You can deform a mesh using a grid tool. It
allows several deformations: Stretching, shearing, twisting, scaling, and modeling.
Before you begin:
See also FreeStyle Shaper, Optimizer & Profiler User's Guide: Editing and
Keeping a Point.
From the Digitized Data section of the action bar, click Grid Modeling.
Select the mesh to deform.
A grid tool frames the mesh: It corresponds to the bounding box of the
mesh.
Dots are displayed in the middle of each face of the box.
Dots are displayed in the middle of each face of the box, as well as
degree and continuity tools (Right-click a dot to edit dot, degree and
continuity).
Optional: Click:
to hide the degree tools
to hide the continuity tools.
Increase or decrease the resolution of the grid.
Right-click a degree tag and select a new degree.
Or click a degree tag to progressively increase the value.
Or shift-click to decrease the value.
Select the deformation mode.
Face Grid: You can only manipulate one entire face in
the grid. Three operations can be performed.
Translation
Scaling
Rotation.
Law: You can
drag the handle of one face to manipulate several faces.
Select the type
of law.
Note:
Only available with the Face
Grid mode.
Point Grid: You can stretch vertices and edges
individually in the grid tool.
Use the Robot to control the translation
direction.
Define the Display options to control the
direction.
Select the Dynamic Update check box to control the
deformation update.
By default, this check box is not selected and the
deformation is applied at the end of the manipulation.
Move the mouse close to any of the dots (Face Grid) or
any of the vertices or edges (Point Grid). Drag the
arrows to stretch the model.