Where applicable, the respective analysis dialog provides settings management.
Jump to:
- 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 continuous surface 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 to safe angles but which are enclosed by an upskin or a downskin. |
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 bounding box.
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The center-of-gravity analysis has no settings dialog. |
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 whether the part is closed and orientable.
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. |
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° |
Wall thickness
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Walls thicker are colored green, thinner walls are colored red. |
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If more than this much of the part surface belongs to walls thinner than the threshold, the analysis registers the test as failed. |
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| Result color |
Colored highlighting of walls thickness |
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| Cancel calculation as soon as test fails, Simple mode |
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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| Generate mesh with analysis results when closing |
Closing the wall thickness analysis in the project tree spawns a part with the color gradient applied as triangle coloring |