button in the toolbar. The following dialog box
will appear:Extrusion is a type of surface meshing by generation from discretized lines. It is used to build mesh elements of plus one dimension than the swept ones. Each swept 1D element produces one or more quadrangles (or triangles if one node of a rotated element lays on the revolution axis).
To use extrusion:
1. From the Modification
menu choose the Extrusion item
or click button in the toolbar. The following dialog box
will appear:
2. In this dialog box you should select
the type of elements which will be extruded (1D or 2D),
specify the IDs of the elements which will be extruded by selecting them in the 3D viewer or select the whole mesh or submesh,
specify the vector along which the elements will be extruded,
number of steps
3. Click the Apply or OK button.
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See Also a sample TUI Script of an Extrusion operation.
