automatic healing

[[De...]]

I have been asked to come up with some best practices and I am curious what your thoughts are on healing the cad model on initial import. I've worked in companies that did that as part of their process, and other companies which didn't do it at all, and a few in between. Is there guidance as to when to use the healing feature? I'm asking because others have asked my opinion, and I will confess I don't have enough knowledge to give a great answer.

[[Ro...]]

I always heal, mainly due to my hatred of all my drilled holes being cut into 2 surfaces.

But..... Several years ago I was working on a project, and there was a problem with a dimension I was capturing on a surface that could be verified with a height gage. I was showing the profile to be out of tol, but the thickness (which was the problem) was good measured on the granite. I measured the cad model and found that the distance to the surface should be X, and the print dim was different by a good amount.
I went to engineering and asked them if the cad model was off to the print, and they said their master file was exactly where it should be.
So I imported the file again, healed it and I noticed when I healed the model, something changed. I found that just selecting "Correct Boundary Curves" was fine, but one of the other functions, Simplification, Stitching, or Build Geometry caused my problem. So now I never click those buttons anymore.

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[[Cl...]]

I think most programmers would say to use healing all the time.
I only use it when needed. If there is some obvious problem with
the model. Ticking "Build Geometry" usually fixes any problem.

[[Mi...]]

I think the issue is poor explanations from Zeiss as to which selection does what....

I rarely do it.

[[Da...]]

I found this:
http://www-isl.ece.arizona.edu/ACIS-doc ... /01CMP.PDF

[[Ca...]]

Here is an explanation from our Knowledge Base of what each option does for Automation Healing:

https://portal.zeiss.com/knowledge-base?id=895194