Description: When you select edges to create a wire-from-edge feature, Abaqus/CAE removes the adjoining faces and creates a wire feature to replace all edges of the removed faces. In addition, Abaqus/CAE makes any other changes necessary to retain the validity of the remaining geometry, such as converting solids to shells.

For example, if you select two disconnected edges from a solid box, the resulting model contains two shell faces and a wire feature that completes the original shape of the box, as shown Figure 4–11. Each of the selected edges was associated with two faces, so Abaqus/CAE removes those faces and converts the solid to a shell. The selected edges, and all the other edges that are no longer associated with faces, make up the new wire feature.

Part module:
    ShapeWireFrom Edge