I have a simple issue, and I would appreciate if someone could tell me where I am going wrong or direct me to a forum which holds the answer to my problem. The issue is, I have two Breps that I want to join into a singular Brep, but the Brep Join tool is having problems achieving this. I am assuming this problem is due to them being discontinuous, as I have been successful with joining continuous geometries with the same tool. Please see attached sceenshot for workflow and outputs.
usually breps store surfaces that are connected. often to show a volume.
what is your purpose?
there was a discussion resently about hollow objects- the surface inside is not connected to the outside.
the term used was “nonmanifold”
The purpose here is to efficiently create “shell” geometries used for Abaqus structural simulations, so I do not want a full volume as the final joined geometry, only surfaces.
Okay this is progress, but still not exactly what I need. You’ve omitted one of the parts of the split rectangular surface, which I still need in the final join. If you input both fragments of the split surface into the join brep tool along with the tube, the join brep tool still fails.
This works and seems to be exactly what I am looking for. However, there is still some problem with the join. After meshing, you can see that the surfaces are still treated as disconnected even though it is only one brep. I tried testing the method that Volker Rakow had suggested as well, but it seemed like the same problem occurred.
