node merging/deleting in input file

[musketeer89]

All,

Any idea how to merge/delete nodes when writing an input file ??? In CAE you can merge the coincident nodes but that is before the input file is even written. I could not find any *MERGE or *DELETE options in the Reference manual. I end up with 4 coincident nodes at at least two corners during a painstaking node numbering process.

Thanks,

Kshitij Shrotri, Ph.D
Aeropspace Engineering, Georgia Tech

[george jefferson]

You can leave them alone and use *MPC,TIE
alternately manually delete them and fix the element definitions that
reference the deleted nodes.

Either way you need to take care with boundary conditions, but for just a
handful of nodes its not too bad.

Post by musketeer89
All,
Any idea how to merge/delete nodes when writing an input file ??? In CAE
you can merge the coincident nodes but that is before the input file is even
written. I could not find any *MERGE or *DELETE options in the Reference
manual. I end up with 4 coincident nodes at at least two corners during a
painstaking node numbering process.
Thanks,
Kshitij Shrotri, Ph.D
Aeropspace Engineering, Georgia Tech

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