The information in this section will help you join two edges
topologically. More Operating Mode information is available in the Local Join Basic Task. |
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The options selected and the numerical values entered in the dialog box are modal within the session. | ||
ElementsLists the elements selected for local join. You can edit the list of elements to be joined:
Options
As soon as at least two edges have been selected, Local
Join tries to find the distance between these edges at which the two edges could be considered as joined.
Note that this distance computation is only possible for
edges within a reasonable distance. Starts only a local join and gives access to the Join Parameters with the Join Option Definition dialog box. Starts a local join and a healing, and gives access to the Heal parameters. Start both a local join with the Join Merging Distance
criterion and Sets the tolerance at which two elements are considered as being only one for a Join. It is equivalent to the Merging distance in the Join Parameters. When you modify one, the other is updated. Sets the tolerance at which two elements are considered as being only one for a Healing. Only the Parameters tab is available. Finds out whether the elements to be joined are connex. If they are not, and the check box is selected, an error message is issued indicating the number of connex domains in the resulting join. Lets the system ignore elements that would not allow the join to be created. Select this check box to keep the elements that are smaller than the Join merging distance. This can be useful when you relax the tolerance: some gaps are hidden but the geometry still has gaps and may be unusable for later processing. This parameter allows maintaining topology matched to geometry. Allows the system to automatically reduce the number of elements in the resulting join whenever possible. Sets the tolerance at which two elements are considered as
being only one. Specifies the angle value below which the elements are to be joined. If the angle value on the edge between two elements is greater than the Angular Threshold value, the elements are not joined. An error message appears. This is particularly useful to avoid joining overlapping elements. You can either
Heal Parameters
This tab lets you freeze elements, i.e. define elements that will not be modified. By default, no element is frozen. You can either select specific elements to freeze, or select automatically all planar elements or all canonical elements:
Sharpness is available for a Tangent continuity. Provided the Tangent continuity mode is active, you can retain sharp edges, by clicking the Sharpness tab, and selecting one or more edges. List the sharp edges that must remain sharp. You can edit the list as described above for Elements. Allows to redefine the limit between a sharp angle and a flat angle (the
maximum value). This can be useful when offsetting the resulting healed
geometry for example. Visualization
The Visualization tab enables you to better understand the discontinuities in the model and the results of the join/healing action.
For a Join/Heal or an Automatic Join/Heal action, you can highlight:
After Apply, the number of elements found in each category
appears in the dialog box. Double-click the color patch to change this color in the color editor.
DisplayDisplays information on errors (gaps greater than the tolerance) found on
the output elements, Displays information on errors (gaps greater than the tolerance) found on
the input elements. Errors are highlighted with a marker, but the textual information appears as you move the cursor over the edges. In this case, the counter below indicates the rank and the total number
of errors. |