Fuse Open Shells

Use the Fuse: Open Shells tool to automatically connect open shells to resolve penetrations/intersections, or prepare a BIW model for an electromagnetic analysis.

  1. From the Elements ribbon, Edit tools, click Fuse > Open Shells.


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  2. Optional: On the guide bar, click to define fuse options.
  3. Activate the Source selector on the guide bar, choose Components or Elements, then select source entities.
    Source entities will move to the target.
  4. Activate the Target selector on the guide bar, choose Components or Elements, then select target entities.
    Target entities will not move.
  5. Click Fuse all on the guide bar.


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Fuse: Open Shells Tool

An overview of the Fuse: Open Shells tool.



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Use the Fuse: Open Shells tool to automatically connect open shells to resolve penetrations/intersections, or prepare a BIW model for an electromagnetic analysis.

Access
Go to Elements > > Fuse > Open Shells.

Options

Fuse threshold
Change fuse threshold.
Remesh at connection
Consider remesh at connection.
Remove redundant patches
Consider removing redundant patches.
Redundant patch maximum width factor
Change the redundant patch maximum width factor of fuse threshold value.
Snap to features
Consider snapping to features.
Feature snapping tolerance factor
Change feature snapping tolerance factor of fuse threshold value, within which the nodes positions resulting after the fusing of source and target elements can be snapped to features.
Feature angle
The maximum allowable break angle between adjacent elements.
Fuse free edges only
Fuse only free edges of the selected source and target.
Bridge gaps
Consider creating bridge elements between source and target.
Projection type
Select a type of projection from source to target.
Along source normal
Shortest direction of projection of source nodes to target nodes is considered.
Along source edge tangent
Considers the tangential direction of source edges to the target. However, if the tangential projection fails, the shortest projection is considered.
Remove target tails
Consider to delete tails or small faces formed at the target after fusing source to target.
Remove target tails tolerance factor
Change the tolerance factor of fuse threshold value within which, if the width of the tail of the target tail face lies, it is removed.