Fuse 2D Shell Meshes
Use the Fuse tool to connect discrete topology surfaces/solids/parts. The Fuse tool can be utilized to connect close proximity inputs by defining a threshold.
Imprinting points on lines or surfaces creates geometry vertices similar to using the Split tool. Imprinting surfaces on surfaces imprints all source surfaces edges to the target surfaces.
The imprint direction is always normal to targets.
Fuse Tool
An overview of the Fuse tool.
Use the Fuse tool to connect discrete topology surfaces/solids/parts. The Fuse tool can be utilized to connect close proximity inputs by defining a threshold.
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Options
- Retain interface
- Retains surfaces at source and target solid connection. Enabling this option will keep solids separate after fusing. If this option is turned off, solids will be merged after fuse.
- Remesh at connection
- Remesh region neighboring fused region. Turn on if the input surfaces have good quality mesh. During remeshing, element size, type, and order is determined by the surrounding element's size and type.
- Fusing direction
- Select a type of projection from source to target.
- Create patch at connection
- Creates a patch between the proximity of given surfaces/solids. If turned off, it will fuse by snapping source nodes to target, which may result in distortion if the proximity distance is large.
- Connect at free edge only
- Only connect source free edges to target. This option is useful when you are connecting open surfaces and wants to make the connection through free edges only.
- Remove redundant patches
- Consider removing redundant patches.
- Redundant patch maximum width factor
- Change the redundant patch maximum width factor of fuse threshold value.
- Snap to features
- Consider snapping to features.
- Feature snapping factor
- Change feature snapping tolerance factor of fuse threshold value, within which the nodes positions resulting after the fusing of source and target elements can be snapped to features.
- Feature angle
- The maximum allowable break angle between adjacent surfaces.