In the Input parameters section of the dialog, choose whether to set a planar or angular tolerance and whether to create the regions from an STL format or a mesh.
In the Selection option section of the dialog, choose which part surface properties you would like to assign to the region.
Use the Regions from Mesh/STL command to consolidate all elements from a Midplane or Dual-Domain mesh, or from a model's STL representation, into a single editable region.
Dialog elements
- Tolerance
- When creating a region, you can choose to set the tolerance using planar, or angular. Planar allows you to check the distance from the triangle centroid to the seed triangle plane, whereas angular checks the bend angle between the normal vector of a triangle plane.
- Planar
- This is the tolerance used to check the distance from the triangle centroid to the seed triangle plane when creating a region. The triangle to be checked will not be placed in same region as the seed triangle unless the distance is less than the specified tolerance.
- Angular
- The tolerance used to check the bend angle between the normal vector of a triangle plane with the normal vector of the seed triangle plane when creating a region. The triangle to be checked will not be placed in the same region as the seed triangle unless the bend angle is less than the specified tolerance.
- Create from
- Allows you to create regions from an STL format, or Midplane or Dual Domain model that already has a mesh.
- STL
- Allows you to create regions on your model from STL format. Once you have done so, the new region appears as a new layer in the Layers pane and can be assigned property attributes, such as a new thickness.
- Mesh
- Allows you to create regions on your model from a model which already has a mesh. Once you have done so, the new region appears as a new layer in the Layers pane and can be assigned property attributes, such as a new thickness.