IotaSuite User Manual
  • Summary
  • Dashboard
    • Creating a Project
    • Editing a Project
    • Deleting a Project
    • Loading a Project
    • Unloading a Project
  • Project
    • Datasets
      • Importing a Dataset
      • Editing a Dataset
      • Deleting a Dataset
      • Visualising a Dataset
    • Screenshots
      • Importing a Screenshot
      • Editing a Screenshot
      • Deleting a Screenshot
      • Exporting a Screenshot
    • Graphs
      • Importing a Graph
      • Editing a Graph
      • Deleting a Graph
      • Exporting a Graph
    • Meshes
      • Importing a Mesh
      • Editing a Mesh
      • Deleting a Mesh
    • Videos
      • Editing a Video
      • Deleting a Video
      • Exporting a Video
    • Files
      • Importing a File
      • Editing a File
      • Deleting a File
    • Scripts
      • Importing a Script
      • Editing a Script
      • Deleting a Script
    • List of Scenarios
      • Creating a New Scenario
      • Loading a Scenario
      • Deleting a Scenario
      • Cloning a Scenario
  • Scenario
    • Creating a New scenario
    • Loading a Scenario
    • Editing a Scenario
    • Deleting a Scenario
    • Cloning a Scenario
  • Pre
    • Cretaing a Mesh of a Simple Geometry
      • Circle
      • Rectangle
      • Cuboid
      • Cylinder
    • Loading a Mesh
    • Importing a Mesh from a File
    • Filling holes of a Surface Mesh
    • Generating / Re-meshing a volume mesh
    • Remeshing a surface mesh
    • Creating Cut-Planes
  • Post
    • Visualising Results
    • Animating Results
    • Taking a Screenshot
    • Recording an Animation
    • Setting a View
      • Exporting and Importing a View
    • Post-processing Tools
      • Generating Cut Planes with Results
      • Generating a Line Variation Graph
      • Generating a Point Evolution Graph
      • Generating a Result Integral Graph
      • Generating a Result Statistics Graph
  • Graph
    • Customizing the Style of a Graph Traces
    • Customizing Graph Axes Settings
    • Exporting a Graph as an Image
  • Coarse-graining
    • Introduction
    • Coarse-granining module
      • Loading a Mesh
      • Input
        • Input DEM data
          • EDEM 2017+
          • LIGGGHTS-DUMP
          • LIGGGHTS-VTK
          • P4X
        • Pre-Filters
          • Overwrite Groups by Size
          • Filter Group ID
          • Filter by Bounding Box
          • Overwrite Velocity
          • Overwrite Groups
      • Averaging
        • Temporal Averaging
        • Spatial Averaging
          • Function
          • Width and Cutoff Factor
          • Gradients
          • Spatial Integral
        • Advanced
          • Particle Group Concentration
          • Surface/Wall Analysis
          • Residence Time
      • Output
        • Scale Results
        • Create DEM Dataset
        • Coarse Graining Output
        • Output Cylindrical Coordinates
        • Post-Analysis
          • Mixing
          • User-defined Scripts
  • Using Iota with EDEM
  • Using Iota with LIGGGHTS
    • LIGGGHTS-DUMP
    • LIGGGHTS-VTK
  • Using Iota with ANSYS-Fluent
  • Tutorials
    • Backhoe Tutorial EDEM 2017+
    • Paddle Mixer Tutorial EDEM 2017+
  • Licensing
    • Iota-Suite End User Agreement
    • Third Party Licenses
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Filling holes of a Surface Mesh

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This feature allows the user to fill the holes of a loaded and/or imported surface mesh in order to create a closed/water-tight mesh (see ) using the following process:

  1. Select an open surface mesh from the list of meshes shown at the top left side of the window by clicking on its name. Alternatively, users can also select a mesh by using the selection mode on the and clicking on the mesh rendered on the screen.

  2. Select one of the options from the Fill Surface Holes section:

    • Automatic Merge: the mesh patches created to fill the holes of the mesh will be automatically merged into the original mesh.

    • Patch as Mesh: Currently not available.

  3. Click on the Apply button.

Figure 29 - Fill Surface Holes feature of the module

An example of this feature is shown in . The image on the left side shows the initial surface mesh of drum with two holes. The image on the right side shows the resulting surface mesh after using the feature Fill Surface Holes using the option Automatic Merge.

Figure 30 - Example application of the Fill Surface Holes feature of the module. Left: Intial open surface mesh with holes. Right: Initial mesh where the holes haven been closed.

The generated closed/watertight mesh can be later used to . In order to save the changes conducted to the mesh, users should click the Save button located at the bottom of the page.

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