Face Smooth

The Face Smooth dialog box appears when you select Face Smooth.

This dialog box contains controls for:

This page discusses:

General

Number of Face(s) to Improve
Displays the number of faces to process.
Max Deformation
Displays the highest acceptable deformation. It is to set to the standard tolerance (0.001mm) and cannot be edited.
Suppress Curves Shorter than
Removes curves shorter than a given threshold. If this value is higher than the Distance Max. value, the neighboring curves will be extrapolated to fill the gap created.
Reduce the Number of Edges
Reduces the number of edges in a boundary.

Parameters

Correction Level

To remove one or several correction levels, click the highest level required (for example, click Tangency to remove the Curvature level).

Max Measured Gap
These boxs are empty until you select faces to process. Then the maximum gaps found between the boundary edges of all selected faces are displayed for each selected level. Those values cannot be edited.
Max. thresholds
  • For the Distance and Tangency continuities, the faces will be improved if their gap values lay between the Min. (in grey) and the Max. value (in white).
  • For the Curvature continuity, the faces will be improved if the gap lays between 0.9 and 1.
  • Those thresholds (in white) can be edited.

Visualization

All
Displays information on all faces.
Not smoothable
Displays information on all faces that cannot be improved.
None
Displays no information.
Display information interactively
Displays textual information as you move the cursor over the faces.
Display information sequentially
Indicates in the counter below the rank and the total number of faces.
<< or >>
Displays the information on the previous or next face.