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Overview | |||
The Pwr_Surface tool is like the
Pwr_NURBS tool in that it gives you the ability to modify parameters of many
surfaces at one time. You can modify the display settings and the
Power Surface parameters in the dialog shown above. |
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Surface Definition Type | |||
Adaptive: This
option will perform an adaptive creation of the surface to the specified
3-D Tolerance and Angle Tolerance settings specified below. |
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Surface Parameters | |||
3-D Tolerance: The
tolerance distance used to determine edge connectivity.
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Step Back Blending Options | |||
Step back blending is a fast and easy way to construct blends along breaks in discontinuity for constructed surfaces. The blends will step back along an isoperimetric curve of two adjacent surfaces. For example the sweep of a box would produce 4 edges with discontinuities. The Step-Back blending is a way to round those corners without going back and putting fillets/blends on the original shapes.
Blend None: Don't do step-back
blending. |
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Options | |||
Linear: Make a line between step
back curves. |
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Step Back Blending | |||
Step Distance %: How far relative
to the size of the object to step back from the original corner.
Note that this will be an average distance. |
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Trimming and Extending | |||
This panel allows users to step back (trim) or extend the boundaries of a surface. Note you can easily experiment with these values to determine which parameter in U or V correspond to which edges of a surface. U: Minimum and maximum U parameters for Trim/Extend.
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