4.26. Transforming the Volume Mesh

After you have created a volume mesh, you can add the Transform Volume Mesh task to your workflow. This task allows you to create and apply translational or rotational transformations to your volumetric mesh.

  1. Provide a Name, or use the default name.

  2. Select the Type of transformation: either Translational or Rotational. The default name changes upon the selected type (translate_copy_1 for translational transformations, or rotate_copy_1 for rotational transformations).

  3. Select a mesh object from the list.

    Select items in the list, or use the Filter Text option in the drop-down to provide text and/or regular expressions in filtering the list (for example, using *, ?, and []). You can also choose the Use Wildcard option in the drop-down to provide wildcard expressions in filtering the list. When you use either ? or * in your expression, the matching list item(s) are automatically selected in the list. Use ^, |, and & in your expression to indicate boolean operations for NOT, OR, and AND, respectively. See Filtering Lists and Using Wildcards for more information.

  4. For Translational transformations, specify values for the Translational Shift in the X, Y, and Z directions.

  5. For Rotational transformations, specify values for the Angle as well as the Rotation Axis Origin and Rotation Axis Direction in the X, Y, and Z directions.

  6. For the Create a Copy and Translate? prompt:

    • Choose yes if you want to make a copy of the volume mesh and apply the transformation to the copy. If this option is selected, you can make the appropriate selection for the Number of Copies? prompt.

    • Choose no, only translate to apply the volume mesh transformation directly to the original volume mesh.

  7. Click Preview Transformation to see a preview of what the volume mesh transformation will look like in the graphics window.

  8. Click Transform Mesh. The transformed mesh will appear in the graphics window.

    If you need to make adjustments to any of your settings in this task, click Revert and Edit, make your changes and click Update, or click Cancel to cancel your changes.