\page merging_nodes_page Merging nodes
-\n This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
-with desirable tolerance, edit these groups and merge.
+This functionality allows user to detect groups of coincident nodes
+with specified tolerance; each group of the coincident nodes can be
+then converted to the single node.
\image html mergenodes_ico.png "Merge nodes button"
<em>To merge nodes of your mesh:</em>
<ol>
-<li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and from its
+<li>From the \b Modification choose \b Transformation and from its
sub-menu select the <b>Merge nodes</b> item. The following dialog box
shall appear:</li>
-
+<br>
\image html mergenodes_auto.png
-
-<li><b>Automatic mode:</b>
+<br>
<ul>
<li>\b Name is the name of the mesh whose nodes will be merged.</li>
-<li>\b Automatic Mode or \b Manual Mode is to switch the dialog
-controls type.
+<li>\b Automatic or \b Manual Mode allows choosing how the nodes are
+processed.
<li>\b Tolerance is a maximum distance between nodes sufficient for
-merging, that is able in both dialog modes.</li>
-<li>In \b Automatic Mode to merge the Nodes, just input the tolerance
-value and confirm by \b Apply button.</li>
+merging.</li>
+<li><b>Exclude Groups</b> group box allows to ignore the nodes which
+belong to the specified mesh groups.
</ul>
-</li><br>
-
-\image html mergenodes.png
-<li>If the \b Manual Mode is selected there are additional controls to
-manage the nodes to be merged in more detail:
+<li><b>Automatic mode:</b>
+<br>
+<ul>
+<li>In the \b Automatic Mode all Nodes within the indicated tolerance
+will be merged. The nodes which belong to the groups specified in the
+<b>Exclude Groups</b> will be not taken into account.</li>
+</ul>
+</li><br>
+<li>If the \b Manual Mode is selected, additional controls are available:
<ul>
<li>\b Detect button generates the list of coincident nodes for the given
\b Tolerance.</li>
-<li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groupes of nodes for
+<li><b>Coincident nodes</b> is a list of groups of nodes for
merging. All nodes of each group will form one after the
operation.
<ul>
viewer with pressed "Shift" key.</li>
<li><b>Select all</b> checkbox selects all groups.</li>
</ul>
+
+<br>
+\image html mergenodes.png
+<br>
</li>
<li><b>Edit selected group</b> list allows editing the selected
group:
