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Select Cavities dialog box

This dialog box opens when you click Select Cavities from the Surface Wrap Interior/Exterior group in the Surface Wrap Recipe dialog box.

Cavity Detection
Minimum Size Sets the minimum length of the cavity bounding box diagonal for cavity detection.
Minimum Volume Sets the minimum cavity volume for cavity detection.
Find Cavities Detects cavities based on the specified minimum size and minimum volume of the cavities, surface wrap resolution, and the local resolution, contact prevention, and auto refinement constraints.
Cavity List
Cavity list table Lists all detected cavities after you click Find Cavities. You select cavities by clicking the row corresponding to each cavity. To select a contiguous sequence of cavities, press and hold Shift as you click the first and last cavity. To select a noncontiguous sequence of cavities, press and hold Ctrl as you click each cavity. The number of selected cavities is displayed above the table.When you hold your cursor over a row, the corresponding cavity is highlighted in the graphics window.Note: To be able to see the detected cavities, the original selected entities must be transparent.For each detected cavity, the table lists the following information.ShowControls the visibility of the cavity. Cavity IDDisplays the identifier of the cavity.**Size (mm)**Displays the size of the cavity in millimeters.**Volume (mm^3)**Displays the volume of the cavity in cubic millimeters.Note: To display multiple cavities, select the cavities, and select the Show check box of one cavity.
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Select Cavities dialog box, Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

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