Browsers provide a structured view of model data, which you can use to review, modify, create, and manage
the contents of a model. In addition to visualization, browsers offer features like search, filtering, and sorting,
which enhance your ability to navigate and interact with the model data.
Use the Preserve Edges tool to ensure that specific component edges and feature lines do not accidentally get discarded during auto cleanup
or batch meshing.
Perform a model-based CAD-CAD, CAD-FE or FE-FE comparison between two models, or two selections of entities, and find
and report geometrical/shape differences.
FE geometry is topology on top of mesh, meaning CAD and mesh exist as a single entity. The purpose of FE geometry
is to add vertices, edges, surfaces, and solids on FE models which have no CAD geometry.
Tools and workflows that are dedicated to rapidly creating new parts for specific use cases, or amending existing
parts. The current capabilities are focused on stiffening parts.
Use PhysicsAI to build fast predictive models from CAE data. PhysicsAI can be trained on data with any physics or
remeshing and without design variables.
Explore, organize and manage your personal data, collaborate in teams, and connect to other data sources, such as
corporate PLM systems to access CAD data or publish simulation data.
Use the Stitch Surfaces tool to stitch or unstitch adjacent
and intersecting surfaces.
From the Topology ribbon, Stitch tool group, click the Stitch Surfaces tool.
Optional: On the guide bar, click to define stitch options.
For FE geometry, all options are supported as CAD geometry
except “Optimize surface quality”.
Stitch methods include:
Stitch and intersect
Finds intersections between overlapping surfaces, creates
trimming lines at the intersections, and equivalences the
resulting surface edges.
Stitch edges only
Performs equivalencing of edges within surfaces or/and between
surfaces. Further options like stitch free edges or stitch edges
between components or across components are available to control
stitching between edges.
Use Parasolid
Use Parasolid kernel to stitch edges. This option works on free
edges only and not on non-manifold or T junctions. In addition,
only surface selection is supported – clicking and dragging
edges or points has no effect. This option is useful for locally
merging edges that are less than 10 times the geometry cleanup
tolerance.
Stitch or unstitch surfaces in the following ways:
Select surfaces to stitch in the modeling window
then click Stitch on the guide bar.
Repair geometry by replacing edges and points.
Click-and-drag an edge to another edge, or click-and-drag a point to
another point.
Select the point(s) to move, then click one of the selected points
that you wish to retain and combine with the other selected
points.
Left-click on a surface edge to advance its topology state from free to
shared. Conversely, hold Shift while left-clicking
to regress its topology state from shared to free.
Tip:
Use window selection to select multiple surfaces, and simultaneously stitch
adjacent surfaces and intersecting surfaces. Adjust individual edges if
needed.
Use the legend in the upper-left corner of the modeling window to assist you
in finding edges. Edges are color coded by type. Show and hide an edge type
by toggling its corresponding checkbox on and off, or quickly isolate an
edge type by clicking Only.