Move Elements
Use the Edit Elements: Move tool to move nodes, drag tria elements, modify holes and washers, and automatically optimize nodes and elements.
Edit Elements: Move Tool
An overview of the Edit Elements: Move tool.
Use the Edit Elements: Move tool to move nodes, drag tria elements, modify holes and washers, and automatically optimize nodes and elements.
- Access
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Options
- Allow to move fixed and shared nodes
- Allow moving fixed and shared nodes for element operations.
- Drag node
- Select a direction to move nodes.
- Optimize node
- Select a direction to automatically move selected nodes and optimize the overall quality of its surrounded elements.
- Stop at boundary
- Stop nodes from moving past the edges of a mesh boundary
- Move mininodes automatically
- Move the mininodes associated with the nodes being moved.
- Allow merging trias
- When dragging tria elements, enable two trias to be merged into one quad element.
- Modify hole direction
- Select a direction to move the nodes around the edges of a hole.
- Move washers automatically
- Automatically move, scale, change the radial or angular position of washer nodes, along with the hole being modified.
- Retain washer width
- Modify the radius of the hole and washer simultaneously.
- Remesh layers around hole
- Automatically remesh layers around a hole after modifying it.
- Number of layers
- Change the number of layers to remesh around a hole.
Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls
To do this | Press |
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Drag nodes along surfaces or edges. Drag holes for circumferential movement. Drag trias. | Left Mouse Click |
Drag nodes across edges, and out of boundary. Drag holes for radial movement. | Alt + Left Mouse Click |
Drag nodes normal to surfaces. Drag holes for angular movement. | Shift + Left Mouse Click |
Drag holes for radial and angular movement. | Shift + Alt + Left Mouse Click |
Optimize elements and nodes along surfaces or edges. | Double-Click |
Optimize elements and nodes across edges. | Alt + Double-Click |
Optimize nodes normal to surfaces. | Shift + Double-Click |
Optimize nodes along and normal to surfaces. | Shift + Alt + Double-Click |