Merge

Structural Design User Guide

Panels Tools : Merge

Any number of PANE elements may be merged regardless of their thickness or justification as long as they are coplanar and at least one adjacent loop is coincident.

From the main menu tool bar, select Modify > Merge the user is prompted to ‘Pick Panel/Section or end of first Gensec to merge:’.

The first panel to be picked is the dominant panel, that is the panel that all other picked panels are merged into and whose attributes the merged panels inherit.

On picking the first panel the user is prompted ‘Pick panel to merge or <Esc> to finish:’. The rest of the panels to be merged may be picked from the 3D view.

Press Esc to terminate the picking process.

If one or more of the picked panels are not coplanar, an error message is displayed.

If Esc is pressed before at least one panel to merge has been picked, an error message is displayed.

Click OK on either of these abandons the merge process.

If all picked panels are coplanar a merge confirmation message is displayed. The panels to be merged are highlighted in the 3D view.

Click Yes to merge the highlighted panels, or click No to abandon the merge.

The merged panels have the database Reference No. of the panel picked first (the dominant panel).

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