/*!
-\page building_compounds_page Building Compounds
+\page building_compounds_page Building Compound Meshes
\n Compound Mesh is a combination of several meshes. All elements and
groups present in input meshes are present in the compound
-mesh. Neither geometry nor hypotheses of initial meshes are used by
-the compound mesh.
+mesh. However, it does not use geometry or hypotheses of the initial meshes.
+The links between the input meshes and the compound mesh are not
+supported, consequently the modification of an input mesh does not lead to
+the update of the compound mesh.
-<em>To Build a compound:</em>
+<em>To Build a compound mesh:</em>
\par
From the \b Mesh menu select <b>Build Compound</b> or click <em>"Build
\par
<ul>
<li>\b Name - allows selecting the name of the resulting \b Compound mesh.</li>
- <li>\b Meshes - allows selecting the meshes which will be
- concatenated. They can be chosen in the Object Browser while holding
-\b Ctrl button.</li>
+ <li><b>Meshes, sub-meshes, groups</b> - allows selecting the meshes,
+ sub-meshes and groups to be concatenated. They can be
+ chosen in the Object Browser while holding \b Ctrl button.</li>
<li><b>Processing identical groups</b> - allows selecting the method
- of processing the namesake groups existing in the united meshes.
-\n They can be either</li>
- <ul>
- <li>\b United - all elements of Group1 of Mesh_1 and Group1 of Mesh_2
- become the elements of Group1 of the Compound_Mesh, or</li>
- <li>\b Renamed - Group1 of Mesh_1 becomes Group1_1 and Group1 of Mesh_2
- becomes Group1_2.</li>
- </ul>
- See \ref grouping_elements_page "Creating Groups" for more information
- about groups.
- <li><b>Create common groups for initial meshes</b> check-box permits to
+ of processing the namesake groups existing in the input meshes.
+ They can be either <ul>
+ <li>\b United - all elements of \em Group1 of \em Mesh_1 and \em
+ Group1 of \em Mesh_2 become the elements of \em Group1 of the
+ \em Compound_Mesh, or</li>
+ <li>\b Renamed - \em Group1 of \em Mesh_1 becomes \em Group1_1
+ and \em Group1 of \em Mesh_2 becomes \em Group1_2.</li>
+ </ul>
+ See \ref grouping_elements_page "Creating Groups" for more information
+ about groups.</li>
+ <li><b>Create groups from input objects</b> check-box permits to
automatically create groups corresponding to every initial mesh.
- </li>
+
+\image html buildcompound_groups.png "Groups created from input meshes 'Box_large' and 'Box_small'"
+
+ <p></li>
<li>You can choose to additionally
\ref merging_nodes_page "Merge coincident nodes"
\ref merging_elements_page "and elements" in the compound mesh, in
