Force points to

The 'Force points to' option forces the selected points to belong to the surface or volume mesh, even though they do not necessarily belong to the surface or the volume topologically. By default no point is forced to any surface or volume mesh.


Model of a surface and a line, with no topological relationship. Surface and line are isolated.

Mesh of the model assigning to one point of the isolated line the 'Force' option to the surface. It can be seen that the final surface mesh contains the node corresponding to the point set.