Import 1 did not regenerate properly, and cannot find the boundary edges

nidor_huang

Hi,

I imported a prt file onto Onshape, and it says the import did not regenerate properly: imported part contains faults. Part 1 contains faulty topology. I guess it could be caused by some boundary edges. However I cannot see any solid red edges showing the places I need to repair. Not quite sure what is the root cause of this error and what to do next. Any suggestions?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/988d6e0f12b6596cc273ec44/w/2eff346a72de4fa578b9ccfe/e/d18a1b20ab436a9bbe6e9137

bruce_williams

@nidor_huang

Welcome to the forum!  

I feel your pain.  Translation errors are a continuing challenge for us as almost every project requires us to import customer data.  CAD data can be really poor and even the 'good' stuff can have faults.

@lougallo helped me through support with a good work around.  Do a round trip translation with another format.  If the part came in Parasolid export to ACIS and import back in.  

In your case ACIS round trip did not fix it.  Instead STEP round trip created a fault free part.  Here is the document.

Lou may want to add to this - his favored order to try is..

·         Parasolid

·         ACIS

·         STEP

·         IGES

 I encourage Onshape to do a webinar & help document on tips & tricks for import & repair.  I am hoping for better import & repair tools.  Till then this trick often works.

owen_sparks

You can also split the bad part with a bunch of planes to narrow down the location of the fault. (Hopefully that split will yield one good half, and one bad.  Rinse and repeat.)  Previously that only eve yielded all faulty parts but now it often works well.

Cheers,

Owen S.

owen_sparks

This featurescript is also worth a look:-

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ce40596b860ab50d657e1a25/v/9a76451de2f594a682e9d9e4/e/c40a2b405f618e4760ef6ebb

Owen S.