In many types of analysis, multiple parts are used to distinguish between various components or material types. To the extent allowed by the particular data format, EnSight maintains this distinction by assigning these entities to separate model parts. In many cases however, this distinction is no longer useful for postprocessing. When manipulating parts, you often need to apply the same set of to all of them. If the number of parts to be treated identically is large, this process can become unwieldy. EnSight provides a merge operator to combine multiple parts into a single part.

The merge operation creates one new part from one or more selected parent parts. The original parts are unchanged. If only a single part is selected for the operation, merge will create a true copy of the part (as opposed to the shallow copy that the Copy operation creates), with the only dependence being that the parent must exist.

If you delete any of the original parts after the merge, these components will be deleted from the merged part as well.