Imprint Lines or Surfaces on Midsurfaces

Use the Pocket Imprint tool to imprint pockets, fillets, and other geometry features from the source geometry onto the midsurfaces.

Imprinting makes midsurface thickness calculations more accurate by creating mesh boundaries that match the feature boundaries on the original solid, and improves the meshing quality by capturing the features of the solid model.

  1. From the Geometry ribbon, Create tools, click Midsurfaces > Pocket Imprint.


    Figure 1.
  2. Optional: On the guide bar, click to define imprint options.
  3. Click Source on the guide bar and select Lines or Surfaces from the drop-down menu.
  4. Select lines/surfaces.
    You are not required to select the midsurface. HyperWorks X automatically recognizes the midsurface corresponding to the solid/surface component from which it was derived and imprints the lines/surfaces on the midsurface component.
  5. Optional: To manually select target surfaces, change the Target surfaces selection option to Manual, click Target on the guide bar, and select make your selection.
  6. Imprint lines/surfaces.
    • Click Imprint on the guide bar.
    • Left-click on selected lines/surfaces


Figure 2.
Tip: On the guide bar, click to open the Advanced Selection dialog, from which you can filter geometry further by selecting a subset of entities based on additional selection methods, such as By Component or By Assembly.

Pocket Imprint Options

Target surfaces selection
Select a target selection option.
Line extension method
Select a line extension option.
Keep line endpoints
Keep line endpoints when extending lines.
Surface imprint method
Select which lines to imprint.
Do not imprint internal edges
Skip internal edges and common edges of selected surfaces.
Do not imprint near existing edges
Skip edges too close to pre-existing features.
Minimum gap detection
Select the minimal allowed gap size.
Minimum gap size
If the distance between imprinted and pre-existing lines is smaller than this value, then the edge is skipped during imprinting.

Keyboard Shortcuts & Mesh Controls

To do this Press
Select lines/surfaces Left Mouse Click
Deselect lines/surfaces Shift + Left Mouse Click
Exit tool Esc