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RCruz April 4, 2019 04:21

solid surface or wireframe, who do I trust?
 
Hi!

Context :
Being a bit new to ICEM, I'm tasked with making watertight a plane geometry generated by ICEM from a CAD file.
Needless to say, ICEM does the best it can but a lot of small connectivity problems arise.

Problem :
I don't know how to confirm if the geometry is watertight since the surfaces match in wireframe view but they don't in solid view. When I Create/Modify curve > extract curves from surfaces the curves also seem to be watertight, but I know the software may not create a surface that perfectly follows the curve if there is approximation problems.

Example :

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gD6Kyqs8MgVV2xXh6

Here, there is a hole between blue and dark black surfaces, but the wireframe and curves merge correctly, so who do I trust?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gD6Kyqs8MgVV2xXh6


https://photos.app.goo.gl/gD6Kyqs8MgVV2xXh6

Gert-Jan April 7, 2019 15:32

Maybe the solution in this link:


https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/an...ine-blade.html


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