Rectangle

This feature creates a rectangle respresented as a mesh composed of triangular elements:

• Direction (required): Users can select between pre-defined directions (X, Y or Z) or a custom direction for the normal to the rectangle .

• Normal (required): normal vector to the surface of the rectangle (only applicable for custom direction).

• Origin (required): reference point that corresponds to the corner defining the local origin of the rectangle.

• Length (required): size of the rectangle along the axis that follows the selected normal direction.

• Width (required): size of the rectangle along the axis that follows the direction for the length.

  Element Size (required): target length of the edges of the triangular elements of the rectangle.

Figure 24 - Create a Rectangle window

Cheatsheet for length, width and height directions

Direction	Length	Width
X	Y-axis	Z-axis
Y	Z-axis	X-axis
Z	X-axis	Y-axis