What is the procedure for automatically creating a mesh of two surfaces that is compatible at their intersection? For instance, the mesh shown below is incompatible, which is unsuitable for finite element analysis at a later stage. Could anyone please assist?
This might help:
Did you mean to write combability or should the topic title read as compatibility?
hi Martin, yes you are correct. it’s a spelling mistake there. I can’t figure out how to edit the post though.
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If you want to do this manually you can stitch the vertices of the mesh which has more vertices along the edge at the locations of the vertices of the other mesh. This can be done with the Stitch command.
Post a file if it’s unclear?
Here’s another topic with a Grasshopper definition which might be helpful:
Thanks Martin for offering help, and thank you for bringing similar topics. I am not aware so many people are having the same issue that is how to create compatible mesh at non manifold edges.
I need a universal/automatic way for meshing this. Manually stitching vertices would be very painful as there are thousands of them.
Here is a “simple” steel connection I wanted to mesh:
(it is a connection in a truss bridge)
intersection Surfaces Mesh Compatibility.igs (124.6 KB)
Can you please share a Rhino file?