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• Choose Mesh->Generate mesh.
• A window comes up in which to enter the desired edge element size of the mesh to be generated. Set a big size of 10 units to have a coarse mesh and click OK.

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• A window appears showing how the meshing is progressing. Once the process is finished it show information about the mesh that has been generated. Click View mesh to visualize the resulting mesh. (note that the number of nodes and elements may vary slightly depending on the version of GiD used).

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• Use the Mesh->View mesh boundary option to see only the contour of the volumes meshed without the interiors. This visualization mode may be combined with the various rendering methods.
• A window appears asking if we want to maintain this visualization mode. Click No. To exit the mesh boundary visualization mode press ESC.

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• Visualize the mesh generated with the various rendering options in the Render menu, located in the mouse menu.

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•  Choose View->Mode->Geometry to return to the visualization of the geometric model.

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