Hi! Been a long time since I posted.

I have a tough one here. Its a split line surface for a mould. Originally designed in Catia its was sent to us as a step file and typical of Catia models its is full of holes. Anyway I am attaching the splitline file and would really appreciate some pointers on getting these surfaces to join. Specifically:

The lilac surface are joined already. Its the orange ones that are problematic, particularly the dark orange one butting up against the lilac.

TIA.

Hi there

i separated the already joined areas and there were elements stacked on top of each other. up to 3 copies, but it differs..green part f.i. had just 1 copy



you just have to clean up..joining the rest of those parts shouldn't be a problem then

Hi Seabastian,

exactly as Marco mentioned...too many copies, splitted edges and overlapped various objects.

Please find attached jointed surface, hope this helps.

Mik

Thanks guys. I knew there were double surfaces, but whenever I tried to delete them it deleted everything. Not sure what I was missing.

Now the next question: even when I tried to rebuild a surface using adjacent surfaces (like a blend, for example) it still would not join. why is that. What method did you use?

Also, even though it is now a joined surface, using the naked edges script still shows a ton of naked edges. How can it be a joined surface but have naked edges?

Hi Sebastian,

re:
> How can it be a joined surface but have naked edges?

In MoI something is called a "Joined surface" if it's an object made up of more than one face (and so joined together along some edges) but isn't a solid because it has some naked edges in it. If there are no naked edges it will be called a "solid" instead of just a "Joined surface".

- Michael

There are still some remaining doubled and tripled surfaces in those areas where you're seeing internal naked edges.

- Michael

I've attached one here that's closer yet, with more doubled and tripled surfaces removed. Still at least one area that looks like it will need some reconstruction though.

- Michael