topic Re: Surface continuity in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Surface continuity

alandmarino — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:21:34 GMT

Hi, could someone please help me with this. When using the loft command with smooth option activated, only one of the surface edges are both surface and edge continuous. Is there an option i'm missing?

Image attached.

Thank you!

Alan

Re: Surface continuity

innovatenate — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:39:31 GMT

Can you share the Fusion design?

Does it help if you modify the tangency weight?

Thanks,

Re: Surface continuity

alandmarino — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:46:15 GMT

Hi Nathan, thanks for the reply.

Yes, tengency weight affects surface smoothness but one of the two edges are still not continuous.

Here's the model: http://a360.co/29j5wa8

Thanks!!

Alan.

Re: Surface continuity

innovatenate — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 01:21:32 GMT

I'm having some difficulty with the public share link. Do you mind posting the archive file?

I was curious if a Zebra Analysis shows if the surfaces are curvature continuous...

Thanks in advance!

Re: Surface continuity

alandmarino — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 01:40:09 GMT

here a new screenshot and 3d model

Thank you!

Alan.

Re: Surface continuity

innovatenate — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 02:44:00 GMT

If you add some guide rails to the model you can get a bit more control over the edge. Check out the below screencast for more detail:

Thanks,

Re: Surface continuity

alandmarino — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:07:34 GMT

Nathan, thank you very very much. Your solution works fine.

However, it would be nice for future versions to fix this issue as is in other software packages. Maybe i should post this as a suggestion.

Thank you again!!!

Alan.