import features, complete surfaces and solidify

[brianlynn]

I have a import feature that someone else imported, that I now need to
heal and create a solid from. I changed the quilt geometry system color
from magenta to yellow for the outside quilt geometry, if I have that
backwards don't worry about it, I play with the colors until the majority
of the quilt is magenta (default) and the holes in the quilt are yellow.
then I found all the goofy geometry that imported and deleted the surfaces
from the import feature, once that was done I made a copy of the entire
import, hid the import feature and then started replacing the missing
geometry. From what I see the model looks completely healed, but solidify
is still not active, is there a tool for finding these gaps, that
obviously I am missing?

Thanks for your time,

Brian S. Lynn
Technical Coordinator, Product Engineering
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[ptc-43874]

One thing I've done to find tiny gaps is turn the main quilt color to
the black. Turn the background black, and slightly rotate the model.
Little yellow holes will flicker a bit till you can find them.

[BobFrindt]

You may be able to create a "thin" using the surface feature, or create an
offset surface. Holes can show up by becoming larger or being highlighted
as an overlapping situation. Seems like there should be a menu pick that
would highlight this geometry though, shouldn't there?

Bob Frindt
Sr. Designer
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Parker Aerospace
Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division
9200 Tyler Boulevard
Mentor, OH 44060 USA
direct (440) 954-8159

[brianlynn]

Summary and original and responses attached.

Thank you to Dorian, your solution helped me track down the two tiny gaps
that were left.

Dorian's solution was to change the background and the inner quilt
geometry system color to black and then when you spin you get little
flashes that you can zoom in on and fix.

Brian S. Lynn
Technical Coordinator, Product Engineering

[cbstdsgn]

One method I normally use is to extrude a surface that cuts the model
completely in half, then merge them together. If the resultant merged
quilt can solidify, then it means the small holes are in the 'other'
half of the quilt.

I keep halving the quilt until I can finally nail down the problem areas..

Best Regards,

Michael Chen



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Brian Lynn wrote:
>
> I have a import feature that someone else imported, that I now need to
> heal and create a solid from. I changed the quilt geometry system color
> from magenta to yellow for the outside quilt geometry, if I have that
> backwards don't worry about it, I play with the colors until the
> majority of the quilt is magenta (default) and the holes in the quilt
> are yellow. then I found all the goofy geometry that imported and
> deleted the surfaces from the import feature, once that was done I made
> a copy of the entire import, hid the import feature and then started
> replacing the missing geometry. From what I see the model looks
> completely healed, but solidify is still not active, is there a tool for
> finding these gaps, that obviously I am missing?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Brian S. Lynn
> Technical Coordinator, Product Engineering