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diff --git a/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/cartesian_algo.doc b/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/cartesian_algo.doc
index 3240150c7..7bf830690 100644
--- a/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/cartesian_algo.doc
+++ b/doc/salome/gui/SMESH/input/cartesian_algo.doc
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ nodes are inside and some outside.
To apply this algorithm when you define your mesh, select Body
Fitting in the list of 3D algorithms and click "Add
Hypothesis" button and "Body Fitting Parameters"" menu
- item. Dialog of Body Fitting Parameters
+item. Dialog of Body Fitting Parameters
hypothesis will appear.
@@ -42,34 +42,64 @@ To apply this algorithm when you define your mesh, select Body
This dialog allows to define
-- \b Name of the algorithm
-- Minimal size of a cell truncated by the geometry boundary. If the
- size of a truncated grid cell is \b Threshold times less than a
- initial cell size, then a mesh element is not created.
-- Cartesian structured grid. Each grid axis is defined
- individually. Definition mode chooses a way of grid
- definition:
- - You can specify the \b Coordinates of grid nodes. \b Insert button
- inserts a node at distance \b Step (negative or positive) from a
- selected node. \b Delete button removes a selected node. Double
- click on a coordinate in the list enables its edition. A grid
- defined by \b Coordinates should enclose the geometry, else the
- algorithm will fail.
- - You can define the \b Spacing of a grid as an algebraic formula
- f(t) where \a t is a position along a grid axis
- normalized at [0.0,1.0]. The whole range of geometry can be
- divided into sub-ranges with their own spacing formulas to apply;
+
- \b Name of the algorithm.
+ - Minimal size of a cell truncated by the geometry boundary. If the
+ size of a truncated grid cell is \b Threshold times less than a
+ initial cell size, then a mesh element is not created.
+ - Implement Edges check-box activates incorporation of
+ geometrical edges in the mesh.
+\image html cartesian_implement_edge.png "'Implement Edges' switched off (left) and on (right)"
+
- Cartesian structured grid. Location of nodes along each grid axis
+ is defined individually. Definition mode chooses a way of
+ grid definition:
+
+ - You can specify the \b Coordinates of grid nodes. \b Insert button
+ inserts a node at distance \b Step (negative or positive) from a
+ selected node. \b Delete button removes a selected node. Double
+ click on a coordinate in the list enables its edition.
+ \b Note that node coordinates are measured along directions of
+ axes that can differ from the directions of the Global Coordinate
+ System.
+ - You can define the \b Spacing of a grid as an algebraic formula
+ f(t) where \a t is a position along a grid axis
+ normalized at [0.0,1.0]. The whole range of geometry can be
+ divided into sub-ranges with their own spacing formulas to apply;
\a t varies between 0.0 and 1.0 within each sub-range. \b Insert button
- divides a selected range into two ones. \b Delete button adds the
- selected sub-range to the previous one. Double click on a range in
- the list enables edition of its right boundary. Double click on a
- function in the list enables its edition.
-
-
+ divides a selected range into two ones. \b Delete button adds the
+ selected sub-range to the previous one. Double click on a range in
+ the list enables edition of its right boundary. Double click on a
+ function in the list enables its edition.
+
+
+ Coordinates of a Fixed Point. They allow to exactly
+ locate a grid node in a direction defined by spacing. If all the three
+ directions are defined by spacing, then there will be a mesh node at
+ the Fixed Point. If two directions are defined by spacing,
+ then there will be at least a link between mesh nodes passing through
+ the Fixed Point. If only one direction is defined by spacing,
+ then there will be at least an element facet passing through
+ the Fixed Point. If no directions are defined by spacing,
+ Fixed Point is disabled.
+ Directions of Axes. You can set up almost any
+ directions of grid axes that can help in generation of as many as
+ possible hexahedral elements.
+
+ - Orthogonal Axes check-box, if activated, keeps the
+ axes orthogonal during their modification.
+ - Selection buttons enable snapping corresponding axes to
+ direction of a geometrical edge selected in the Object
+ Browser. Edge direction is defined by coordinates of its end
+ points.
+ - Optimal Axes button runs an algorithm that tries to
+ set the axes so that a number of generated hexahedra to be
+ maximal.
+ - Reset button returns the axes in a default position
+ parallel to the axes of the Global Coordinate System.
+
-See Also a sample TUI Script of a
-\ref tui_cartesian_algo "Usage of Body Fitting algorithm".
+See Also a sample TUI Script of a
+\ref tui_cartesian_algo "Usage of Body Fitting algorithm".
*/