Repair Module Reference

Overview

When you enter the repair module, the context area displays 5 tabs:

The Status tab displays a number of properties about the part.

Status: Indicates whether the mesh is closed and oriented.
Statistics: Lists details about the number of edges, border edges, triangles, inverted orientation, shells, and holes on the part.
Highlighting: The highlighting section contains controls for making certain features of the part stand out more. Available features to highlight are holes, triangles, edges under a threshold angle, degenerate faces, and errors.

The Actions tab offers a few details about the part features and also presents several commands to help repair your part.

Close Holes: Reports the number of border edges and holes in the part. Provides functionality to quickly stitch triangles or remove trivial or all holes.
Flipped Triangles: Reports the number of triangles with an inverted orientation and provides functionality to quickly fix any flipped triangles.
Self-Intersections: Provides functionality to detect, split-off, or remove self-intersecting triangles.

Additional repair commands on the Actions tab include Remove Double Triangles, Remove Degenerate Faces, and Wrap Part Surface.

The Repair Scripts tab allows you to run, edit, create, and save repair scripts to quickly perform a series of repair operations to your part.

The Shells tab displays a number of properties about the shells that make up the part. Properties include:

The View tab provides a number of options to control the visualization of the part features and the selection of surfaces.

Part: Provides the ability to visualize textures or view the part transparently.
Show Slim Faces: Provides functionality to color or highlight edges of slim faces. You can adjust the threshold angle to define a slim face and show the status of the part for use in Optimization Utility.
Surface Selection: Defines the angle tolerance for selecting surfaces.

When you enter the repair module, the default zoom commands on the toolbar are changed. The commands available include:

Zoom to Part: The part is centered in the display and the zoom is such that the part fills the screen.
Zoom to Selected Triangles: The selection is centered in the display and the zoom is such that the selection fills the screen.
Zoom to Selected Area: Allows you to click and drag a window to define the area to zoom into.

In the you repair module, a new selection command is presented on the toolbar

Show information for selection: Shows details about the selection including the number of triangles selected, the total surface area of the selection, the surface area for the last triangle selected, and the border length for the last triangle selected.