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Posts Tagged ‘NURBS surfacing’

Tool entity extension in XOR’s Split Face command

By Tom Charron • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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On to the third installment of our tech tips on the Split Face command.  Did you know that XOR will automatically extend a surface if it’s too short to split another face? If you’re splitting a face by intersecting another surface, it will extend…



Splitting faces by projecting curves

By Tom Charron • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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In our second installment on the Split Face command, I’d like to point out a difference between projecting 2D sketches and 3D sketches in XOR.

Using Split Face (found under Insert>Modeling Feature>Split Face), you can project a curve onto a face (surface or solid)…



How To Create a High Quality Mesh-Fit Surface

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Advanced, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

XOR’s Boundary Fit Surfacing function helps you to easily create a surface body using boundary curves on the mesh, even if the mesh is a complex freeform shape.

This technical tip will help you understand how to create a high quality fitting surface.

Step 1:



Beginner’s Exercise: Creating High Quality Boundary Fit Surfaces

By Rob Liebert • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

Create fit surfaces by drawing a patch network on the mesh:

As you can see below, there are some cases where the trimmed surfaces will produce a bad result. Specifically, the “Tangent Constraint On Boundary” option, which uses mesh normals to match



White Paper: 3rd Generation Reverse Engineering

By Tom Charron • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Product News

We’ve put together a white paper outlining the techniques and advantages of what we call third-generation reverse engineering. Click here to download a copy…