Concatenating Shapes

Concatenating Surfaces

You can concatenate a surface into a mono-cell surface. The resulting surface is a curvature continuous surface (C2).

You can concatenate a two-cell mono-domain FreeStyle Shape Design surface or two separate contiguous surfaces.

Before you begin: Open an existing 3D shape containing a set of connected surfaces.
  1. Set the tolerance value to define the maximum parametric deviation allowed between the selected elements and the resulting surface.
  2. Select the surfaces to concatenate.
  3. Click Apply.
    If the tolerance is compatible, a single surface is shown with its segment limits in U and V.
  4. Click More>>.
  5. Select Information.
    The following information is displayed on the resulting surface:
    • Nu/Nv: Number of control points in U and V.
    • o: Surface order.
    • s: Number of surface segments.
    • Maximum deviation.
  6. Select Auto Update Tolerance to automatically update the tolerance value in case the set value is too low.
  7. Click OK.
    A C2 continuous surface is created.

 

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