Geometry Generation/Cleanup

The following options are available from the Geometry menu.

Autocleanup: Performs automatic geometry cleanup and prepares it for meshing based on the parameters set in the BatchMesher criteria file, which can be edited from this panel.
Comparison Tool: Perform a model-based CAD-CAD, CAD-FE or FE-FE comparison between two models, or two selections of entities. You can also use this tool to find and report on geometrical/shape differences.
Create Single Component: Opens a dialog to create a single component.
Create CFD Components: Functionality to define the standard CFD collectors. In the dialog, the commonly used collectors names, such as inflow, are pre-selected. Components can be added or removed from the list and a multiplier for each component can be defined. By clicking Create the selected components are created and appear in the Model Browser.
Defeature: Find and delete pinholes, fillets on surfaces and surface edges and duplicate surfaces.
Delete panel: Delete data from a model database, preview and delete empty collectors and preview and delete unused property collectors, material collectors, or curves.
Distance: Determine the distance between two nodes/points or the angle between three nodes/points, or to change distances or angles.
Drag: Create a surface and/or mesh by dragging a series of nodes or lines, or to create elements by dragging selected elements.
Edge Edit: Modify surface edges.
Geom Match Topology: Fix gaps between stitched edges and vertices to make the actual geometry of the surfaces consistent with the model topology.
Length: Determine the length of a selected group of lines.
Line Drag: Create a two or three dimensional surface and/or mesh or elements by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along another line.
Line Edit: Split, join, or extend lines.
Lines: Create lines using a wide variety of methods.
Mass Calc: Obtain the mass, area and/or volume of a selected group of elements, solids, or surfaces.
Metadata to CAE: Take metadata generated as part of the CAD import process and use it to setup CAE models.
Midsurface: Extract the midsurface representation of a solid part.
Nodes: Create nodes using a wide variety of methods.
Node Edit: Associate nodes to a point, line, or surface/solid face; move nodes along a surface; place a node at a point on a surface; remap a list of nodes to a line; or project nodes to an imaginary line passing through two nodes.
Normals: Display the normal of an element or surface, adjust the orientation of element normals and reverse the normal of an element or surface.
Numbers: Display the IDs of an entity.
Organize: Reorganize your database by copying or moving data (entities) among collectors or includes.
Point Edit: Perform many point-specific geometry cleanup tasks.
Points: Create free points using a wide variety of methods.
Project: Project data entities to a plane, vector, surface, or line.
Quick Edit: Many tools for rapid editing of model geometry.
Reflect: Reflect portions of a model about a plane, changing the selected portion into a mirror image of itself.
Renumber: Renumber entities.
Rotate: Rotate entities around an axis in space.
Scale: Increase or decrease an entity’s dimensions.
Solid Edit: Modify solid entities, including trimming and/or splitting solids and merging solids into a single entity.
Solids: Create solid geometry using a wide variety of methods.
Spin: Create a surface and/or mesh or elements by spinning a series of nodes, a line or lines, or a group of elements about a vector to create a circular structure.
Surface Edit: Allows you to perform a variety of surface editing, trimming and creation functions.
Surfaces: Create surfaces using a wide variety of methods.
Systems: Create rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.
Translate: Move entities in a single specified direction.
Vectors: Create a vector entity.