The Problem: Conflicting Transitions Prevent Connector Realization

In the picture below, the regular quad mesh can be easily performed. There is enough space available and the quad transition areas don’t conflict each other.

However, when the components are brought closer together, the realization fails because the transition areas conflict with each other:

Smaller conflicts can be resolved automatically by the resolve conflicting imprints option when realizing the connectors. This releases the overlapping elements and performs a normal remesh in that area. This is permitted as long as the overlapping area is smaller than half the regular quad transition element size:

However, if a conflict is too great it cannot be resolved in this fashion.  For such cases, the mesh edit - imprint functionality can be used to solve the problem.

The Solution: Manual Mesh Imprint

Ideally all connectors expected to conflict with each other are realized with the skip imprint option in a first step. This creates the weld elements and the mesh pattern for each connector. The pattern elements are organized into a component named ^conn_imprint.

In the second step, the conflicting elements can be manually modified with all of the functions that HyperMesh provides.

In a third step the manual mesh imprint is performed. The elements from the ^conn_imprint component are selected as the source and the elements from the affected components are selected as destination mesh.

By activating the checkbox elems to destination comp the elements from the ^conn_imprint components are automatically organized into the appropriate destination components: