HFSS15: Setting the Healing Options

The Healing Options let you control how healing proceeds with respect to a variety of features and issues.

1. Click Modeler>Model Healing>Heal to open the Healing Options dialog. You can also open the Healing Options dialog from the Model Analysis dialog via the Objects tab drop down menu.

The Healing Options dialog contains three tabs:

• Healing Options

• Feature Removal Options

• Properties, which lists the geometric properties of the currently selected object.

2. Select the Healing Options tab on the Healing Options dialog to specify the following:

• Heal Type as: Auto Heal (default), Manual Heal, or No Heal.

Selecting Manual Heal enables the Manual Heal Options:

• Perform Tolerant Stitching checkbox.

This enables a field for the Stitch Tolerance value, and a checkbox to Stop After First Error.

• Perform Geometry Simplification

This enables fields for Simplification Tolerance and Maximum Generated Radius values.

You can also select radio buttons to Simplify Curves, Surfaces, or Both.

• Tighten Gaps settings.

A checkbox to select Perform Tighten Gaps

A field to specify Tighten Gaps Within a given value in mm.

3. Select the Feature Removal Options tab to specify the following:

Here you can specify the following Feature Removal Options.

• Remove Holes checkbox and Maximum Radius value.

• Remove Chamfers checkbox and Maximum Width value.

• Remove Blends checkbox and Maximum Radius value.

You can specify the following Remove Small Entity Options:

• Small Edges, Length Less Than, less than a specified value.

• Small Faces Area e Less Than, less than a specified area.

• Sliver Face Width Less Than, less than either:

• Object Bounding box Scale Factor, less than a specified scale factor

• Sliver Edge Width, less than a specified value.

Sliver faces have a maximum distance among the long edges that is smaller than the specified tolerance and have at least one short edge and at most three long edges. A short edge has a length less than the specified tolerance. A long edge has a length greater than the specified tolerance. You can give the tolerance as a absolute value or a factor of the bounding box containing the face.

You can Control Object Properties Change according to the following settings:

• Allowable Change in Surface Area checkbox, and percent value.

• Allowable Change in Volume checkbox, and percent value.

4. Select the Properties tab to view the geometric properties of the currently selected object.

5. Click OK to apply the specified Healing options and to open the Analysis dialog.