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Building a rounding surface |
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To build a rounding surface, use the Rounding surface 
command.
Step-by-step instructions
1.Specify the first face or a set of faces of the solid/surface. The name of the object is displayed in the Surface 1 field in the Main section on the Parameter toolbar.
Activate the Surface 2 field and specify the second surface.
To the right of the field with the object name there is Change direction 
button. Using it, you can change the building direction relative to the normal to the specified surface to the opposite direction.
2.If needed, enable the Select tangent faces option. In this case, faces smoothly joined or tangent to the specified faces will also be involved in the building.
3.Assign a guide line, along which the rounding surface will be built, in section Design. The guide line determines the position of the section plane: at each point of the guide line, the section plane is perpendicular to it. A curve or chain of curves can be specified as the guiding line. The name of the object is displayed in the Guide line field. To learn more, see section Movement by line in the description of the conical section surface.
After you specify the guiding line on the screen, a phantom of the rounding surface with default parameters will appear. The direction of building the surface along the guiding line can be changed to the opposite by clicking Change direction of surface design 
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4.Specify the rounding surface parameters in the Rounding section on the Parameter panel.
•Select method of defining surface rounding boundaries. The controls for editing parameters of the Width group are used for this purpose. More details about methods for establishing rounding boundaries...
•Select mating conditions and section shape of rounding surface in group Mating. More details about the mating rounding surface and the shape of the section...
•Set the shape and position of the lateral edges of the rounding surface using the group of controls Lateral edges. More details about controlling the shape and position of the lateral edges...
5.By default, the rounding surface is built with splitting, the number of transverse edges and the position of their vertexes are determined by the system. At this time, option Split to edges is enabled on the Parameters toolbar. Switch it off in order to build a rounding surface without splitting.
6.To check a surface for self–intersections, please enable the Self-intersection check option. If any self–intersections are detected, a corresponding message will appear on the screen. More details about surface self-intersection...
7.It's available to assign the name of the rounded surface and its display properties using the controls in the Properties section. More about the management of color and optical properties of objects...
8.To complete the operation, click Create object 
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In the graphical area, the created surface appears, and in the Design tree — its icon .
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If building produces several rounding surfaces instead of one, then the process of changing surfaces set automatically starts after the building process. Select the surfaces that you want to keep. Details... Each of the resulting surfaces is a separate object. It's available to independently change their colors, hide them or move them into layers. But they will be registered as created by one feature, i.e. they will all change in case you edit the building feature. |
9.To complete operation of the command, click Finish 
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Tips
To set the linear parameters, you can use the commands of the geometrical calculator.
See Also
