Duplicating volume meshes

Volume meshes may be proliferated by duplicating existing ones. The position and orientation of the duplicated meshes are determined by moving, revolving or mirroring coordinates of original objects with specified offsets. Surface meshes and curves are subsidiary objects belonging to a volume mesh.

They are duplicated together with their host volume mesh. The procedure of duplicating volume meshes is the same as that of duplicating curves. In order to start duplicating volume meshes, click volume selection tool if it is not in action. Then, select one of the submenu items for duplications: "Move", "Revolve" or "Mirror" Further details of duplication procedure are explained in Chapter  "3, and are not repeated here.

There is no limit in the number of duplicates which can be made at once. You can specify the number of duplication using the dialog box for the corresponding duplication method. VisualFEA does not check the interference between meshes. So, you must be cautious about interference or compatibility of meshes when duplicating volume meshes. The following figure shows examples of multiplying volume meshes by duplicating existing ones with moving, revolving or mirroring.

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