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Surface Repair Environment (BETA)

User Interface

The Surface Repair Tool is a separate environment specifically designed to allow small issues to be corrected and requires either the Design or FE level license. Since the Surface Repair requires additional information to be loaded, use in a full display mode of larger files is not recommended, rather, each issue should be treated as a separate region and fixed prior to moving on to the next item. Loading location-specific data only is the default mode of operation in order to avoid long wait times.

This separate design tool is still in a Beta Developement Stage, meaning that there are known bugs and changes are still being developed to address these issues so the tool should not be considered 'final' and completely relied on (consider yourself warned).

The environment is broken up into four regions, each explained in more detail on their own pages:
- Graphical Display
- Tools
- Selections & Visual Items
- Changes and Issues

In addition to interacting through the tool buttons, the interface also allows selection of vertices/edges/facets and shows basic information for the selected entity in the lower part of the screen.