Tolerance Check

Detects any gap between surface patches.

How to use

1. Select an object.

2. Click the Tolerance check icon or choose the Tools > Analyze > Tolerance check command.

3. Verify what the Modeling Tool panel displays in the Positional check section.

Options

3D Tolerance

The reference tolerance used to determine if the model is closed or not. If the distance between two adjacent edges is greater than this tolerance value the object is considered open.

Modeling Tool panel. Set the value either by moving the slider or by typing it in the data field and pressing Enter.

Note: Consider that this is only an analysis tool so changing the 3D Tolerance value does not affect the geometry. If you want to adjust the geometry of an object which is the result of a Construction Tree in order to fit a specified tolerance, you have to modify the Surface Modeling Tolerance in the Preferences panel.

Positional check

Reports any gap between surface patches. If there are no gaps you will be reported that you have a closed solid. If there are gaps this section will report the Open along ìnî edges message. These edges will are displayed in yellow in the views.

Due to some approximation used in the check, some edges may lie in a sort of grey zone where it is not possible to determine whether the edges are inside or outside the tolerance. These edges will be displayed in green.