This section describes how you can use the Edit Mesh toolset to edit the elements that comprise orphan meshes and Abaqus/CAE native meshes. The following topics are covered:

• “Creating an element,” Section 64.6.1

• “Deleting elements,” Section 64.6.2

• “Reversing the surface normal direction of shell elements,” Section 64.6.3

• “Orienting the stack direction,” Section 64.6.4

• “Collapsing an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 64.6.5

• “Splitting an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 64.6.6

• “Swapping the diagonal of a pair of adjacent triangular elements,” Section 64.6.7

• “Splitting quadrilateral elements,” Section 64.6.8

• “Combining triangular elements,” Section 64.6.9

• “Renumbering elements,” Section 64.6.10

• “Selecting the elements to edit,” Section 64.6.11