From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Utilities Suite

Geometry Analysis options - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Utilities Suite

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Geometry Analysis options

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- [Instructor] Another part of the SOLIDWORKS utilities that we'll want to take advantage of are geometry analysis. This feature gives us the ability to find specific entities inside of our geometry that might be a problem. These can include sliver faces, small faces, short edges, knife edges, or very, very sharp edges and vertices, discontinuous edges and phrases, or other problem areas. To find the geometry analysis tool, you typically go to the Evaluate tab on the command ribbon and then click on Geometry Analysis. If you're not sure where it is, you can go up here to the command search. Just start typing in geometry, and you'll find Geometry Analysis here, and you can always hit the Show Location command. By clicking on it, we see all of the options that are brought up below. We can change how short the edges are, how small the faces are, how small the sliver faces are, how sharp the angles can be, and how sharp the angles of the knife vertices can be and the edge vertices can be. So you can see here, this is a lot to control at once, and this is a pretty small tolerance. And you can bring it down to eight decimals, like with all other values inside of SOLIDWORKS. We're going to go ahead and run this analysis in the next video, and then take a look at the results that we can get from it.

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