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- Upskin and downskin analysis
- Standard analysis
- Center of gravity
- Wall thickness
- Shadow area
- Support volume
Upskin and downskin analysis
Upskins and downskins are triangles (and areas they comprise) that have their surface tilted against the X/Y plane by an angle up to a threshold given in degrees.
The completed analysis is both visualized and listed in text: The part itself is colored grey, upskins are green, and downskins are red, while the text result is provided in the context view, listing the angle, overall area and number of components.
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Analyze upskins, downskins |
0≤n≤89.9° |
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Minimum component size |
Technically valid upskins or downskins are ignored if they are up to this threshold in size. |
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Filter small triangles |
This filter includes any such small triangles that are tilted beyond the angles specified above but which are enclosed by an upskin or a downskin. |
Standard analysis
The standard analysis provides information on the position, size, volume and area of a selected part, as well as its number of points, triangles, edges and shells. It provides information about potential damage to the part by showing the number of holes, boundary edges, flipped triangles and bad edges, specifies the overall length of boundary edges and checks, and whether the part is closed and orientable. Thus, you can find out, if a part requires repair and which kind of repair it requires.
Additionally, the minimum, maximum and average value as well as the deviation are calculated and specified for edges per point, triangles per edge, triangle quality, and edge length.
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The standard analysis has no settings dialog. |
Center of gravity
This analysis provides information on the center of gravity. It lists its coordinates in X, Y, and Z against the model's full size.
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The center-of-gravity analysis has no settings dialog. |
Wall thickness
In the analysis of wall thickness you can check whether the part's wall meets your and your machine's requirements. First, specify the critical thickness. All results that are lower than this number are colored red and everything that is higher is colored green. Then can specify what percentage of the part may be smaller than the just described number. With the next two buttons, you can save and load your own standard settings. For example, if you need all your parts to have a wall thickness of at least 0.5 mm, type that value in the
Critical Wall thickness and 0.0 % in the
Critical Surface. Then press
Save as default to use those settings in future tests.
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Wall thickness threshold |
Walls thicker are colored green, thinner walls are colored red. |
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Surface threshold |
If more than this much of the part surface belongs to walls thinner than the threshold, the analysis stops searching. |
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Result color |
Colored highlighting of walls thickness |
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Load Settings, Save as default |
Save your settings for next time. |
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Cancel calculation as soon as test fails |
For large meshes the test can take a lot of time. This option aborts the search as soon as the first location with insufficient wall thickness is found.
Note: This can lead to not finding any and all remaining failing walls, producing necessarily incomplete results for the color highlighting, so use this only when a fast yes-no result is acceptable.
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Shadow area
This projects the volume of part onto the X/Y plane and produces its area.
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The shadow area analysis has no settings dialog. |
Support volume
The support volume analysis calculates the volume of support applied to a part.
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Threshold angle |
Equivalent to the critical angle to define the downskin. |
0≤n≤90° |
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Load Settings, Save as default |
Save your settings for next time. |