Imprint Lines or Surfaces on Midsurfaces

Use the Midsurfaces: Pocket Imprint tool to imprint pockets, fillets, and other geometry features from the source geometry onto the midsurfaces.

Imprinting makes midsurface thickness calculations more accurate by creating mesh boundaries that match the feature boundaries on the original solid, and improves the meshing quality by capturing the features of the solid model.

  1. From the Geometry ribbon, click the Midsurfaces > Pocket Imprint tool.


    Figure 1.
  2. Optional: On the guide bar, click to define imprint options.
  3. Select Lines or Surfaces from the Source selector.
  4. Select lines/surfaces.
    You are not required to select the midsurface. HyperWorks automatically recognizes the midsurface corresponding to the solid/surface component from which it was derived and imprints the lines/surfaces on the midsurface component.
  5. Optional: To manually select target surfaces, change the Target surfaces selection option to Manual, activate the Target selector on the guide bar, then select make your selection.
  6. Imprint lines/surfaces.
    • Click Imprint on the guide bar.
    • Left-click on selected lines/surfaces


Figure 2.

Midsurfaces: Pocket Imprint Options

An overview of the Midsurfaces: Pocket Imprint tool.



Figure 3.

Use the Midsurfaces: Pocket Imprint tool to imprint pockets, fillets, and other geometry features from the source geometry onto the midsurfaces.

Access
Go to Geometry > Midsurfaces > Pocket Imprint.

Options

Target surfaces selection
Select a target selection option.
Line extension method
Select a line extension option.
Keep line endpoints
Keep line endpoints when extending lines.
Surface imprint method
Select which lines to imprint.
Do not imprint internal edges
Skip internal edges and common edges of selected surfaces.
Do not imprint near existing edges
Skip edges too close to pre-existing features.
Minimum gap detection
Select the minimal allowed gap size.
Minimum gap size
If the distance between imprinted and pre-existing lines is smaller than this value, then the edge is skipped during imprinting.