NX I-deas Master Surfacing

Free form surface modeling and editing tools

Benefits Summary • Create and modify even the NX™ I-deas™ Master Surfacing is an add-on module within NX I-deas most complex geometric software that is the advanced surface modeling complement to NX I-deas shapes in an interactive, Master Modeler. It helps you quickly and easily design and iteratively modify graphical, easy-to-use complex sculptured surfaces on both solid and open parts. Master Surfacing environment provides a rich set of curve and surface creation tools for lofting, sweeping • Enable mixed creation of and blending surfaces, giving you excellent local and overall control of design intent and dimension- surface shape. Advanced fairing operations help you remove bulges and driven shapes with achieve excellent local shape control. The results are smooth, attractive and unconstrained, free form manufacturable three- shapes dimensional free form surfaces. • Fully integrated with feature- driven part history Modeling complex surfaces introduced in Master Because Master Surfacing Modeler maintains relationships • Easily modify and update between geometric entities complex shapes which could such as surface tangencies require manual re-creation in throughout the design effort, other systems you not only can create your shape but also easily make Features design changes. Once you • Design intent driven master a small set of curve and surfacing tools include: loft, surface modeling commands, sweep, variational sweep, the power of an advanced surface-by-boundary, emboss surface modeler is available to and flange you. Master Surfacing includes • Variational sweep feature a full set of construction tools allows swept cross sections for creating and manipulating to vary based on dimensions, surfaces and curves. The constraints and intersections following are some key with existing geometry capabilities: • Complete surface offset, trim, extend, wrap and Variational sweep surface unwrap capabilities NX I-deas’ Variational Sweep feature takes the “sketch-in- place” concept for planar Master Surfacing provides lofting, sweeping geometry and extends it to and blending capabilities which allow associative complex free form geometry. feature-based definition of extremely V-Sweep lets you sketch a cross complex geometry.

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Features continued section “in place” to be swept along a path • Modify surfaces by dragging points in • Free form shaping tools for while simulta-neously tracking multiple 3D space geometry that is not rails (curves or edges) for position and • Non-manifold geometry abstraction intended to be dimension- tangency control. This feature allows you tools for such operations as creating driven to create complex, varying surfaces in a internal partitions within the part model • Complex curve creation tools single step, surfaces that in other systems • Direct import of Imageware free form for three-dimensional might take an order of magnitude more surface features B-splines effort to develop. • Comprehensive surface Curve operations analysis tools Other surface operations • Fit curves through unevenly spaced • Planar, ruled and revolved surfaces points, or through a series of points on • Lofted through cross section(s) and a surface optional rails • Associative offset curves on surfaces • Swept from a cross section along a path • Tangency, curvature and inflection • Mesh from sections in two directions control • Surface-by-boundary creates n-sided • Extract curves from surface surfaces from existing curves and edges intersections, part edges or surface ISO with tangency control parametric lines • Surface-through-points – either from an • Project or wrap curves onto surfaces ordered mesh or a random cloud • Dynamic curve manipulation directly on • Emboss wireframe profile onto surfaces the curve, or from control points with optional offset and side angle control Visualization and analysis • Unwrap cylindrical, conical or With surfaces and solids created in Master tabulated surfaces Surfacing, you can use all NX I-deas • Overcrown to add curvature to a thin visualization tools including shaded Master Surfacing allows you to directly incorporate part to compensate for springback when images, hidden line processing, styled surfaces from Imageware Surfacer or other the part is stamped in a die perspective views and evaluated surface styling packages, and use them to associatively • Offset existing surfaces and keep both displays. In addition, to help you evaluate drive the feature-based design of complex the selected geometry and the new curves and surfaces, specific display components and assemblies. offset surface, or only the offset surface capabilities and evaluation tools • Extend surfaces by a fixed distance, or to are available including: a plane, or to existing surfaces to make a • Display curvature analysis via color corner between them contour or isolines of gaussian, • Trim, split, merge and stitch or maximum, minimum or principal unstitch surfaces curvature • Match a set of tangent continuous • Display vector normal to or tangent to surface edges to another set of tangent surface or curve continuous surfaces • List curvature and normal values of • Tangency control at surface boundaries surface at a point either by using an existing edge or • Analyze tangency and position at surface, or by defining tangent vectors surface/surface boundaries • Fully automatic mid-surface generation for most parts, plus additional interactive tools

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