Coarsen: 1D Tool

An overview of the Coarsen: 1D tool.



Figure 1.

Use the Coarsen 1D tool to coarsen 1D elements and components.

Access
Go to Elements > Coarsen > 1D.

Options

Element size
The size of the element.
Maximum deviation factor
The maximum allowable deviation between an element edge and a geometry edge, as a factor of the average element size.
Feature angle
The feature angle for common edge smoothing.
Delete small features factor
Remove most features that become detached during the coarsening process, which are underneath the target input size that you specified.