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Fill up open path
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:01 pm
by christian chu
Can someone help, pls.
I tried to fill up an open path and can't make it smooth to the side - see att. image
Thank you
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:18 pm
by matt
You mean patch? What did you try to use?
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:26 pm
by matt
The first picture is a boundary surface with curvature set at the edges. Not very good. The 2nd picture is the deviation analysis of the existing connections between faces. Pretty good where they need to be.
The 3rd picture uses a Fill surface where the open edge was closed by a 3d spline with equal curvature set on both ends.
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:47 pm
by christian chu
matt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:26 pm
The first picture is a boundary surface with curvature set at the edges. Not very good. The 2nd picture is the deviation analysis of the existing connections between faces. Pretty good where they need to be.
The 3rd picture uses a Fill surface where the open edge was closed by a 3d spline with equal curvature set on both ends.
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I already tried the 3rd option with a 3D Spline and filled surface
Still not very smooth
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:04 am
by Lucas
Here is what I got:
Boundary
Fill
I think we might need to trim something to get better results, but I don't know what is important to keep .-.
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:48 am
by matt
To make this better, I'd go back and make sure the existing surfaces are as good as possible, and then make some additional control curves.
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:30 am
by Lucas
Yep, or forget it all and just get the boundary that it fits with the guide curves. I checked what happens with Loft (forgot to use fit spline, SW in my laptop is jamming with this file)
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:34 am
by christian chu
matt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:48 am
To make this better, I'd go back and make sure the existing surfaces are as good as possible, and then make some additional control curves.
Thank you for suggestion; however, this part is already in production which I'm not sure if the existing surface can be changed
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:37 am
by christian chu
Lucas wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:30 am
Yep, or forget it all and just get the boundary that it fits with the guide curves. I checked what happens with Loft (forgot to use fit spline, SW in my laptop is jamming with this file)
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I'm still running SW2020; can't check the curvature but I can see from the att. image
Re: Fill up open path
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:19 pm
by zxys001
christian chu wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:01 pm
Can someone help, pls.
I tried to fill up an open path and can't make it smooth to the side - see att. image
Thank you
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..a few ways I'd do it..