Shared Topology - Examples

Ansys meshes two blocks with shared topology. The blue block will gain a new imprinted face which will be shared between the green and blue blocks. Notice how the nodes of the mesh line up along the bottom of the smaller block.

Ansys creates separate meshes for two parts because they are in different components and the root part has Shared Topology set to None.

The mesh for shared topology is not the same as merged geometry. Here the boxes are merged, and you can see that the mesh is different than it is for two bodies with shared topology.