You can use the Segment Imported Mesh
Body tool to group facets of a mesh BREP body into faces bounded by sharp
corners, planar faces, and cylindrical
faces.
The
Segment Imported Mesh Body
tool identifies:
- Groups of facets that form planar or cylindrical faces.
- Faces that are separated by a sharp angle or crease angle.
- Planar faces in a mesh BREP body so that you can use them as
sketch planes, extrude references, and in other models with planar
references.
- Faces based on the shape difference
between
adjacent
facets, where
adjacent facets within a face are more similar than adjacent facets from other
faces.
This tool is most useful for CAD files that you export to mesh and then
import into the SOLIDWORKS software and convert to mesh BREP bodies. Although the tool
can work with scanned files and bodies with mesh-based sculpting and artistic geometry,
these often have very irregular geometry that the software cannot segment.
When you import a mesh file and convert it into a mesh BREP body, each
body is represented by a single face. The facets are not grouped or segmented into
groups of facets that form faces.
Converting a mesh body to
segmented
mesh BREP is not like converting standard SOLIDWORKS BREP to mesh
BREP, where face definition in the standard SOLIDWORKS BREP is preserved in the mesh
BREP.