unconnected elems when adjusting normal

tinh
tinh Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi

I encounter an error said ' some elems appear to be unconnected and were not processed' while adjusting normals

Is there anyway to fast find out those elements?

some small number of elements then I can find easy but it's huge

Kindly note that my model is OK about quality, free edge, connectivity/duplicate and i already check whether any 2 or more elements connect to each other via 1 node( checking by macro). also i cannot upload my model here

 

Thank you in advance

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2015

    Hi Tinh,

     

    is it an assembly or just a single component?

     

    Also, does it say that 'failed elements saved'?

     

    Would it be possible for you to share the model via FTP link in my signature?

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited August 2015

    Hi Tinh,

     

    is it an assembly or just a single component?

     

    Also, does it say that 'failed elements saved'?

     

    Would it be possible for you to share the model via FTP link in my signature?

     

    Oh, Pagadala

    finally I found the position, it exactly passed my macro without error reported

    sometimes I encounter this error because shell elements are connected via only 1 node like this:

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    so i made a macro (a template) to check it by detecting nodes have more than 2 free-edge elems. It works well

     

     

    But this time I encounter the error in a covered model so there is no free-edge to be detected, as below image:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>post-3195-0-02668800-1439866913_thumb.pn

     

    actually this is first time i see this error, (in a huge batch mesh model).

    This can be found easily by set feature angle 180DEG and mask elements 'by face' but I did not see it before, so I tried adjusting each small area one by one

     

    I hope this function (adjust normal) in newer hm version will show the position of unconnected mesh  image/emoticons/default_cool.png' alt='B)'>

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2015

    Hi Tinh,

     

    Thanks for the update and suggestions. I will let the developers know about this. image/emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>