Creating 2D-View Sections

Compute Corners and Thicknesses

Insert 2D-View Section lets you compute corners and thickness of the 2D-view section.

Before you begin:

Create a representation with a solid, a surface and a volume, for example.

  1. Double-click 2D-view section.x in the tree.
  2. Select 2D-View Only.
  3. Select one or several elements in a group.
  4. In the Default corner radius box, type the value or use the arrows to change the value.
  5. Click Compute corners.
    The corner operation is applied manually on the sharp vertices in the Section join node.

    The default corner radius defined in the dialog box is used for all created corners. However, you can independently modify each corner radius by double-clicking the radius value in the work area.

  6. Select the Automatically compute undefined corners check box to apply a new corner operation on undetermined vertices which may remain after the compute corners operation.
    Note: This check box does not affect sharp edges which result from setting their radius to zero during the corner computation.

    When this option is used prior to creating the corners with Compute corners, it systematically applies the default corner radius on all sharp vertices.

  7. Select the Thickness check box and enter a value to compute the thickness.

    This option can be applied on the result of a corner operation or on the elements of the Section join group if no corner operation has been defined. It is composed of a parallel curve followed by a closing lines operation.

  8. Click OK.
    The 2D-view thickness node in the tree contains the result of the corner and thickness operations.

 

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