{"id":904,"date":"2013-01-30T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks-Geometry-and-Mesh-Associativity\/ba-p\/335060"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:03:22","slug":"femap-tips-tricks-geometry-and-mesh-associativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/femap-tips-tricks-geometry-and-mesh-associativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips &#038; Tricks: Geometry and Mesh Associativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> you can import CAD and FEA models from a wide variety of sources allowing you to transfer modeling data over from other platforms. However, the independent import paths for the CAD and FEA models break any associativity there may have been between the model types previously which limits some modeling capabilities. In this video you can see how to restore associativity between CAD and FEA entities in Femap.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/demos\/index.shtml#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-206489%26title=Femap%20Tips%20and%20Tricks%20-%20Geometry%20Mesh%20Associativity%26docType=.flv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-14324\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2013\/01\/Tip19_GeomMeshAssociativity-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Femap Geometry and Mesh Associativity\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\"> Femap Geometry and Mesh Associativity<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><DIV class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><BR \/><P style=\"text-align: left\">Alastair<\/P><BR \/><P style=\"text-align: left\">Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/P><BR \/><BR \/><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Femap you can import CAD and FEA models from a wide variety of sources allowing you to transfer modeling data over from other platforms. However, the independent import paths for the CAD and FEA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-femap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}