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unconnected elems when adjusting normal

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

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

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:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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"?>

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 /emoticons/default_cool.png' alt='B)'>

Altair Forum User

Hi Tinh,

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