How to smooth the surface's boundary? 1

[cforall]

My question is: How to smooth the surface's boundary via erasing its vertices without making any obvious changes to the surface's original construction? By following its curvature to extrapolate the surface then drawing smooth curve to split it?

TIA!

 

[DaSalo]

I think your method sounds like a good one. You can extract the boundary, create a point set on the extracted curves, and then create a spline through those points using a tangency constraint on each point with a reference to the original boundary extraction. That should give you a smooth curve that follows the original boundary very closely. Then you can use that curve as a splitting element. You might need to project it onto the surface first before you can use it to split.

CATIA V5 R20
PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

 

[Azrael]

I believe there is a dedicated feature for that, don't remember the name nor the workbench... anyone?? Have to come back to you with that when I had a chance to check

 

[Azrael]

Yepp... found it... and also remembered why it was hard to find It's in healing assistant workbench and is called "face smooth" but it is actually a face boundary smooth.

 

[cforall]

It's Great! Many Thanks!

 

[Joblack]

I always use "Boundary" to get the particular edge curve then use "Curve Smooth" on the extracted curve with the "Continuity" set to "Curvature" always get a nice clean operation off of that.

 

[DaSalo]

Wow, quickly becoming aware of all kinds of functionality I do not have access to. I don't have curve smooth or the Healing Assistant workbench. I'm limited to doing stuff like this with nothing more than points, planes, lines, splines and the basic sweep and multi-section surface tools. What configuration would generally give this functionality?

CATIA V5 R20
PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

 

[KevinDeSmet]

"Wow, quickly becoming aware of all kinds of functionality I do not have access to."
Welcome to the life of a CATIA user in industry!

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[Joblack]

YM1 & YM2 have the Healing Assistant workbench which has the Curve Smooth tool.