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What I meant is: How can I know witch nodes or elements have been collapsed?
I do a mirror of a mesh and then I want GID to collapse the common nodes. Then I want to know exactly what he has done.
Other example. I have a complex mesh done outside GID. I run collapse on it and GID tells me that he has collapsed 4 nodes and 1 element. It was not supposed to happen, but maybe the mesh wasn't OK. I would like to know where.

Thanks for the time and patient

Ricardo
________________________________________________________________________
José Ricardo Pontes Resende e-mail: rresende at lnec.pt
Bolseiro de Investigação - Dep. de Barragens telef.: (+351) 218443377
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil fax.: (+351) 218443026
Av. do Brasil, 101
1700-066 LISBOA
PORTUGAL

After collapse mesh, the nodes are renumbered to fill holes in the
numeration (required for some analysis program), and then it is difficult to
know as it is the original node.

You can separate the nodes in layers to try to identify after the collapse.

Select a ImportTolerance minor who the side of smaller element to not delete
elements.

Actually, GiD cannot list the entities deleted in the collapse (and the
renumber it would make difficult it).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Resende" rresende at lnec.pt
To: gidlist at gatxan.cimne.upc.es
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: [ GiDlist ] Controlling Collapse


What I meant is: How can I know witch nodes or elements have been
collapsed?
I do a mirror of a mesh and then I want GID to collapse the common nodes.
Then I want to know exactly what he has done.
Other example. I have a complex mesh done outside GID. I run collapse on
it and GID tells me that he has collapsed 4 nodes and 1 element. It was not
supposed to happen, but maybe the mesh wasn't OK. I would like to know
where.

Thanks for the time and patient

Ricardo
________________________________________________________________________
José Ricardo Pontes Resende e-mail: rresende at lnec.pt
Bolseiro de Investigação - Dep. de Barragens telef.: (+351) 218443377
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil fax.: (+351) 218443026
Av. do Brasil, 101
1700-066 LISBOA
PORTUGAL