Welcome to SMESH’s documentation!

• Introduction to Mesh module
• About meshes
  • Constructing meshes
    • Creation of a mesh object
    • Evaluating mesh size
    • Previewing the mesh
    • Changing sub-mesh priority
    • Computing the mesh
    • Editing the mesh
  • Constructing sub-meshes
    • How to get a sub-shape for sub-mesh construction
    • How hypotheses are selected among sub-meshes
    • How to construct a sub-mesh
    • Sub-mesh in the Object Browser
  • Editing Meshes
  • Importing and exporting meshes
    • Auto Groups
  • Building Compound Meshes
  • Copy Mesh
  • Nodal connectivity of elements
• Modifying meshes
  • Adding nodes and elements
    • Adding nodes
    • Adding 0D elements
    • Making 0D elements on Element Nodes
    • Adding ball elements
    • Adding edges
    • Adding triangles
    • Adding quadrangles
    • Adding polygons
    • Adding tetrahedrons
    • Adding hexahedrons
    • Adding hexagonal prism
    • Adding polyhedrons
  • Adding Quadratic Elements
  • Removing nodes and elements
    • Removing nodes
    • Removing orphan nodes
    • Removing elements
    • Clearing Mesh Data
  • Translation
  • Rotation
  • Scale
  • Symmetry
  • Duplicate Nodes or/and Elements
    • Duplicate nodes only
    • Duplicate nodes and border elements
    • Duplicate elements only
    • Duplicate nodes on group boundaries
  • Sewing meshes
    • Sew free borders
    • Sew conform free borders
    • Sew border to side
  • Merging nodes
  • Merging Elements
  • Moving nodes
  • Diagonal inversion of two triangles
  • Uniting two triangles
  • Uniting a set of triangles
  • Changing orientation of elements
  • Orient faces
  • Cutting quadrangles
  • Splitting volumes
  • Split bi-quadratic into linear
  • Smoothing
  • Extrusion
    • Example: creation of a structured mesh from scratch
  • Extrusion along Path
    • Extrusion along a straight edge
  • Revolution
  • Pattern mapping
    • About patterns
    • Application of pattern mapping
    • Mapping algorithm
  • Convert to/from Quadratic Mesh
  • Generate boundary elements
  • Generate flat elements on group boundaries or on faces
  • Cut a tetrahedron mesh by a plane
    • Using MeshCut as a standalone program, outside SALOME
    • Using MeshCut inside SALOME
• Grouping elements
  • Creating groups
    • “Standalone Group”
    • “Group on Geometry”
    • “Group on Filter”
  • Create Groups from Geometry
  • Group Based on Nodes of Other Groups
  • Boolean operations on groups
    • Union of groups
    • Intersection of groups
    • Cut of groups
  • Editing groups
    • Convert to stanalone group
  • Deleting groups with content
• About filters
  • Selection filter library
    • Filter Dialog
• Viewing meshes
  • Quadratic 2D
    • Mesh Information
    • Find Element by Point
    • Numbering
    • Display Mode
    • Display Entity
    • Properties
    • Transparency
    • Clipping
• About quality controls
  • Free nodes
  • Double nodes
  • Free borders
  • Length
  • Borders at multi-connection
  • Double edge, Double faces and Double volumes
  • Free edges
  • Free faces
  • Bare border faces
  • Over-constrained faces
  • Length 2D
  • Borders at multi-connection 2D
  • Area
  • Taper
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Minimum angle
  • Warping
  • Skew
  • Element Diameter 2D
  • Aspect ratio 3D
  • Volume
  • Element Diameter 3D
  • Bare border volumes
  • Over-constrained volumes
  • Scalar Bar properties
• Measurements
  • Minimum Distance
  • Bounding Box
  • Basic Properties
• Using SALOME NoteBook
• Mesh preferences
  • General Preferences
    • Automatic Update
    • Display mode
    • Quadratic 2D preferences
    • Double nodes tolerance
    • Automatically create groups for MED export
    • Show warning when exporting group
    • Mesh computation
    • Mesh information
    • Automatic nodes compute limit
    • Automatic controls compute limit
    • Detailed info for groups
    • Ratio Bounding Box Diagonal
    • Default Number of Segments
  • Mesh Preferences
  • Selection Preferences
  • Scalar Bar Preferences
• Python interface
  • Example of 3d mesh generation:
    • Modifing Mesh Python scripts from SALOME 6 and before
• Plugins