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Creating Adaptive Swept Surfaces

This task shows how to create swept surfaces that use an implicit profile
and its constraints along a guiding curve.
These swept surfaces are created based on sections along the guiding curve and
constraints that can be specified for each of these sections.

The implicit profile is a sketch and as such supports the creation of associative
sketch elements over multi-cell surfaces. This allows, when creating the swept
surface, to impose a constraint over a multi-cell surface that is used as a
construction element.
When designing the profile to be swept, keep in mind that the constraints
imposed on the sketched profile affect the resulting swept surface. For example,
with the apparently similar sketch (only its construction differs, but there is a
coincidence constraint between the sketch extremity and the point on the guiding
curve) you can obtain the following results

Sketch based on
the point (no coincidence constraint, but a
geometric superimposition)

Sketch based on the point

as the intersection of the sketch
and the guiding curve

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Sketch based on projection

of the point in 3D

Similarly, it is best to use angle constraints rather than tangency or perpendicularity

constraints, to avoid changes in the sketch orientation as it is swept along the guiding
curve. In some cases, with tangency or perpendicularity constraints, the sketch may be
inverted and lead to unsatisfactory results

Creating Laws
This command is only available with the Generative Shape Design product
This task shows how create evolution laws within a CATPart document, to be used later
on when creating Generative Shape Design elements, such as swept surfaces, or parallel
curves.

1. Click the Law icon.

The Law Definition dialog box appears.

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Select the reference line.

Select any curve

The law is computed as the distance between points on the reference line and their
matching points onto the curve

If the X parameter on definition option is checked, the X parameter is displayed on the

selected curve and represents the percentage of the curvilinear abscissa on this curve. The
law is computed by projecting the start point normally onto the reference line.

Creating the Nearest Entity of a Multiple Element

This task shows you how to create the nearest entity of an element that is made up from
several sub-elements
1. Select the Insert -> Operations -> Near command.

The Near Definition dialog box appears

Select the element that is made up from several sub-elements

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Developing Wires and Points

This task shows how to develop connex wires, and points, onto a revolution surface, that
is to create a new wire by mapping a wire's planar abscissa and ordinate with abscissa
and ordinate within a local axis-system on a surface, with respect to the surface's
curvature.
The wire can be any curve or sketch, provided it is a connex element. Therefore it cannot
be, for example, a T or H-shaped element; or any non connex shape.

About Developing Wires

There are two modes of developing on a surface

1. Develop-Develop
2. Develop-Project

the difference being in the way the points are mapped onto the revolution surface.

The following illustration shows the two developing types, based on developing the
black solid wire, the two black dotted wires representing the 1 and 2 coordinate
lengths in the wire's axis-system

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In the case of the Develop-Develop option, a given point (p) of the wire is developed on the
revolution surface by mapping its first coordinate as a curvilinear abscissa on the
revolution surface (1 into 1') up to a (p') point (represented by the light blue dotted
curve), then from that (p') point reporting the other coordinate of (p) as a curvilinear
abscissa (2 into 2') along the revolution surface (dark blue dotted curve).
The resulting developed wire is the dark blue solid curve in the illustration.
In the case of the Develop-Project option, a given point (p) of the wire is developed on the
revolution surface by mapping its first coordinate as a curvilinear abscissa (1 into 1') onto
a virtual cylinder passing through the point on support (default or user-defined), to
generate a (p') point (represented by the light blue dotted curve), reporting the other
coordinate parallely to the cylinder's revolution axis, then projecting normally from that
cylinder onto the revolution surface (dark green dotted line).
The resulting developed wire is the dark green solid curve in the illustration
As you can see, the results differ slightly, the developed curves not ending on the same
point.

1. Click the Develop icon .

The Develop Definition dialog box is displayed.

Select the wire to be developed

By default, the plane containing this wire is automatically computed. However, when the
wire is a line, you need to specify a Wire plane.

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3. Select the revolution surface onto which the wire is to be developed.

4. Click Preview.

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Creating Junctions
This task shows how to create junction surfaces between existing surfaces. These
surfaces must have been created from contours (sketches, splines, and so forth) provided
these are not closed.
Click the Junction icon .

The Junction Surface Definition dialog box is displayed.

2. Select two sections.

These can be surface boundaries or contour lying on surfaces.
Coupling curves on which the junction surface will be based are displayed between the
two sections

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3. Select another section.

New coupling curves are now displayed.

If the sections do not present the same number of vertices, the system automatically links
the coupling curves to the sections retaining the maximum number of points.
In our example, two sections present four vertices whereas the last one present only three.
The system found a solution by linking two curves to the same vertex on the last section.

Use the Sections coupling combo list to specify if the coupling lines are to connect sections
on their tangency discontinuity points (Tangency option) or on their tangency discontinuity
and curvature discontinuity points (Curvature option).

4. Click within the Coupling Point area then select a point on the section on which
you wish to redefine a new passing point for the coupling curve.

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Click Preview to preview the junction surface

Creating Bumped Surfaces

This task shows how to create bumped surfaces, by deformation of an initial surface.

Click the Bump icon .

The Bump Deformation Definition dialog

box is displayed
Select the surface to be deformed.

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3. Select the Limit curve, that is the curve delimiting the deformation area.

The limit curve needs to be lying on the surface to be deformed. If not, use the Create
Projection contextual menu on the Limit curve field to project the limit curve on the surface

4. Select the Deformation center, that is the point representing the center of the
deformation.

The deviation will be at its maximum at this point, and evolve towards the limit curve,
where it should reach 0.

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5. Select the curve indicating the Deformation direction.

The deformation is propagated along this direction. By default, the Deformation direction is
normal to the deformed element
Set the Deformation distance, that is the maximum distance, along the Deformation direction,
from the deformed surface towards the Deformation Center.
We keyed in -15mm.
Click Preview to preview the bumped surface.
Click the Add Parameters button to display further options

specify a projection direction if the Deformation Center does not lie within the
selected surface to be deformed, so that it is projected onto it.
define the continuity to be kept between the deformed area and the surface outside the
deformation area (point, tangent, or curvature continuity

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