Repair Surfaces
Use the Surface tool to find, review, and fix any geometric errors in the model's surfaces.
Closed Shells
Shows the surfaces which are closed but do not form solids. You can construct solid out of these surfaces.
Click on the guide bar to toggle options for detecting baffles and considering solid surfaces.
Free Edges
Shows free edges in the displayed surfaces.
Using the drop-down menu on the guide bar, you can choose to fix them by stitching edges, patching holes or gaps, or deleting those surfaces.
- If the free edges form a loop, use the Patch Hole option to fix them.
- If two edges are close by, the Stitch option will
stitch those edges to connect them. Enter an appropriate tolerance used
to stitch edges together.
You also have the option to only stitch open loops.
- If surface are floating, you can fix them by selecting the Delete option and removing the surfaces.
Non-Manifold Edges
Shows non-manifold edges (edges where more than two surfaces are connected) in the displayed surfaces. You can fix them in this tool by deleting the surfaces attached to non-manifold edges.
- Edges attached to baffles and interface surfaces are not considered here.
- If you do not want to delete the surfaces, you can isolate them and fix them using the Stitch Surfaces tool in the Edit tool group by collapsing points of non-manifold edges.
Self Intersections
Shows surfaces which have intersections within the surface or belong to one solid. You can fix them in this tool by deleting those surfaces. After deleting surfaces, you are left with free edges, which you can repair using the Free edges check.
Sliver Surfaces
Shows surfaces which have regions that are narrower than a defined threshold.
To define the threshold value, click on the guide bar. The default tolerance is based on the geometric tolerance defined in the Preferences dialog. You can reduce the value in this tool if you wish to retain some valid sliver surfaces.
You can fix slivers by collapsing the edges or suppressing the edges. If Suppress Only is turned on, it will provide you the option to suppress individual edges of sliver surfaces. If you click Fix All, it will suppress all sliver surface edges which are below a 60 degree angle. The rest of the edges you need to manually suppress.
Surface Tool
An overview of the Surface tool.
Use the Surface tool to find, review, and fix any geometric errors in the model's surfaces.
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