About Flanges

This section deals with basic concepts you should know before beginning with creating a Flange.

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Creating Flanges

Flange surfaces are composed successively from ruled surfaces. A flange surface can start from the guide curve or from a target surface. Length and Angle define extent and direction of the flange surface. The basic flange direction is the direction with a flange angle of 0 deg.

The order of the flange surface in direction of the guide curve will be adopted from the guide curve. The order perpendicular to the guide curve will always be 2. The guide curve

  • can exist for itself, without a surface, 3D-Curve
  • can be connected with a surface, 2D-Curve
  • can be the edge of a surface