12.3.11. Flex Merge

RecurDyn/Mesher supports to merge the nodes of elements.

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Figure 12.66 Flex Merge dialog box

  • Target Topology: Select the basis topology entity to merge.

  • Source Topology: The nodes of the selected topology entities are merged to the nodes of the target topology.

  • Calc.: Nodes of the selected entity and the target entity are calculated if they are within the distance tolerance.

  • OK: Nodes are merged each other, then the elements that belong to the entities share the merged nodes.

Note

When the nodes of the beam element are merged, the orientation of the connected beam element does not change. Therefore, if the elements with opposite orientations are merged, the torque result at the node is wrong.