HD70945: MANUFACTURING (NCINFRA) / ERROR SELECTING SURFACE FOR ROUGHING OPERATION

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• Manufacturing (NCINfra) / Error selecting surface
  for roughing operation
  .
  Scenario
  .
  1. Copy CATfct files to
  intel_a\code\resources\graphic.
  2. Open the attached model .CATPart. WB :Surface
  Machining
  3. Select a Roughing icon and select a
  Manufacturing Program.1 in a PPR tree.
  4. Display the Contextual Menu  in the part
  definition area in Geometry tab and click a  Select
  faces.
  5. Specify a face in the shape created by NUL
  command.
  6. The error message  " The selected
  geometry ?Face? is not supported. Please select
  another geometry.
  .
  Problem: This error is reproduced with not only
  Roughing command but also Sweeping command,
  etc. (Some faces cause this error, but it  is not
  specified what?s wrong with them.)
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Manufacturing (NCINfra) / Error selecting surface for roughing
  operation
  Manufacturing (NCINfra) / Error selecting surface
  for roughing operation
  .
  Scenario
  .
  1. Copy CATfct files to
  intel_a\code\resources\graphic.
  2. Open the attached model .CATPart. WB :Surface
  Machining
  3. Select a Roughing icon and select a
  Manufacturing Program.1 in a PPR tree.
  4. Display the Contextual Menu  in the part
  definition area in Geometry tab and click a  Select
  faces.
  5. Specify a face in the shape created by NUL
  command.
  6. The error message  " The selected
  geometry ?Face? is not supported. Please select
  another geometry.
  .
  Problem: This error is reproduced with not only
  Roughing command but also Sweeping command,
  etc. (Some faces cause this error, but it  is not
  specified what?s wrong with them.)
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM IS PERMANENT RESTRICTION IN
  CATIA
  Cause of the problem:
  a) The selected face and its border edges are
  described by the same Generic Name (GN).
  b) Since, GN is common for both Faces and Edges,
  identifier of the selected face is too long.
  c) This error message is generated because the
  identifier of the selected face is too long.
  .
  Problem: The real problem is that the face and its
  limiting edges should not be named with the same
  GN name
  .
  In order to proceed further, we need the following:
  1) Either the implementation of CATIBuild interface
  for feature NUL
  2) OR Directly the report of informations sent to GN
  .
  Without the report of informations sent to GN,
  Development cannot deepen their analysis. hence
  the problem is closed as Restriction.
  .
  

Temporary fix

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