HOW TO PRODUSE SURFACE CURVE

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Hi ,All!

It may be strange , but I want to find the easy way to draw the

surface curve ,cause I need it for the

map C-Hook .

The only way I found was to create-curve-intersect

and in options to check surface curve.

It is not an easy way.

May be somebody knows another ,more easy one?

 

Regards,

Iskander.

[cadcam]

If you are talking the actuall curve and not the edge?

Have you tried "Create" "Curve" "Project" this will take a straght line and project it on to the surface?

[Allan]

Plasttav, I believe you are refering to the entity type that is created. Splines Vs. Surface Curves. I normaly change from the create curve cont prm options. To surface curves then backup and create curve all edges and pick my surface.

 

Allan

[cadcam]

Good one Allen, I forgot about that.

I had someone here on Friday teaching them Mastercam and this was one thing I was pointing out to him. Is there are several ways to skin the cat in this software.

 

Just in drilling he was amazed.

He is an Ex-Gibbs user.

 

JM2C

 

[ 02-03-2002, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: cadcam ]

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Hello ,Cadcam!

I am talking about an actual surface curve.

If you run the flatsrf C-Hook you will get only the outer conture of the surface and to get the inner one you must use C-Hook map ,which works only with real surface curves not NURBS splines,

nor parametric splines or lines and arcs.

You are right:

"Create" "Curve" "Project" is o.k.and slice and partline also but may be you know about the simple way to built the surface curve from stretch.

The client gives you surfaces and how can you build the surface curve without intersection or project?

May be with some C-Hook ?

To convert surface curve to spline there is con2spl C-hook ,but may be some reverse C-Hook.

BTW what is a geometric representation for surface curve ?

 

Iskander.

[Kenneth Potter]

Surface curve Flowline

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Hi ,Allan !

Thank you a lot.

Worked like charm.

I hadn`t know about parameter to check in const.prm .That`s why I`ve got spline all the

time.

A lot of thanks to all you guys for your answers.

 

Iskander.