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Trademarks
The truck panels project is a design study for vehicle packaging. Trucks typically
have less stringent requirements than automobiles, thus, the truck panel
provides practice in sound basic techniques applicable to any free form project.
Consider the design to be work in progress. It will not be totally complete in this
class.
Design approaches that you will be directed to take are not considered to be
universal. This mimics real life situations. As a design is reviewed by different
disciplines, various possible modeling methods are considered. The design
matures from the recommendations made by those disciplines.
Objectives
With the above in mind, parts from various industries will also appear in this
workbook, where their use effectively illustrates a process.
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Splines
Splines ÏÏÏ
Section 1
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1
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Your task in this first section is to verify the quality of existing splines and
create new ones as needed.
D Fit splines
D Evaluate splines
D Edit spline poles
D Smooth
D Combine curve projection
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Tolerance 1.0
1 Segment
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ÏÏÏ Step 4 Compare your fit spline to the existing splines in the part.
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1
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- Enable Poles, Combs, and Peaks analysis display for all seven
splines.
Constant curvature at
the ends, one peak.
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Step 5 Shape your fit spline to match the curvature comb profile
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of the six adjacent splines.
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- Use Deviation Check to assure that you do not exceed ÏÏÏ
1
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1.5Ămm variance from the input points.
- Drag only the four interior poles of your fit spline to mimic
the curvature comb structure of the provided splines
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ÏÏÏ Step 6 Create Fit splines between the end points of all seven
ÏÏÏ splines.
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1
ÏÏÏ - If you wish to hide the row of points, make layer 51 Invisible.
- Use:
Curve Degree 5
Tolerance 1.0 mm
À
Record error amounts for
future reference when you
create a curve mesh sheet.
Spline À Spline Á
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Step 7 Verify the quality of the two splines at the sides of the
ÏÏÏ
lower panel.
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You will improve the quality of
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1
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splines needed to construct
the lowest face, shown here.
Upper
Side
Side
Lower
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ÏÏÏ Step 8 Change the two side splines to single segment, degree 5,
ÏÏÏ and re-shape as required.
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1
ÏÏÏ TIP Before editing, Copy the splines to another layer, and
make that layer Visible Only. Layer 42 is empty.
- Display combs and peaks for the two splines shown above.
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Step 9 Verify that the curves form a good outline for a sheet.
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Qualities that are considered defects in our
scenario:
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1
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The spline has three peaks.
The curvature comb is slightly uneven.
- Disable (turn off) combs and peaks for the upper spline.
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To ZX
To XY
NOTE Do not move the end poles as you adjust the splines!
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In several steps you were asked not to move end points. In another step, you
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were asked to move end poles to coincide with adjacent splines.
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In the next section you will create several sheets.
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1
ÏÏÏ
Two sheets will be curve mesh surfaces using the grids of curves you developed
in this section. In these grids, your roughly horizontal" and roughly vertical"
curves meet at a common point.
You will soon learn that, although it is not essential, results are much more
predicable when corner points of grids match.
Step 16 Turn all curve analysis options OFF" for all curves.
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Primary Sheets
Primary Sheets
Section 2
Creating main or primary sheets is your next task. The truck panel
consists of four primary surfaces, built from splines you enhanced to a
smooth shape earlier. The quality of your spline smoothing work,
particularly adjacent to end points, directly affects your ability to
construct and use the primary sheets.
ÏÏÏ
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2
You will use three Free Form functions to create primary sheets:
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
D Through Curve Mesh
D Through Curves
D Swept
You will construct primary sheets in the shaded areas, using the
functions indicated.
Curve Mesh
Swept
Through
Curves
Curve Mesh
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Layer
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2
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ÏÏÏ Layer 55
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Primary 7
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Primary 2
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2
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2
Guide 1
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ÏÏÏ Section 1
Guide 2
Section 2
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Transition Sheets
Transition Sheets
Section 3
The soft blend is set back 100Ămm from the intersection of sheets À
and Á.
The fillet bridge will extend 150Ămm into the vertical" sheet and
50Ămm into the horizontal" sheet.
The fillet-rho will be variable in both lateral extent and rho. Lateral
extent changes from ~150Ămm at the left (in trimetric orientation) to
ÏÏÏ
half that on the right. Rho is ~ 0.7 at the left and 0.5 at the right.
ÏÏÏ
Free Form and Feature functions you will practice include: ÏÏÏ
3
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S Enlarge Sheet S Soft Blend
S Intersection Curves S Swept
S Free Form Section
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Modeling Strategy
Here is the procedure you will follow to meet the design intent.
ÏÏÏ
At left, original and enlarged sheets with
intersection curves. Tubular bodies will be
ÏÏÏ
3
ÏÏÏ
sheets.
Spine
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3
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TIP Did you miss Session 2?
NOTE From time to time this text will recommend layer settings.
These recommendations are intended to help you to
organize your data. They follow the standard discussed in
our course overview.
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À
Enlarge this sheet until it
intersects the full width of ...
Á
ÏÏÏ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
ÏÏÏ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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3
ÏÏÏ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
V-Min
U
50 mm ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ V
V-Max
~100 mm
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
U-Min
Extend U-Min.
almost to this edge.
Datum Datum
ÄÄÄÄ
Plane Plane
ÄÄÄÄ Before
Enlarge
After
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Â
à ÏÏÏ
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Sheet Á is slightly wider than
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3
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sheet Â.
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À
Layer 43
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3
ÏÏÏ
Á
Â
Layer 44
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3
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Settings:
Outer Diameter . . . . . . 200
Inner Diameter . . . . . . 0.0
Single Segment
Why do we use Single Segment?
NOTE It is very likely that more than one curve will result from
each intersection feature. You will need to remember this
later. You will have to use the Curve mask button as you
select strings on faces to control transition surfaces.
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Later in the course you will learn Free Form trim methods.
Target
body
Á
Trim
Direction
Trim
body
Â
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
3
ÏÏÏ Sheet  will
be trimmed to
this position
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Á
ÏÏÏ
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This edge is the
guide string
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3
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Step 9 Intersect the Outer Diameter of the tube with sheet Á and
the Inner Diameter with sheet Â.
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Normal Direction
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ÏÏÏ This curve as first object.
ÏÏÏ
Through Curve constraint will appear.
3 Á
ÏÏÏ
À
This curve again, at this end, as second object.
Through Point constraint will appear.
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3
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300 mm
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You will create the swept body in Step 12. Before you
proceed, plan your modeling strategy.
ÏÏÏ How will you control the size of the swept feature that you
ÏÏÏ create from the circle and intersection curve?
ÏÏÏ
3
ÏÏÏ Hint: Scaling Method Blending Function is probably the best
to use in this case. If the start scale factor is 1.0, what would
be the ending scale factor to reduce a dimension from 150 to
75?
Can you think of other methods?
What advantages and disadvantages apply to each method?
Discuss this with your instructor later.
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Step 12 Create a swept body using the sketched circle and the
intersection curve.
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
Section
String
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3
ÏÏÏ
Â
Guide String
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It should be apparent that the tubes and swept body do not necessarily
intersect the primary sheets across their entire width.
Datum Datum
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ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
À
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ ÏÏÏ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ ÏÏÏ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ ÏÏÏ
3
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
ÏÏÏ
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
Á
ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ
Curve on face 2
Spine
The picture above shows the soft blend, created using the
Trim & Attach All option, and the spine curve in layer 59.
It also shows the control curves left visible after unnecessary
curves were blanked.
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ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
3
ÏÏÏ Â
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ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
3
ÏÏÏ
0.7 rho
à Â
Select
Spine on
this end 0.5 rho
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N-Sided Sheets
Section 4
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4
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Step 2 Make Layer 41 Selectable to see a planar representation
of the buttons.
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Step 3 Project the outer curve along the negative Z-axis to the
surface of the sidewall panel.
Projected curve
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
ÏÏÏ Step 4 Create an N-Sided Surface on the sidewall panel using
the projected curve.
Dimple the N-Sided surface so that it has a slight protrusion
upward. To do this, create a Trimmed Single Sheet type of
N-Sided, but instead of choosing the face(s) for boundary
constraint, simply choose OK to display the Shape Control
dialog. Shape the surface so that it has a slight outward
protrusion from the sidewall surface.
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Step 5 Project the two larger inner curves along the negative
Z-axis to the newly created N-Sided surface.
Project
these
curves
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Slight outward
protrusion
Slight inward
protrusion
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
ÏÏÏ
Step 9 From the planar representation of the curves, project
each of the small innermost curves to the corresponding
button surface.
Project the curves along the negative Z-axis. These small
curves will become fine-tune" buttons on each of the larger
two buttons. They will protrude opposite of the larger button
protrusions.
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Step 10 Use the Trimmed Sheet feature to trim the two N-Sided
button surfaces with the respective projected innermost
curves.
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
Step 11 Use the newly projected curves to create two N-Sided
surfaces to represent the fine-tune" buttons.
ÏÏÏ
Create the small N-Sided surfaces using the type Trimmed
Single Sheet. With the Shape Control dialog, shape the small
button on the outwardly protruding larger button to protrude
inward. Conversely, shape the small button on the inwardly
protruding larger button to protrude outward.
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This button
should protrude
outward
ÏÏÏ
layer.
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4
ÏÏÏ Step 13 Using the Face Blend feature, blend all the button surface
edges with a 1 mm radius.
Hint: For each blend, start with the smaller surface as the first face
set.
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We will now add a bezel around the buttons to set it off from the interior
sidewall panel.
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
ÏÏÏ
- Project the outermost offset curve to the surface of the
sidewall panel. Project along the negative Z-axis.
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- Use the Trim Body feature to trim the surface of the sidewall
panel to the extruded surface. Make sure the direction vector
is pointing in the proper direction.
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4
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Guide string
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4
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The part has some small step" faces that resulted from an earlier
modeling approach the produced a major shape very efficiently.
Modeling Strategy:
Á
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
À
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À
Á Â
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
4
Ä
Ã
Ã
Å
ÏÏÏ
à Ã
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ÏÏÏ exactly 50% of the ruled width in the direction shown below:
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 Ä
Á
Á
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Â
Á Â
à Â
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À Á
- Use patch body to apply the sewn sheet to the body. Practice
choosing workable settings on your own.
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Face Analysis
Face Analysis
Section 5
In this section you will evaluate your primary and transition sheets.
One of the sheets has an unsightly bulge. Early in the design process
an engineer adjusted the sheet to make room for an interior part.
Later, we will pretend that you discuss the problem sheet in a design review.
Aesthetics will be given priority. You will be authorized to adjust the sheet. The
engineer will have to find another way to package his components!
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5
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À
Á
À
Horizontal bands in
sheet Á clearly have a
different character from Á
the other vertical"
sheet Â, and from the
adjacent transition
sheet À.
- Retain the same selection, the three faces from the previous
step.
TIP Through any point, we let "r" and "R" denote the
Minimum and Maximum radii of curvature respectively.
The Gaussian radius of curvature at that point is
rRĂ÷Ă√rR. The sign of r and R is dependent on the
direction of the face normal vector N, thus if the
Gaussian radius is negative, the surface is saddle
shaped."
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
- Try the other radius analysis types.
5
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
What Radius Type, other than Gaussian, also clearly shows
distortion in the same area?
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5
Are there any reversals of curvature in the extended sheet?
Are you sure? Use Inflections. Rotate the view. ÏÏÏ
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You will plan a strategy to make an associative cutout for the wheel.
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ÏÏÏ Step 1 Open the part ***_panels, where *** is your initials.
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Step 2 Replace the lower rail of the primary panel that has the
ÏÏÏ
bulge."
ÏÏÏ
- Make Layers 57 and 81 Selectable. ÏÏÏ
6
ÏÏÏ
Layer 57 contains a replacement guide curve for the swept
sheet in layer 81.
- Replace the lower guide curve on the swept sheet with the
spline in layer 57.
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6
ÏÏÏ
- Trim primary sheets À, Á, and  to the shaded transition
sheets:
Step 4 Use Analysis " Deviation " Edge to Edge to check the
trimmed transition sheets against the adjacent primary
sheets.
If the distance tolerance is exceeded anywhere, the sheets
will later fail to sew together.
If the angle tolerance is exceeded, the model can be
constructed, but the appearance might not be acceptable to a
stylist.
Do you anticipate problems?
There are many ways to make sheets match; rebuilding and
smoothing curves, changing tolerances, or possibly resorting
to non-parametric edge matching.
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The MB3 menu (only when the cursor is over the feature)
will have Edit Parameters...
À
Á
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D The sheet to sheet intersection used to sweep the tube"
in layer 13.
D The 2 intersections used to provide tangency control for
the section sheet.
Additionally, a designer with access to Shape Studio would
probably use a sheet called Styled Blend for most or all
transition sheets in this project.
À
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Modeling Strategy
ÏÏÏ
ÏÏÏ
The wheel opening has a thickened" lip around the cut line.
ÏÏÏ
6
ÏÏÏ
The specification calls for the section to be offset 10Ămm from the
main panel, and 20Ămm wide. It was suggested to transition to the
main panel over a further 20Ămm distance.
Here is the procedure you will follow to meet the design intent.
D Offset the primary sheet by 10Ămm, the specified lip thickness.
D A spline defines the wheel opening, at position À in the section view.
Offset this spline 20Ămm, the width of the lip, to position Á.
D Continue the offset curve operation by offsetting the first result a
further 20Ămm, the suggested transition distance, to position Â.
D Trim the offset sheet to lie between the wheel opening spline and its
first offset curve. This defines the lip.
D Trim the main panel to the second offset curve, to prepare a second
edge for the transition sheet.
D Create a transition sheet to join the trimmed offset lip with the
trimmed primary sheet.
lip
À Á
10 mm offset
Â
transition
20 mm 20 mm
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TIP Did you miss the first part of session 5?
ÏÏÏ
6
ÏÏÏ
Part mff_panels_m5 is complete to this point.
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ÏÏÏ Step 10 Use Trimmed Sheet to trim the sheets adjacent to the
ÏÏÏ wheel opening.
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6
ÏÏÏ - Use Vector Constructor, not the default method for the
Projection Along vector. Why?
Main Panel
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Step 11 Create a fillet bridge to join the main panel and offset lip
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In this section you will use a part containing the circular saw handle
surfaces you created in an earlier activity.
You will:
The manufacturer has provided the styling curves that the saw
handle surfaces should follow.
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You will add strings to the two targeted surfaces so that they
more closely match the manufacturer's styling curves.
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model to visually inspect the surface. Does it better match
the styling curves? Use the Analysis"Deviation tool.
NOTE Again make sure to select all curves that make up the
string.
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- After adding the string to the curve mesh surface, rotate the
model to visually inspect the surface. Orient the view to
Trimetric. Does the surface better match the styling curves?
In the area where the string was added, the surface now
matches the styling curves more closely; however, the surface is
still pulled away from the curves at the other end of the surface.
You will add three additional cross curves to the curve mesh to
better match the surface to the styling curves.
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After.
Cross #2
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Step 1 Open the part mff_mesh_4 and start the Modeling
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application.
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- Select the large surface as the target sheet to sew and the
remaining surfaces as the tool sheets.
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- Use the Highlight Results dialog to find any Consistency,
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Sheet Boundary, or Self Intersection problems.
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- The problem surface, where self-intersection occurs, will be
highlighted on the graphics screen and the approximate area
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NOTE Use the Cross string #1 as the Spine Curve. This will
provide a more desirable pole structure.
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Cross #2
Primary #1
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- After creating the new curve mesh, analyze the surface using
Information→B-Surface. By inspection of the pole
structure, does the new surface looks smoother in the
corner?
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Step 8 Now that the corner surface has been rebuilt, the larger
top surface must be re-trimmed around the opening.
Indicate hole
to remove
Target
surface
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Step 9 Re-trim the large top surface to the new hole edge.
- Use the Trimmed Sheet feature. Select the large top surface
as the target sheet and the hole edges shown below as the
trimming objects.
Target sheet
Trimming
objects
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Step 10 Sew the new surfaces into a solid body.
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You will mirror the sheets you have created thus far, and create a
smooth bridge across the vehicle center plane.
D Mirror Feature
D Sheet to Solid Assistant
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Thicken Sheet
Extract Face
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TIP Did you miss Session 5?
TIP Sew will quickly identify problems with sheets; this gives
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- Use Insert " Feature Operation " Instance " Mirror Body.
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R. 2 mm inside
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What surface type is created?
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What constant value will you use for the angle law? Why?
How many faces does your sheet have? Why?
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Why or why not?
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Step 11 Create an Edge Blend along the 90° bend of the bracket.
TIP With Add Tangent Edges, you need to select only one
edge.
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