Finding Regions to Repair

You can use visualization options to find regions in your model that need to be repaired or idealized prior to meshing.

This task shows you how to:

Detect Slivers

You can use wall thickness analysis to detect thin slivers in a solid that can lead to meshing issues like element interference.

  1. Display the Wall Thickness Analysis dialog box, as described in Analyzing Wall Thicknesses.
  2. From the Inputs tab, select a computation Method of Ray.
  3. From the Options tab, select to restrict the display to values below the maximum threshold value (the thinnest values).
  4. Select a value for the Transparency that allows you to see the highlighted thin regions through the model.
  5. From the Colors tab, enter a Number of 2.
  6. Enter a Minimum value of 0 for the first color, and enter the maximum threshold value for the second color.
  7. In addition, you should choose Shading for the render style, to prevent the display of edges.

Detect Free Edges

You can highlight surface boundaries to detect free edges that need to be stitched.

  1. In the top bar, select Me > Preferences.
  2. From the Preferences dialog box that appears, select Display > Visualization.
  3. Select Surface boundary.
  4. Select the color and the width of the lines that will represent free edges.
  5. Click OK to apply your setting and to close the dialog box.