Thanks all for the responses.
Yes I work in Rhino, which is less anal about tolerances than other CAD software, though you I can dial up the tolerance before export.
Above was just a simple example, I am wanting to do FEA on entire yacht structures…
yes I am aware of merge nodes, this does seem to work, provided the number of nodes along edges are very closely matched.
Is there a way to select edges before meshing, to inform the mesher that these need to be joined, or at least have the same num…