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 41.5.1.
Edit node. For more information, see “Editing nodes,” Section 41.5.2.
Delete node. For more information, see “Deleting nodes,” Section 41.5.3.
Merge nodes. For more information, see “Merging nodes,” Section 41.5.4.
Adjust midside nodes. For more information, see “Adjusting the position of midside nodes,” Section 41.5.5.
Element editing tools
The following tools are available for editing elements:
Create element. For more information, see “Creating an element,” Section 41.6.1.
Delete element. For more information, see “Deleting elements,” Section 41.6.2.
Flip normal. For more information, see “Reversing the surface normal direction of shell elements,” Section 41.6.3.
Orient stack direction. For more information, see “Orienting the stack direction,” Section 41.6.4.
Collapse edge. For more information, see “Collapsing short edges of a linear, triangular orphan mesh,” Section 41.7.4.
Split edge. For more information, see “Splitting an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 41.6.6.
Swap diagonal. For more information, see “Swapping the diagonal of a pair of adjacent triangular elements,” Section 41.6.7.
Split. For more information, see “Splitting a quadrilateral element,” Section 41.6.8.
Combine. For more information, see “Combining triangular elements,” Section 41.6.9.
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 41.7.1.
Offset shell. For more information, see “Generating layers of shell elements offset from an existing mesh,” Section 41.7.2.
Collapse. For more information, see “Collapsing an edge of a quadrilateral or triangular element,” Section 41.6.5.
Convert. For more information, see “Converting a triangular shell mesh to a solid tetrahedral mesh,” Section 41.7.5.
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 41.9.