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Parting Lines 101: How to Get Those Pesky Meshes to Trim

By Rob Liebert • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Tech Tips

If you’ve ever had to manufacture a really complex, organic shape, you may have wanted to split the model along a parting line for machining. Well, this can be a very tough job without a very powerful tool, plus a little guidance. Luckily,…

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Creating parting lines on CAD solids or NURBS surface models

By Tom Charron • May 11th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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Rapidform XOR has a pretty cool command called Split Face. It can be used for several different purposes, and one of them is to generate parting lines after you’ve created a CAD model from scan data.

Using Split Face to create parting lines

1) Go…

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