Repair User Settings Reference

The following options are available when you click the (Repair User Settings) icon at the bottom of the Surface Repair tool. Only one set of inputs is provided for both Individual and Patch selection modes.

The Repair User Settings are global to the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ environment rather than specific to each simulation. That is, saved settings are stored so that you can access them at all times on your machine, even when you update Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to a new version.

Break at Feature Edges/Break at Non-manifold Edges /Break at Sharp Angles
These options control the break behavior of smart selection in the graphics window. That is, when you double-click a selected entity in the graphics window, smart selection adds further adjacent entities until a break point defined by these properties is reached. Activate or deactivate according to the selection behavior you require.
  • Non-manifold edges are edges that are not shared between two faces only (includes free edges)
  • When breaking at sharp angles, you can adjust the Angle at which the break occurs
Source/Target Color Options
Allows you to assign colors to the source and target groups. Source and target groups are used when marking faces and edges in the Imprinter, Boolean Faces, Intersect Faces and Find Leak Path tools. Once a color is assigned to a source or target group, the color becomes universal for every surface repair tool that has the same group.
Enable Restore Previous Tool
When you activate (Restore the previously displayed scene faces), Simcenter STAR-CCM+ uses more memory and the time taken to update the Repair Surface scene increases. If you deactivate this option, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ no longer saves the currently and previously displayed face subsets. For more information, see Display Control Tools.
Part Surface Color Options
Allows you to identify contacting part surfaces by coloring the coincident faces. Available in Part Surface color display mode (see Color Modes) when Enable Contact Color is activated. Coloring methods:
  • Use Specified Color—applies the same color to all contacting part surfaces. You can select the desired color in Contact Color.
  • Use Patch Based Color—colors the contacting part surfaces based on the surface patch ID. Surfaces with the same patch ID have the same color; non-contiguous part contacts are in a different color. The colors used for the part contacts are not the same as the colors used for the Patch color mode.
  • Use Contact Based Color—colors contacting part surfaces based on the part surface contact they belong to. Non-contiguous part contacts are displayed using the same color.
The default repair color map is used to define the colors for the contacting part surfaces, while the standard Siemens color map is used for non-contacting part surfaces.
Restore Defaults
Allows you to restore the default settings.