Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition

To Reverse the Direction of Mesh Element Normals

  1. Select the Change Mesh Normal tool ( Modeling > Mesh > Mesh Utilities ).

  2. Select the options Face Plane Normal, Vertex Order and Reverse Vertex Order around all facets.
  3. Select the mesh element.

    The mesh highlights, with graphics displaying the current normal of each facet.

  4. Click the Change icon.

  5. Enter a data point.

    These graphical normals are scaled by facet size. If the mesh has attached normals (for example, from the Facet Smoothing tool), these normals are displayed, one at each corner of each mesh facet.