Element Panels

one-dimensional

Bars	Creates or updates bar2 or bar3 elements.
Beam Xsect	Calculates beam section properties
Config Edit	Changes the configuration of existing elements.
Edges	Finds free edges and equivalences nodes on edges.
Features	Provides a visualization tool to see the edges of a complex model.
FE Joints	Creates, reviews, or updates joints.
Gaps	Creates or updates gap elements.
HyperBeam	Defines beam section entities before entering the HyperBeam module.
Linear 1D	Creates one-dimensional plot elements.
Line Mesh	Creates 1-D elements between nodes or along a line.
Masses	Creates or updates mass elements.
rbe3	Creates or updates RBE3 elements.
Rigids	Creates or updates rigid or rigidlink elements.
Rods	Creates or updates rod elements.
Spotweld	Creates or updates spotweld elements.
Springs	Creates or updates spring elements.

Automesh	Interactively or automatically creates meshes on surfaces.
Cones	Creates a surface or mesh for cones or cylinders.
Config Edit	Changes the configuration of existing elements.
Detach	Detaches elements from adjoining elements.
Drag	Creates a surface or mesh by dragging nodes, lines, or elements.
Edit Element	Builds, combines, and splits elements.
Elem Offset	Creates solid elements or layers of plate or shell elements based on a plate or shell element by offsetting the shell elements in a direction normal to the surface they form.
Elem Types	Selects and changes existing element types.
Faces	Finds free faces and equivalences nodes of solid elements.
Line Drag	Creates a surface or mesh by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along a line.
Order Change	Changes elements from first to second order, or vise versa.
Penetration	Checks groups for initial penetration problems.
Planes	Creates a planar surface or mesh bounded by planar lines.
Ruled	Creates a surface or mesh from nodes or lines which are unconnected.
Skin	Creates a surface or mesh skin across a set of lines.
Smooth	Improves element quality on a surface mesh.
Spheres	Creates a spherical surface or mesh.
Spin	Creates a surface or mesh by rotating nodes, lines, or elements about a vector.
Spline	Creates a surface or mesh with lines.
Split	Splits elements into pre-defined patterns.
Torus	Creates a toroidal surface or mesh.

Torus	Creates a toroidal surface or mesh.
CFD tetramesh	Create tetramesh for Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses.
Config Edit	Changes the configuration of existing elements.
Detach	Detaches elements from adjoining elements.
Drag	Creates a surface or mesh by dragging nodes, lines, or elements.
Edit Element	Builds, combines, and splits elements.
Elem Offset	Creates solid elements or layers of plate or shell elements based on a plate or shell element by offsetting the shell elements in a direction normal to the surface they form.
Elem Types	Selects and changes existing element types.
Line Drag	Creates a surface or mesh by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along a line.
Linear Solid	Creates solid elements between two groups of plate elements.
Order Change	Changes elements from first to second order, or vise versa.
Smooth	Improves element quality on a surface mesh.
Solid Map	Creates a solid mesh by defining source, destination, and along surfaces.
Solid Mesh	Creates a solid mesh within a volume defined by edge lines.
Spin	Creates a surface or mesh by rotating nodes, lines, or elements about a vector.
Split	Splits elements into pre-defined patterns.
Tetramesh	Allows you to fill an enclosed volume with first or second-order tetrahedral elements.