Repairing Gaps and Faces

  1. Under Gaps between faces, click Attempt to Heal All to repair the reported gaps.

    Import Diagnostics checks for faulty faces, then tries to re-knit gaps. If that fails to completely repair the model, Import Diagnostics attempts to close gaps by creating new smaller faces and knitting them into place.

    The PropertyManager reports one gap and 19 faulty faces.

  2. Under Faulty faces, right-click a face and select Zoom to Selection to zoom to the face. Examine each face to verify if it makes sense with respect to the correct part geometry.
    Examination reveals that problems seem to exist around the area by the vent and screw holes and that Face<2> is a duplicate face. The model cannot be knitted together because the duplicate face causes invalid topology.
  3. Right-click Face<2> and select Delete Face.

    All faces now display a check mark , which indicates they are repaired. The message box reports that the last operation to heal a gap failed and that you can model a patch for the gap manually.

    The message box changes colors to indicate the number of errors remaining. Red indicates a high number, while green means that no errors remain.
  4. For each of the remaining gaps, right-click and select Heal gap.
  5. Click .
    Within Import Diagnostics, use these optional tools from the shortcut menu:
    • Gap Closer. Manually repair small gaps.
    • Repair Face. Select individual faces to repair. The Attempt to Heal All command is very order-dependent. You might need to assist it by repairing individual faces in a different order after you run Attempt to Heal All.

    For more information, see Import Diagnostics PropertyManager