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Clean >> Delete Singularities

• Clean >> Delete Singularities command deletes several kinds of unnecessary data in a single operation.

• Unnecessary data is configured in the dialog box.

Step   

Execute Clean >> Delete Singularities command as follows:

1. Select Clean >> Delete Singularities from the menu or click the icon from the Clean toolbar.

2. The following dialog box appears.

Check Vertices with no face option to delete isolated vertices which do not belong to a face.

Check Coincident Vertices option to delete coincident vertices.

Check Folded Faces option to delete folded faces.

Check Faces on boundary option, and then select number 2 or 3 from Number of boundary edges to delete faces that have more than 2 or 3 boundary edges.

Check Small clusters option and type in the number of faces at Number of faces in cluster field to delete clusters( a set of connected faces ) that have less than the specified number of faces. ( See Face cluster )

Check Zero area faces option and type in the area of face at Zero area is smaller than field to delete faces with areas smaller than the specified value.

Check Blank group option to delete groups without a face.

Check Blank shell option to delete shells without a vertex.

3. Press OK button to complete the command.

Note  

• When the angle between adjacent faces which share an edge is so small, the faces are called Folded Faces.