Insert Multi-element: Plates on Beam Polygons

Description

Converts selected sets of connected beam elements that form trilateral or quadrilateral polygons, into Tri3 and Quad4 plate elements, respectively.

Dialog

Create Quad4

If set, attempts to create Quad4 elements on quadrilateral polygons that satisfy the three tolerances, Min Internal Angle, Max Internal Angle and Max Normal Angle.

If not set, only Tri3 elements are created on trilateral polygons.

Min Internal Angle

Minimum internal angle for a Quad4 element.

Max Internal Angle

Maximum internal angle for a Quad4 element.

Max Normal Angle

The maximum angle between the normals of any two triangles formed by the corners of a quadrilateral polygon before the polygon is considered as a candidate to generate a Quad4 plate element.

Delete beams

If set, the beams are deleted after generating the plate elements.

Common Controls

• Keep Selection

See Also

• Mesh Tools: Loft Beams
• Merge Tools: Element Pairs
• Merge Tools: Tris to Quads
• Mesh Tools: Surface Automesh