This section is an overview of the tools that are available in the Edit Mesh toolset. You can access the tools from the main menu bar by selecting Mesh
Edit. Abaqus/CAE displays the Edit Mesh dialog box. You can also display the Edit Mesh dialog box using the 
tool, located at the bottom of the Mesh module toolbox.
Node editing tools
The following tools are available for editing nodes:
Create node. For more information, see “Creating a node,” Section 63.5.1.
Edit node. For more information, see “Editing the position of selected nodes,” Section 63.5.2.
Project nodes. For more information, see “Projecting nodes,” Section 63.5.3.
Delete node. For more information, see “Deleting nodes,” Section 63.5.4.
Merge nodes. For more information, see “Merging nodes,” Section 63.5.5.
Adjust midside nodes. For more information, see “Adjusting the position of midside nodes,” Section 63.5.6.
Renumber nodes. For more information, see “Renumbering nodes,” Section 63.5.7.
Element editing tools
The following tools are available for editing elements:
Create element. For more information, see “Creating an element,” Section 63.6.1.
Delete element. For more information, see “Deleting elements,” Section 63.6.2.
Flip normal. For more information, see “Reversing the surface normal direction of shell elements,” Section 63.6.3.
Orient stack direction. For more information, see “Orienting the stack direction,” Section 63.6.4.
Collapse edge. For more information, see “Collapsing an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 63.6.5.
Split edge. For more information, see “Splitting an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 63.6.6.
Swap diagonal. For more information, see “Swapping the diagonal of a pair of adjacent triangular elements,” Section 63.6.7.
Split. For more information, see “Splitting quadrilateral elements,” Section 63.6.8.
Combine. For more information, see “Combining triangular elements,” Section 63.6.9.
Renumber elements. For more information, see “Renumbering elements,” Section 63.6.10.
Mesh editing tools
The following tools are available for editing the entire mesh:
Offset solid. For more information, see “Generating layers of solid elements offset from an existing mesh,” Section 63.7.1.
Offset shell. For more information, see “Generating layers of shell elements offset from an existing mesh,” Section 63.7.2.
Collapse. For more information, see “Wrapping a mesh about the Z-axis,” Section 63.7.3.
Clean. For more information, see “Collapsing short edges of a linear, triangular orphan mesh,” Section 63.7.4.
Convert. For more information, see “Converting a triangular shell mesh to a solid tetrahedral mesh,” Section 63.7.5, and “Converting a solid orphan mesh to a shell orphan mesh,” Section 63.7.6.
Mesh refinement tools
The following tools are available for refining the mesh:
Set size.
Remove size.
Remesh.
Undo and redo for mesh edits
You can undo and redo multiple changes that you make using the tools in the Edit Mesh toolset, and control the number of available undo levels. For more information, see “Undoing or redoing a change in the Edit Mesh toolset,” Section 63.9.