Repair Surfaces

Use the Surface Repair tools to find, review, and fix any geometric errors in the model's surfaces.

1. From the Geometry ribbon, click the Surface Repair tool.

   
   
   Figure 1.

   By default, the Validate workflow opens on the secondary ribbon.
2. Click on the guide bar to define which errors to check for. Expand each subsection to set methods and tolerances to automatically fix each error.
   Tip:

   • Error types can also be turned on or off from the legend.
   • As errors are fixed, the legend is automatically updated to reflect the changes. However, for larger models it can be useful to avoid updating checks for each fix/modification. If you turn Auto refresh checks off, you have to click on the guide bar of each associated tool to manually refresh the legend.
3. Select surfaces to consider.
4. Click Find.
5. Click to automatically fix problems based on the defined checks, methods, and tolerances.
6. To review and fix specific error types, do one of the following:
   • Select the associated tool from the secondary ribbon.
   • Click the error type in the legend.
7. On the guide bar, navigate through and review each error using the arrows.
8. Define any additional options then fix the errors in the following ways:
   • Click on highlighted errors in the modeling window to fix them one-by-one.
   • Click the button on the far right of the guide bar to fix all errors at once.