Preserve Edges

Both the BatchMesher and the autocleanup features seek to improve mesh speed and/or quality by suppressing minor features (which are assumed to be insignificant). However, sometimes minor features are still important to your analysis. The Preserve Edges macro provides a way to ensure that specific components edges and feature lines do not accidentally get discarded during autocleanup or batch meshing.

When you click Preserve Edges, a new pop-up window opens to accept your settings:

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The following options are available for the Preserve Edges macro:

Option

Description

Clear at start

When this checkbox is active, any previously stored feature lines will purge each time you click Select Edges or Select Comps. Thus, picking a new set of lines starts over instead of adding to the selection.

Select Edges

Clicking this button displays a line selector in the panel area. Use the lines selector to choose the edges you wish preserved.

Show Preserved

Click this button to highlight the lines already marked for preservation.

Comps selection boundary

When active, this checkbox prevents the auto-cleanup function from equivalencing the boundaries between adjacent components.

Select Comps

Clicking this button displays a component selector in the panel area. Use the comps selector to choose the components whose boundary edges you wish preserved.

Note:

This will not preserve lines inside the components — only the outer boundary edge.

Clear All Edges

Removes all edges from the preservation list.

Save Preserved

Saves the preservation state, so that autocleanup and BatchMesher will know which lines must be preserved.

Reset Highlight

After clicking Show Preserved, use this button to remove the highlight from the preserved lines.

The lines remain preserved; only the visual highlighting effect is removed (until you click Show Preserved again).

OK

Accepts any changes you’ve made and closes the pop-up window.

Cancel

Discards any changes and closes the pop-up window.