Segment Mesh Enhancements

The Segment Mesh command recognizes additional face types and has an improved user interface.

Additional Face Types Recognized

When you segment meshes, the software can recognize faces that are conical or spherical, in addition to planes and cylinders. You can convert these recognized faces to standard BREP faces with the same geometric condition.

Improved User Interface

In the Segment Mesh PropertyManager, under Segmenting, the Facet Shape tool is available. This tool creates segments by grouping adjacent facets based on the shape difference, which typically indicates a boundary between two regions in the model used to create the mesh file.

Under Options, select Show Preview to preview the edges for segmented faces, shown as yellow. Under Perimeter, drag to adjust the value to refine the segmentation of faces.

When you run the Segment Imported Mesh Body command, improved graphical information helps you understand which faces have been recognized.

If you have not previously segmented the model, the display of mesh BREP bodies and hybrid mesh bodies does not change.

  • Standard BREP and graphics bodies are optionally hidden.
  • Selected faces are highlighted using the Selected Item 1 color specified in Tools > Options > System Options > Colors > Color scheme settings.

After the first round of segmenting the model, the following display changes apply:

  • A legend appears to explain the colors used for recognized and unrecognized faces.

  • The software uses the Recognized mesh face and Unrecognized mesh face colors specified in Tools > Options > System Options > Colors > Color scheme settings.