Node merging on different mesh bodies

Dear Support and Members!

Please see the atteched apex file, which was made in Grizzly. I can't merge the nodes between the different parts. I make a 2.5D mesh bodies on parts, and unable to merge the common faces nodes. What is the best method to mesh all the geometry and the nodes to be connected?

Thank You for suggestions, answers in advance!

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0 Darrel Sinclair over 6 years ago

You can't merge nodes between different Parts in Apex. The node merge tool is primarily intended for merging nodes on orphan meshes (i.e. meshes imported from a Nastran bdf), and in your model it won't work even if you put all the solids into the same Part, because the nodes belong to different mesh bodies.

For a solid mesh, one option is to glue your meshes together. However the better option is probably to create the model as a single partitioned solid. This will mean you can still mesh the cells individually, with individual mesh seeds if necessary, but the final mesh will be congruent.

If you can upgrade to the Harris Hawk release of Apex, you can boolean together your existing solids while retaining them as cells within the new solid:

I hope this helps.
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0 Darrel Sinclair over 6 years ago

You can't merge nodes between different Parts in Apex. The node merge tool is primarily intended for merging nodes on orphan meshes (i.e. meshes imported from a Nastran bdf), and in your model it won't work even if you put all the solids into the same Part, because the nodes belong to different mesh bodies.

For a solid mesh, one option is to glue your meshes together. However the better option is probably to create the model as a single partitioned solid. This will mean you can still mesh the cells individually, with individual mesh seeds if necessary, but the final mesh will be congruent.

If you can upgrade to the Harris Hawk release of Apex, you can boolean together your existing solids while retaining them as cells within the new solid:

I hope this helps.
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