Join Different Faces Together

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have been trying to join different surfaces together on the same part. Is this possible? 

I have uploaded the part and a figure to ensure that I am being understood.

Thanks for your help!

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

You cannot join surfaces, but you can delete a few and reconstruct again the part.

After you delete, the part became a surface, when you create the new surface to close the gap, it still a surface body. You must stitch all the surfaces to create again a solid. It will turn in to a solid only if there's no gaps, all the surfaces must create a closed body.

Check the video...

[JDMather]

Before I spend time on this issue -

1. Can you explain a compelling reason for needing to join these together?

2. It would have been immensely helpful if you had simply right clicked on the faces of interest and change the Properties to a different color so that I would know exactly what 3 faces you were referring to without a bunch of searching around to match image topology.

Be sure to set the boundaries of the new Patch as Tangent to the existing edges.

Video to follow...

[JDMather]

Oops, I forgot my video.

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

Thanks for your answer. 

I am using this model for stress analysis using ANSYS. When I am meshing the model, the mesh density at some areas are much more than what is needed. I noticed that this occured at certain points which are shared between three or more surfaces. For example the point shown in the image is shared between 5 surfaces.

The image which I uploaded before was just an example of three surfaces which I chose randomly.