Checking and Repairing a Model

You can check the quality and repair some pathologies of a model from another system.

  1. From the Analysis section of the action bar, click Check and Repair .
  2. Select a surface or a body to analyze.

    Note: Set of faces are not supported, unless you join them. The join can have non-manifold issues, gaps, or orientation issues.

  3. Key in the values of the geometric criteria.
    • Max Distance: Only gaps below this distance are taken into account.
    • Max Size: Only faces under this size are considered as small.
    • Max Length: Only edges under this length are considered as small.
  4. Specify the maximum deformation distance allowed during repair.
  5. Optional: Select the Frozen canonics check box to freeze canonic surfaces and planes during repair.
  6. Click Apply.
    The dialog box is updated with the detected pathologies or controls, such as:
    • Gaps
    • Small Faces
    • Small Edges
    • Selt Intersection Faces
    • Duplicated Faces
    • Embedded Faces
    • Non Manifold Edges
    • Boundaries
  7. Click a pathology.
    The pathology elements are displayed with
    • Edges and distances for gaps
    • Groups of faces for duplicated and embedded faces. Check and Repair removes either the duplicated face or the face embedded inside another.
    • Non-Manifold edges or boundaries.
  8. Click a list element to reframe on it in the 3D area.
    1. Show/Hide them as required.
    2. Select the Ghost mode for an easier visualization.
  9. Click Max Deformation Distance to analyze the distance between the repaired and the input model.
  10. In the 3D area, select a face that creates a defect.
    1. Use the context toolbar to remove it.
    The list of pathologies is updated accordingly.
  11. Select the corresponding Repair check boxes and click Apply to repair the pathologies.
    Check and Repair repairs pathologies whenever possible. Remaining pathologies are displayed.

    Repaired features are aggregated under the current geometrical set.

    • If the input was a surface, the repaired feature is a surface.
    • If the input was a solid, the repaired feature is a solid, or a surface in the case of partial repair.