Setting the Healing Options
The Healing Options let you control how healing proceeds with respect to a variety of features and issues.
- Click Modeler > Model Preparation > Heal to open the Healing Options dialog box. You can also open the Healing Options dialog box from the Model Analysis dialog box via the Objects tab drop-down menu.
The Healing Options dialog box contains three tabs:
- Healing Options
- Feature Removal Options
- Properties, which lists the geometric properties of the currently selected object.
- Select the Healing Options tab to specify the following:
- Heal Type as: Auto Heal (default), Manual Heal, or No Heal.
Selecting Manual Heal enables the Manual Heal Options:
- Perform Tolerant Stitching check box.
This enables a field for the Stitch Tolerance value, and a check box to Stop After First Error.
- Perform Geometry Simplification
This enables fields for Simplification Tolerance and Maximum Generated Radius values.
You can also select radio buttons to Simplify Curves, Surfaces, or Both.
- Tighten Gaps settings.
A check box to select Perform Tighten Gaps
A field to specify Tighten Gaps Within a given value in mm.
- Select the Feature Removal Options tab to specify the following:
Here you can specify the following Feature Removal Options.
- Remove Holes check box and Maximum Radius value.
- Remove Chamfers check box and Maximum Width value.
- Remove Blends check box and Maximum Radius value.
You can specify the following Remove Small Entity Options:
- Small Edges, Length Less Than, less than a specified value.
- Small Faces Area e Less Than, less than a specified area.
- Sliver Face Width Less Than, less than either:
- Object Bounding box Scale Factor, less than a specified scale factor
- Sliver Edge Width, less than a specified value.
Sliver faces have a maximum distance among the long edges that is smaller than the specified tolerance and have at least one short edge and at most three long edges. A short edge has a length less than the specified tolerance. A long edge has a length greater than the specified tolerance. You can give the tolerance as a absolute value or a factor of the bounding box containing the face.
You can Control Object Properties Change according to the following settings:
- Allowable Change in Surface Area check box, and percent value.
- Allowable Change in Volume check box, and percent value.
- Select the Properties tab to view the geometric properties of the currently selected object.
- Click OK to apply the specified Healing options and to open the Analysis dialog box.