shade settings

[KCollins]

does making a change to the chord height in the shading settings have any effect on say creating a curve on the edge of a surface? or is it merely for visual accuracy. I have a huge file (engine block) that errors out when i try and shade it if i dont increase the chordal value...i just want to make sure i'm not going to cause any problems with using the model for machining

[crazy^millman]

No it has nothing to do with the Model all visual and what the graphics card has to do to show it on the Screen.

 

HTH

[KCollins]

thank you much...thats what i thought but didn't want to get two weeks into the program and have a big aw shucks to take care of

[crazy^millman]

nope I always turn mine way up on big models just to keep the computer from bogging down.

[chip]

Someone Steel my engine!

 

 

[Gilberto]

Sometimes errors on shading came from bad surfaces...

Test surfaces with "check model" and "small surfaces"

[KCollins]

well i did figure out what my issue was...and believe or not it wasn't a memory error per say. My model was scaled wrong. Metric Numbers in Inch scale. Therefore all my deviations for shading and spline conversion tolerance were about 4% of what they should be. Shink the model and its amazing how everthing works just ducky now.