Creating a Temporary Analysis

When creating a feature, you can create temporary analyses helping you to verify the quality of the curve during its creation. This command is available with the 3D Curve and Sweep commands.

Before you begin: Create a new 3D shape.
See Also
Checking Connections Between Surfaces
Analyzing the Distance Between Elements
  1. From the Creation section of the action bar, click 3D Curve .
    The 3D curve dialog box is displayed.
  2. Choose the Through points type.
  3. Select the points.
  4. In the App Options panel, click Temporary Analysis Mode .


  5. Select the analysis of your choice, in our example, the Porcupine Curvature Analysis.


  6. Click OK in the Curvature Analysis dialog box.
  7. Select another point in the 3D curve command. The temporary analysis is updated accordingly.


    You must activate the temporary analysis mode before running any analysis. Otherwise, a persistent FreeStyle analysis is performed. The Temporary Analysis node is displayed in the tree and the associated analysis (here Curvature Analysis.1) appears below. The analysis is not persistent. Thus when you click OK in the 3D curve dialog box to create the curve, the Temporary Analysis node disappears from the tree.

    • You can perform several analyses while in the Temporary Analysis command all of them appear in the tree under the Free Form Analysis node.
    • While in the Fill, Net or Sweep command, you can perform a Connect Checker or Distance Analysis: the surface to be analyzed is automatically selected, as well as all surfaces that share at least one border with it. Once you exit the creation command, the analysis disappears.