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The Associate action causes a geometric entity to become embedded on another geometric entity. Surfaces with associated geometry will not get trimmed (i.e., a four sided iso parametric patch will remain so even after associations are made to the patch).
Associations allow the mesher to create nodes on or along the associated geometry.
Loads or boundary conditions may be applied to associated geometries.
Mesh seeds can be placed on the associated geometry.
The nodes lying on the associated geometry have the associated geometry as topological associations (i.e., nodes that lie on a curve associated to a surface will have their topological associations to the curve rather than with the surface).
Associations are marked by filled blue triangles for points and filled yellow triangles for curves.
Table 10‑1 Geometry Associate Action Objects and DescriptionsObject | Method | Description |
| Curve | Associate point to a curve. |
| Surface | Associate point to a surface. |
| Curve | Associate curve to a curve. |
| Surface | Associate curve to a surface. |
Important: | The iso-mesher will not generate meshes that conform to hard geometries, if the hard geometries lie interior to the surface. The iso-mesher ignores the interior hard geometries to mesh the surface. |
Associating Point Object
Figure 10‑1
Figure 10‑2
Associating Curve Object
Figure 10‑3
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