MikeHalloran
Mechanical
- Aug 29, 2003
- 14,450
SW2009.4.1
Today I was importing a STEP file of a pump inlet casting, with a ~45 degree ell cast into the cover. The outer surface of the outer half of the ell showed up as a persistent gap, i.e., no surface there.
So, I right-clicked and said 'close the gap'. No joy.
I right-clicked again and said 'run the Gap Closer'... which brought up a tool, showing three handles at the ends of the three arcs that formed the actual gap. It might have been four arcs for a symmetrical casting, but this one was just slightly wonky.
The Help function/file/whatever has NO ENTRY for a gap closer. I searched and found a "what's new in 2006" file that explained you drag one of the point handles toward an opposite line. No joy. The point handles changed colors as I screwed with them, but no preview grid or surface showed up, and SW reported that it couldn't close the gap.
So I closed the import diagnostics tool and built a surface there a different way, and went on about my business.
The question remains, how exactly does the Gap Closer work, and under what circumstances does it succeed?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
Today I was importing a STEP file of a pump inlet casting, with a ~45 degree ell cast into the cover. The outer surface of the outer half of the ell showed up as a persistent gap, i.e., no surface there.
So, I right-clicked and said 'close the gap'. No joy.
I right-clicked again and said 'run the Gap Closer'... which brought up a tool, showing three handles at the ends of the three arcs that formed the actual gap. It might have been four arcs for a symmetrical casting, but this one was just slightly wonky.
The Help function/file/whatever has NO ENTRY for a gap closer. I searched and found a "what's new in 2006" file that explained you drag one of the point handles toward an opposite line. No joy. The point handles changed colors as I screwed with them, but no preview grid or surface showed up, and SW reported that it couldn't close the gap.
So I closed the import diagnostics tool and built a surface there a different way, and went on about my business.
The question remains, how exactly does the Gap Closer work, and under what circumstances does it succeed?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA