Topology Protection control allows you to instruct the mesher to retain edges in the selected scope without defeaturing. In some cases, the mesher ignores certain topology edges to improve blocking. Defining these edges in the Topology Protection scope restricts the mesher from performing defeaturing.
Topology Protection Details view has the following options:
General
Control Type: Displays the selected control type.
Scope
Define By: Allows you to define the input to the selected control. The available options are Value and Outcome.
Value: Allows you to set manually the value of the Scoping Method and Scoping Pattern.
Outcome: Allows you to select the existing scoped outcomes from the previous steps as input.
Scoping Method: Allows you to select the entities for the selected control. The available options are:
Part: Allows you to select parts for defining the scope of the control.
Label: Allows you to select labels for defining the scope of the control.
Zone: Allows you to select zones for defining the scope of the control.
Scoping Pattern: Allows you to specify the name pattern to get the selected Scoping Method. Scoping Pattern supports Regular Expression. You can click
on the right corner of the option and the
following options are available:Publish: Publishes Scoping Pattern to the Property Worksheet.
Scope All: Inserts '.*' regular expression to scope all entities.
Definition
Protect Boundaries Only: Allows you to protect the boundaries of the scoped entities when Protect Boundaries Only set to Yes.