How to heal after deleting a face

[KarolR]

I used the Remove Face command and it left the solid without a volume.

I cannot use the replace face command because there isn't any volume, even after i completed the missing faces with The Boundary Patch command.

How to complete the solid again?

I know there is the Heal option in the Remove Face command, but i want to learn to do it outside.

Move Face.ipt

[JD Mather]

There is no "Remove Face" command in my version, maybe this is a language translation problem.

Are you using an English language version of Inventor?

 

Try the Stitch command and select the two surface bodies to stitch back into a solid body.

[KarolR]

This is version 2009, and it's called Delete face, but i will try the Stitch command.

[JD Mather]

This is version 2009, and it's called Delete face, but i will try the Stitch command.

 

You must be very precise in your problem descriptions to avoid confusion.

[KarolR]

I used the Stitch command and afterwards the Replace Face command on the new created solid and it succeeded.

I ask what is a quilt, it's written in the help, since with the stitch command, i combined a 3D surface with ordinary solid faces, to create a solid

[JD Mather]

....i combined a 3D surface with ordinary solid faces, to create a solid

 

I don't think so.

Can you attach file that proves this?

When you did a Delete Face you no longer had an "ordinary solid faces" - if you look in the browser you should see a folder that says Surface Bodies, not Solid Bodies.

A quilt is several surface bodies stitched together.

When you delete a face from a solid you are left with a quilt (several sitched surfaces)

or

when you stitch several surface together that do not for a watertight volume you get a quilt (surface body) rather than a solid.

[KarolR]

I don't see no surface bodies, no solid bodies folder in the file attached.

And the Replace command worked, so i guessed it works only on solids.

Ans also, after the Stitch command it looked as a solid, all grey.

Move Face.ipt

[JD Mather]

I don't see no surface bodies, no solid bodies folder in the file attached.

...it looked as a solid, all grey.

 

I forgot you are using a 4-yr old release, much has changed.

In any case, don't be fooled be color. All grey does not mean it is a solid.

 

It is solid when the part has volume (iProperties) and you can use solid editing tools. (it was all grey when you did Delete Face, but not a solid)