Imprinting circular edges on a face

Video: Prepare a hole for a spider mesh using Circular Imprint

Use the Circular Imprint command to create a circular edge around a selected:

• point

• circular or elliptical edge

With Circular Imprint, you first select the face to imprint and then specify the point or hole around which you want to create the new circular polygon edge. You can specify an absolute diameter for the imprinted circle, or you can have the software size the circular imprint relative to a specified scale factor. When you click OK in the Circular Imprint dialog box, the software subdivides the selected face and creates the new circular edge.

In the example below, (A) shows a hole in a previously meshed surface. (B) shows the updated mesh once a circular imprint has been created around the hole.

Use Circular Imprint to control the distribution of elements around holes in your model. Circular Imprint is particularly useful when you use the new Bolt Connection command to model bolts as finite element entities. For example, you can use Circular Imprint to create circular edges around the bolt holes in the in the contact surfaces (at the bolt's head, nut, or junction plane). By imprinting an additional circle around the ends of the bolt hole, you ensure that the legs of the spider elements created at the bolt's head and nut have sufficient nodes in the surrounding mesh to which to connect.

Where do I find it?

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A FEM file active
Command Finder	Circular Imprint
Menu	Model Cleanup→Circular Imprint

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