When I import a surface model as a rule it has multipul "imported surfaces" to it. After I run the import diagnostics and heal all the surfaces that I can I exit the diagnostics menu and then attempt to fix the remaining surfaces. However now all faces are part of one surface rather than seperate surfaces that can be deleted or replaced. Is there a setting that I am missing to allow the surfaces to stay seperate?
TIA
Jim
Jim,
Bummer. I've never seen that error message before. It would seem to indicate that your imported part is really badly broken. (Not to say that the exporting software was bad, although it could be, just that SolidWorks is completely unable to make heads or tails of it.)
I take it that your having multiple faces selected was because deleting one at a time failed first? You may be able to make headway by finding one face that you can delete, then work your way through the rest of the bad ones. This will involve a lot of trial and error.
Another possibility, also very painful, is to use the imported part as a skeleton and build a SW part over the top of it. This may or may not work, depending on the degree of accuracy you need.
Jerry Steiger