Shape Healing & Validation

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Prepare incoming CAD for processing

A supplier model opens, looks complete, and then causes trouble during meshing or editing. Gaps, disconnected boundaries, and inconsistent geometry can take hours to investigate. Shape Healing & Validation helps your application find these issues and guide users through repair.

Build a repeatable preparation step for files arriving from different sources.

How it works

Check incoming geometry and collect findings against affected model items. Apply selected repairs using tolerances suited to your next operation. Run checks again and compare the findings. Your application can accept prepared models and send unresolved cases to a user for review.

Show users where attention is needed

Connect ShapeCheck findings to affected edges, faces, shells, or solids. Highlight a problem area and keep surrounding geometry visible so users can understand what needs work.

A batch service can use these findings to separate ready models from files that need review. An interactive tool can take users straight to a reported issue.

Repair with a clear accuracy goal

Use ShapeFix repair and sewing tools to close suitable gaps, correct inconsistent boundaries, and join disconnected faces. Choose tolerances that suit your models and the next operation.

Recheck repaired geometry to show which issues have been resolved and which still need attention. This gives teams a clear basis for accepting a model or reviewing it further.

Prepare geometry for the next operation

A small gap can be hard to see in a shaded model and still interrupt meshing or editing. Checking connected boundaries, face consistency, and solid validity before processing helps find these problems earlier.

Keep the original model available beside a repaired result. Users can inspect changed regions, review repair tolerances, and see which issues remain. This gives them a clear basis for accepting a repair or asking for further work.

Put supplier-file quality into an intake process

An engineering service may receive many models each day. If every file goes straight to meshing or editing, a few difficult inputs can interrupt later jobs and occupy specialists who first have to locate the problem.

Your application can check geometry at intake, apply agreed repairs, and check the result again. Ready models can move to the next operation. Unresolved cases can go to review with the affected faces or edges identified. A reviewer can compare the original and repaired shapes and inspect the tolerances used.

The service manages queues and acceptance rules around these checks. Keeping findings with the job also gives a supplier a clearer explanation when a file needs correction. Over time, recorded issue types can help the team identify recurring input problems and improve its delivery requirements, while specialists concentrate on models that need their attention.

Avoid repeated work later

Use model preparation before meshing, filleting, drawing generation, or feature recognition. Catching a problem early can reduce repeated work across these steps.

Share a difficult input model and tell us which operation needs to succeed. We can help define a preparation workflow and acceptance checks for your target operation.