Surface Modeling in SW

Starting with a sketch, you can

create a surface using Extrude,
Revolve, Loft, Boundary Surface,
planar, and Fill.

Open sketch
(spline)

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Profile

Extrusion direction

Axis of rotation

Revolved surface
Extruded surface
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Swept surface using

a Guide
Guide

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Guide 2

Loft surface, no
guide curve

Guide 1

Loft surface using two

guide curves.

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Surface Modeling in SW- Boundary Surface

Four curves defining the boundary of the surface, Coons surface
Make sure all curves are intersecting, then
select curves for directions 1 and 2
Sketch5,
Direction 1

Sketch2,
Direction 2

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Sketch1,
Direction 2

Open loop
3D sketch,
Direction 1
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Boundary surface

Direction 2

Direction 2
Direction 2

The order of direction has no

effect on the surface shape
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Direction 2

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Direction 1

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Direction 1

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Boundary Surface option using profiles and directions. This results in the
same surface as Loft, smoother surface appearance.

Direction 1
Direction 2

Direction 2
Direction 1
Direction 1

Single curve to a point

in one direction
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Surface Modeling in SW- Fill Surface

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Surface Modeling in Unigraphics (NX)

Through Curves option

This command creates a sheet or solid
body through a set of up to 150 section strings.
A section string can consist of a single object
or multiple objects, and each object can be a
curve, a solid edge, or a solid face. Through
Curves is similar to a Ruled Surface, except
that you can specify more than two section
strings.

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Desired curve sections

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Through Curve option

This command creates a body from sets

of primary and cross strings. Strings in each
set must be roughly parallel to each other and
non-intersecting. Primary strings must be
roughly perpendicular to crossing strings

Primary strings

Cross strings

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N-Sided Surface option
This option lets you build a surface
with an unrestricted number of curves or
edges that form a simple, open or closed
loop, and assign continuity to outside
faces. You can remove holes in surfaces
that are not four-sided. Shape control
options are available to refine sharpness at
center point, while maintaining continuity
constraints.

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Sample of a Multiple Triangular

Patch Surface

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You can use the Section option to construct
bodies through sections that you define using
conic construction techniques.
You can think of a section free form feature as
an infinite family of section curves lying in
prescribed planes, starting and ending on, and
passing through, certain selected control
curves. Additionally, the system obtains conic
end slopes directly from the control curves, and
uses a continuous 2D conic shape parameter to
vary the fullness of the sections along the body.
A typical application for using a section free form feature would be in the design of
an aircraft fuselage. The control curves would run along the top and along the
side of the fuselage, and the section curves would lie in planes perpendicular to
the centerline.
Another example would be in creating an automobile body panel design, where
you know the start and end edges and slopes, and a smooth curve without
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Section Body Dialog Options
endsapexshoulder

The feature starts on the first curve selected, passes through an interior
curve known as the shoulder curve, and ends on the third curve. The slope at
each end is defined by a selected apex curve. See ends-apex-shoulder for details.

endsslopesshoulder

The feature starts on the first curve selected, passes through the shoulder
curve, and ends on the third curve. Slopes are defined at the start and end by two
independent slope control curves. See ends-slopes-shoulder for details.

filletshoulder

The feature starts on the first curve selected, is tangent to the first body
selected, ends on the second curve, is tangent to the second body, and passes
through the shoulder curve. See fillet-shoulder for details.

threepoints-arc

Lets you create a section free form feature by selecting a starting edge
curve, an interior curve, an end edge curve, and a spine curve. See three-pointsarc for details.

endsapex-rho

The feature starts on the first curve selected and ends on the second curve.
The slope at each end is defined by a selected apex curve. The fullness of each
conic section is controlled by the corresponding rho value. See ends-apex-rho for
details.

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Use the Studio Surface
command to create swept or lofted surfaces
from a network of section strings, or a network of section strings and up to
three guide strings.

Section string (1), guide strings (2), and

resulting studio surface

Three section strings and

resulting studio surface

You can modify a Studio Surface without rebuilding it by adding, removing,

reordering, or swapping section and guide strings. Studio Surface also lets
you specify constraining faces and continuity, edit surface alignment points,
and control the transitions between surface sections.
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