About Mapping

• You can map points onto points, curves, surfaces, and symbolic outputs.

  Points can be:

  • isolated points,
  • associated points,
  • section points in section sets.

• You can map curves onto curves, surfaces, and symbolic outputs.

  Curves can be:

  • curves with or without tangents,
  • link outputs of link sets,
  • section curves.

• You can map surfaces onto surfaces and symbolic outputs.

  Surfaces can be:

  • isolated fill surfaces or guides lofts,
  • fill surfaces or guided lofts associated with a concept surface or a joint.

• You cannot map symbolic outputs but select them as map targets.

Important: When mapping other geometry than concept surfaces, you must first create a transfer feature from the points associated with the geometry to be mapped. The Transfer Feature command is available in the points context toolbar.

You can select multiple objects as map source and map them on the same map target. For example, you can map a curve its end points onto a surface with one step.

You can also select multiple map targets, but they must have the same dimension, that is you cannot mix points, curves or surfaces in the map target. Accordingly, symbolic output targets must consist of targets of one single dimension.

In contrast to other apps, the mapping operation does not create a new feature preserving the original geometry, but modifies the mapped objects.