In this video Heal Edges is used. What is the purpose of using it? Because I couldn’t see any difference before and after using it.
Time 1.11
In this video Heal Edges is used. What is the purpose of using it? Because I couldn’t see any difference before and after using it.
Time 1.11
It cleans up imported geometry edges that may have been broken up into arbitrary segments. The purpose in your instance is to clean up the parting line edges to produce larger uniform segments and simplify the parting surface creation.
Problem is if I am not seeing any difference in before and after using heal edges. I have to assume it is a must to do so for all imported parts that is going to be molded.
Maybe you are not paying close enough attention..
after selecting heal you can see the change information..
zooming around the highlighted model (and actually having an understanding of what the command is doing..) will show you what is going on
EX: corner edge appears smooth but is disjointed
edge is now one continuous segment.
Just because it exists as a step in the video does not mean it is required (or isn't unnecessary for the application). The video is just trying to showcase the different mold tool functions.
If you are seeing no difference before and after, then maybe your part was ok and didn't need to be healed. Some features require the selection of edges, and when the selection requires a lot of zooming or box selection, or tangent selection, or other special techniques, it can get tedious. Plus, the more edges you have selected, the more chances there are that something is going to go wrong and lose an edge in a feature selection and cause an error later on.
I have used this function, but fairly rarely, and only as a last resort when the model is acting poorly. I recommend leaving it alone unless there is some problem you're trying to use it to solve. It will almost certainly slow down your tree, since it's a history based feature, and not just a one-and-done sort of thing.
Thanks.
I have see a video where heal edge has been used in a particular location. Do you any file where heal edge was used in a particular location?
Time around 2.30
Matt Lombard wrote:
I recommend leaving it alone unless there is some problem you're trying to use it to solve.
It is not clear what sort of problem?
You never really know what kind of problem you're going to run into. You will often just run into some new problem you haven't run into before. When you get into this type of modeling, there isn't really a clear set of rules. It's not all nicely documented. You have to be able to figure things out for yourself. There is no Youtube for how to solve every surfacing or advanced modeling problem you're going to run into.
It's often weird, like edges overlap when they clearly shouldn't. Or an edge appears to fly off into space. Or there is no edge where one ought to be. Or the "Black Hole" where all faces suck down to a single point. You never know what you're going to run into.
Maha Nadarasa wrote:
Problem is if I am not seeing any difference in before and after using heal edges. I have to assume it is a must to do so for all imported parts that is going to be molded.
No, it is not something that must be done for all imported parts that are going to be molded. It is occasionally (rarely) useful.
Maybe you are not paying close enough attention..
after selecting heal you can see the change information..
zooming around the highlighted model (and actually having an understanding of what the command is doing..) will show you what is going on
EX: corner edge appears smooth but is disjointed
edge is now one continuous segment.
Just because it exists as a step in the video does not mean it is required (or isn't unnecessary for the application). The video is just trying to showcase the different mold tool functions.