Clean Tools: Geometry

Description

Detects and addresses common geometry issues such as duplicate geometry faces, sliver faces and unconnected edges.

Allows for selective or global cleaning of geometry.

Settings tab

SELECTION

Act on...

Scope of the cleaning operation.

Whole model

Considers the entire model, including unselected and hidden entities.
Selected only

Considers only the selected and visible entities.

Duplicate faces

Specifies how to handle overlapping geometry faces.

Leave all faces

All overlapping faces are kept.
Leave one face

All but one face are deleted from a set of overlapping faces.
Delete all faces

All faces in a set of overlapping faces are deleted.

Act on free edges only

If set, only free edges are considered during the zipping process.

Free edges are geometry edges that are used by only one face.

Clean groups independently

If set, geometry faces in groups are separately cleaned without influence from faces in different groups, even if they are within tolerance or connected.

Press the Esc key to abort the clean operation between groups.

TOLERANCES

Edge Merging Angle

If the angle between two edges meeting at a vertex is greater than the specified value, the vertex is removed and the two edges are merged into a single edge.

Setting an angle of 180 degrees means that only vertices where the edges meet perfectly tangentially will be removed.

Minimum Feature Length

Minimum distance between vertices and edges, below which they are zipped together.

Edge lengths shorter than this distance are deleted.

Absolute

Minimum feature length is defined in the length units of the model.
Relative

Minimum feature length is defined as a fraction of the nominal size of model.

Nominal size refers to the largest dimension of a View: Bounding Box that fully encloses the model. The bounding box is parallel to the global Cartesian axes.

Statistics tab

A summary of geometry statistics.

Information include geometry totals, shortest and largest lengths, etc.

Messages tab

A summary of the cleaning process and outcome.

Information includes number of faces deleted, warning messages, etc.