Local Healing

Edges to Heal

Edges to Heal

Displays the list of edges to heal.

Parameters

Continuity

Defines the continuity: Point or Tangent.

Distance Objective

Defines the distance to be reached in respect with the point continuity, i.e. the maximum gap allowed between two healed elements.

Tangency Objective

• Available for a Tangent continuity.
• Defines the angle to be reached in respect with the tangency continuity, i.e. the maximum allowed tangency deviation allowed between healed elements.

Tip: Those two objectives can be deduced from an analysis, such as Checking Connections Between Surfaces.

Freeze

This tab lets you freeze elements, i.e. define elements that will not be modified. You can either select specific elements to freeze, or select automatically all planar elements or all canonical elements.

Elements to freeze

Lists the elements selected.

• These are elements that should not be affected by the healing operation.
• You cannot freeze edges to be joined. If you want to do so, you first need to freeze the faces.
• You can edit this list.

Freeze Planar elements

Freezes all planar elements found in the selection to be healed.

Note: This option is inactive on edges adjacent to surfaces that are not continuous.

Freeze Canonical elements

Freezes all canonical elements (including planar elements as they are canonical elements) found in the selection.

Note: This option is inactive on edges adjacent to surfaces that are not continuous.

Sharpness

Available for a Tangent continuity. Provided the Tangent continuity mode is active, Sharpness lets you retain sharp edges, by clicking the tab and selecting one or more edges.

Edges to Keep Sharp

Defines the sharp edges that must remain sharp. You can edit the list.

Sharpness Angle

Defines the maximum value of the angle below that an angle is considered as sharp. This can be useful when offsetting the resulting healed geometry for example.

Visualization

This tab enables you to better understand the discontinuities in the model and the results of the healing command and lets you define the way the messages are displayed on the healed element.

All

Displays all solutions.

Not corrected

Displays edges that are not corrected.

None

Displays nothing.

By default, both the symbols or and the information text are displayed on all edges.

Display information interactively

Only the symbols or that point on each edge processed are visible. The information text appears as you move the cursor over the symbol.

Display information sequentially

Indicates the rank and the total number of solutions in the counter below.

<< or >>

Displays the information on the previous or next edge (symbol and text).