Blend Side Blending Quick Help

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Overview

Often it is useful to have a blend which has tangency on the sides of the blends. This option allows the user to create side blends to create blends with 3 or 4 sided tangencies. It basically is the equivalent of stepping back on the surface and applying a corner blend.

Pick Side Shapes - starts a picking mode to allow you to pick one or two side curves with tangency.

Shape 1 Blend - the step back blend distance of the first side shape.

Shap3 2 Blend - the step back blend disance for the second side shape.

The following examples show picking and modifiying these parameters after an original blend has been created.


Original Blend before picking side shapes


After picking first side shape with default step back of 10%


After picking second side shape with default step back of 10%


Modification of step back to 30% for each side.