>
45 <li><b>Select all</b> checkbox selects all groups.</li>
48 \image html mergenodes.png
51 <li><b>Edit selected group</b> list allows editing the selected
55 <center>adds to the group the node selected in the viewer.</center>
57 \image html remove.png
58 <center>removes from the group the selected node.</center>
61 <center>moves the selected node to the first position in the
62 group. This means that all other nodes will be merged into this
67 <li>To confirm your choice click \b Apply or <b>Apply and Close</b> button.</li>
70 \image html merging_nodes1.png "The initial obgect"
72 \image html merging_nodes2.png "The object has been merged with a very big tolerance"
74 <br><b>See Also</b> a sample TUI Script of a
75 \ref tui_merging_nodes "Merge Nodes" operation.