You can create a simple light surface, with no offset. This light
surface requires less storage space and reduces design time. Once the design is
completed, replace the light surface with the original one.
Alternatively, you can enter an offset to create a fuzzy offset of the
original surface.
Light Surface:
- Accepts only one surface as input.
- Is available only at the part level.
The initial surface must :
- Be manifold.
- Have one single boundary. It must be the outer boundary.
- Have no auto-intersections.
In addition:
- Geometric gaps between faces may not exceed 0.1mm.
- There must be at least one direction in which the part presents no
undercut.
The performance depends on the complexity of the surface:
- It may take a few minutes for a complex surface represented by hundreds of
faces.
- The reduction of size depends also on the complexity of the surface.
- The computation time and the data reduction depend on the number of shape edges
to process. We recommend that you fillet the initial surface before creating the
light surface.
- There is no progress bar to control or stop the computation.