What is a duplicate surface?

Adarsh Kumar
Adarsh Kumar Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

We often need to delete duplicate surfaces but I can't get what is a duplicate surface. 

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  • Simon Križnik
    Simon Križnik Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    Duplicate surfaces are surfaces that share exactly the same position in space (we would get duplicate surface by copying). They should be removed before meshing by Geom>defeature>duplicates.

     


     

  • Adarsh Kumar
    Adarsh Kumar Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    Does it means a new surface is *overlapping* upon former. 

  • Simon Križnik
    Simon Križnik Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    yes

  • Adarsh Kumar
    Adarsh Kumar Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    How 'copying error' is generated. 

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