To start Ansys Polyfuse, select the Combine mesh files menu item in the top-level Ansys Polydata menu. (You need not read the mesh files first; you will read them directly into Ansys Polyfuse.) The Ansys Polyfuse window (Figure 7.4: The Ansys Polyfuse Window) will open.

  Combine mesh files

There are two other ways to launch Ansys Polyfuse: you can start Ansys Polyfuse from Ansys Polyman, as described in Starting the Programs; and you can start Polyfuse from a Polyflow component system in Ansys Workbench (via the context menu that is opened by right-clicking the Setup cell), as described in the separate Ansys Polyflow in Ansys Workbench User's Guide.

Figure 7.4: The Ansys Polyfuse Window

There are three main components of the Ansys Polyfuse window:

Note that an object is either a mesh or a scaling, translation, or rotation operation applied to a mesh.