Align Mesh

At times it is desirable to have identical meshes on two different surfaces or curves. The align mesh command will attempt to assign correspondence between nodes on surfaces or curves and move the nodes on one surface or curve to match the configuration on the other. The command syntax is:

Align Mesh Surface <id> [CloseTo] Surface <id> [Tolerance <tol>]

Align Mesh Curve <id> [CloseTo] Curve <id> [Tolerance <tol>]

These two commands align the mesh on the first entity with that of the second entity. This means that nodes on the first entity will be moved to the closest location possible to their corresponding nodes on the second entity. This is done without regard to mesh quality, so it is possible to invert elements with this command.

Align Mesh Node <id> [CloseTo] Node <id> [Tolerance <tol>]

This command aligns the first node with the second node, within the limits of the geometric entities that own the nodes. This is also done without respect for element quality.

And example of this is given as follows:

brick x 10

volume 1 copy move 11

surface all except 10 6 vis off

transparent

graphics perspective off

at 5.552503 3.832384 0.134127

from 34.651051 3.640138 -0.193121

up 0.006514 0.999945 -0.008172 mesh surface all

surface 6 smooth scheme randomize free

smooth surface 6

node 432 move 0 0 -0.2

align mesh node 944 node 432

node 432 move 0 0 0.4

align mesh curve 23 closeto curve 12

align mesh surf 10 closeto surf 6