Warning Messages

This section notes the warnings that could occur when running ImPLANT-I. Further information is provided with some of the warnings.

Depending on the warning, you are advised to try to correct the inconsistencies in the DGN model and rerun ImPLANT-I. ImPLANT-I will continue running when a warning is issued, but the object that generated the warning will not be exported.

Most of the expected warnings will be produced on ill-defined faces:

• A face has been defined with duplicate points.

• A line in a face intersects or touches another line or point in the same face.

• A face defined as a number of points makes a single line, and therefore is not a correct face.

The following warnings may occur in the above category:

• Warning - Straight line found

• Warning - External Boundary 'n' degenerate

• Warning - External Boundary 'n' self intersecting

• Warning - External Boundary 'n' self touching

• Warning - Gap in loop of projected surface or surface of revolution

• Warning - Hole Boundary 'n' is degenerate

• Warning - Hole Boundary 'n' self intersecting

• Warning - Hole Boundary 'n' self touching

• Warning - Hole is degenerate

• Warning - Start and End Coordinates do not match

• Warning - Shape forced onto a plane

The following warnings may occur when certain complex elements are incomplete, or are not defined in the conventional manner:

• Warning - No rules found for capped surface or surface

• Warning - No boundaries found for capped surface or surface

• Warning - The capped surface or surface has not the same number of boundary records or is ill defined

• Warning - Nested Complex Shape found (but accepted)

Other warnings will be produced when some special cases have not been implemented in this version of ImPLANT-I:

• Warning - B-spline type found, not implemented

• Warning - Not implemented solid/surface type 'n'

• Warning - A planar solid has been found that has not been implemented

• Warning - Not implemented surface type 'n'

• Warning - Not implemented Volume Boundaries Type

• Warning - Not implemented Surface Boundaries Type

• Warning - Cell Library Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Line Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Text Node Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Complex String Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Text Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Point String Type Not Implemented

• Warning - B-Spline Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Shared Cell Definition Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Shared Cell Instance Type Not Implemented

• Warning - Group Data Not Implemented

• Warnings will be produced when there is something wrong with the construction of the model:

• Warning - The hole does not follow an external boundary

• Warning - The construction of the element has not been implemented

• Warning - Invalid type found, type = 'n'

• Warning - Two shapes in projected or surface of revolution do not have the same number of vertices

• Warning - A solid was found in a hole surface

• Warning - This construction cannot produce a primitive

• Warning - The following hole plane is not on the same plane

• Finally, warnings will be produced when ImPLANT-I is used in an invalid manner:

• Warning - A file for output has not been defined

• Warning - The millimeter factor has not been set