I am currently looking at the demo of shark (PC)

I have been attempting to make joined/closed surfaces into a solid so that booleans can then be made, is this actually possible?.
At first I thought it maybe due to the surfaces I had created, but even constructing simple (cubes / cylinders) closed surfaces appear not to be able to be made into solids.

Example: I build a cube out of surfaces, I then join all surface together, but it is not a solid (it cannot be selected for solid boolean). So I right click the closed surface and select "Change object type", but the only options are change type to "curves / surfaces / mesh". So,....I then make a "blend edge" along one edge of the closed surface which works,.... so I then right click the closed surface and again select "Change object type" and this time there is an option to "Change to solid", but when I do that I get a popup stating: "Solid already separated", then any attempts to make boolean subtract simple leaves an hole showing the inside/hollow of the closed surface.

>>I am currently looking at the demo of shark (PC)

Holler if you want trial codes to save files.

Tim

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the info.

I am still sorting through the various tools/options for the surfacing, but will want to export models to make further checks, so yes, thanks, I will drop you a PM when I need a trial code so I can export.

Regards,

- Steve

Hi JL,

I would like more info on this, it is certainly not working as I would of thought.

From the default setting "use tolerant edge" is enabled, if I bring up the stitching options dialog before making a join I find that I cannot disable the option, well, should I say I can un-check the option, but the "OK" is left disabled, so I have to cancel. I can start to change some of the values and some times the "OK" does come up, but it is unpredictable.


Hi Tim,

Should not the user be able to enter various values within the stitching options and be able to OK the entry? I would certainly expect to be able to disable the "use tolerant edges"


Regards,

- Steve

- What is the real difference between healing and stitching ?

Healing modifies geometry. Typically it will modify geometry to get G0 at a shared edge. It's suppose to preserve G1, but Nick showed me some stuff last week that I need to follow up with Spatial.

Stitching adds "links" between faces that share an edge. It defines the relationship between geometries.

- Does it make sense to use both together ?

Yes. You will need to heal if the geometries are not within ACIS tolerance.

- In metric, the default values are "1". Does it mean 1mm gaps will be "closed" ?

Yes up to 1mm.

I've pasted a stitch log file below to give you an idea of everything that is going on with a stitch.

Tim













GEOMBUILD ANALYSIS :
====================
geom build tol = 10
no. of edges = 534
no. of bad edges = 95
no. of coedges = 1068
no. of bad coedges = 190
no. of vertices = 346
no. of bad vertices = 38
no. of bad tangent edges = 71
no. of bad tangent edges analytic = 11
no. of G1 bad tangent edges analytic = 13
no. of bad tangent edges uv_uv = 28
no. of bad tangent edges boundary uv_uv = 22
no. of bad tangent edges uv_nonuv = 32
no. of bad tangent edges nonuv_nonuv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges 3_4_sided = 14
no. of surfaces = 192
no. of discontinuous surfaces = 0
percentage of good geom = 95

ANALYTIC SOLVER RESULTS :
=========================
2 degree of snapper graph
66 analytic tangent junctions resolved
0 analytic tangent junctions unresolved
376 analytic intersections resolved
2 analytic intersections unresolved
330 vertices resolved (196 intersected, 134 projected)
0 unstable vertices corrected
0 vertices unresolved
0 edges calculated by exact projections
0 edges calculated by approx projections
0 coincident snaps resolved

ISOSPLINE SOLVER ANALYSIS RESULTS :
===================================
49 isospline tangent junctions present in the body
20 complete range,
2 subset,
0 overlap,
18 spline-plane,
9 spline-analytic

ISOSPLINE SOLVER RESULTS :
==========================
48 isospline tangent junctions resolved
20 complete range,
2 subset,
0 overlap,
18 spline-plane,
8 spline-analytic
1 isospline tangent junctions unresolved
29 splines re-fit to vertices

SHARP EDGE SOLVER RESULTS :
===========================
17 sharp edges resolved
17 intersected
0 exact projections
0 approx projections
0 sharp edges unresolved

13 vertices resolved
5 intersected
8 exact projections
0 approx projections
0 vertices unresolved

GEN-SPLINE RESULTS :
====================
23 4-sided patches made
0 3-sided patches made
0 failures
0 unsolvable junctions

WRAPUP ANALYSE RESULTS :
========================
133 Coedges bad.

WRAPUP RESULTS :
================
150 pcurves computed
29 edges trimmed

GEOMBUILD CALCULATION RESULTS :
===============================

Analytic Solver :
2 degree of snapper graph
66 analytic tangent junctions resolved
0 analytic tangent junctions unresolved
376 analytic intersections resolved
2 analytic intersections unresolved
330 vertices resolved (196 intersected, 134 projected)
0 unstable vertices corrected
0 vertices unresolved
0 edges calculated by exact projections
0 edges calculated by approx projections
0 coincident snaps resolved

Isospline Solver :
48 isospline tangent junctions resolved
1 isospline tangent junctions unresolved
29 splines bent to vertices

Sharp Edge Solver :
17 sharp edges resolved
17 intersected
0 exact projections
0 approx projections
0 sharp edges unresolved

13 vertices resolved
5 intersected
8 exact projections
0 approx projections
0 vertices unresolved

Generic Spline Solver :
23 4-sided patches made
0 3-sided patches made
0 failures
0 unsolvable junctions

Wrapup Module :
150 pcurves computed
29 edges trimmed


GEOMBUILD FIX RESULTS :
=======================
Statistics of the healed body after geombuild fix :
no. of edges = 534
no. of bad edges = 0
no. of coedges = 1068
no. of bad coedges = 0
no. of vertices = 346
no. of bad vertices = 0
no. of bad tangent edges = 0
no. of bad tangent edges analytic = 0
no. of G1 bad tangent edges analytic = 4
no. of bad tangent edges uv_uv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges boundary uv_uv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges uv_nonuv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges nonuv_nonuv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges 3_4_sided = 0
no. of surfaces = 192
no. of discontinuous surfaces = 0
percentage of good geom = 100


SIMPLIFICATION ANALYSIS :
=========================
INPUT STATISTICS :
31 Splines,
87 Planes,
4 Spheres,
66 Cylinders,
4 Cones,
0 Tori
296 Straights,
18 Circles,
97 Ellipses,
123 Intcurves,
Simplification not recommended

SIMPLIFICATION FIX RESULTS :
============================
Simplification tolerance = 0.001
no. of initial splines = 31
no. of final splines = 31

Number of analytics made from splines:
0 Planes,
0 Spheres,
0 Cylinders,
0 Cones,
0 Tori

GEOMBUILD FIX RESULTS :
=======================
Statistics of the healed body after geombuild fix :
no. of edges = 534
no. of bad edges = 0
no. of coedges = 1068
no. of bad coedges = 0
no. of vertices = 346
no. of bad vertices = 0
no. of bad tangent edges = 0
no. of bad tangent edges analytic = 0
no. of G1 bad tangent edges analytic = 4
no. of bad tangent edges uv_uv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges boundary uv_uv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges uv_nonuv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges nonuv_nonuv = 0
no. of bad tangent edges 3_4_sided = 0
no. of surfaces = 192
no. of discontinuous surfaces = 0
percentage of good geom = 100

Hi Tim,

I was under the impression (possibly incorrect) that the "Maximum Stitch gap size" was a tolerance for the largest gap that would be allowed for a join between surfaces, anything outside the tolerance would not be joined.


Regards,

- Steve