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What is a Tiny Edge?

Generally speaking, a tiny edge is shorter than around half an inch. Landshape commands, especially Embed and Embed Fence, tends to work best when your edges are about 1 inch or longer. Best Landshape practice is to never embed edges that are shorter than necessary.

Linework imported from other CAD software, such as from Autocad DWG files, often has horrible edge topology. Linework imported from other sources, such as 3D Warehouse or even your office collegues, may also contain lots of tiny edges.

Always Clean imported linework before embedding. Learn more about Clean here.

What Colors Mean

The 1 shortest edge in your input will show a label in orange. An orange label does not necessarily mean that it is tiny.

Dark labels show the next 9 shortest edges in your selection. Similarly, a dark label does not necessarily mean that the edge is long enough.

How Short is Tiny?

If the shortest edge is many inches, feet or meters long, you are probably fine.

Ideally, edges that you Embed should be close in length to the resolution of the terrain area in which you do the embedding.

If your local area has say resolution 10, then edges in your input could be say from 2 and up. Longer should always work.

Try embedding with hidden edges turned on View Edge. Ideally, the resulting terrain mesh should have roughly uniform edge length. If your embed creates lots of tiny faces, try cleaning your edge input.

Automate Tiny Edge Removal

For an automatic way of fixing larger amounts of small edges, try the command Clean.

Note that currently, Clean may not work in all cases.

Inspect Edges is a good complement, allowing manual adjustment.