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Spline on Surface

Splines sketched on surfaces include standard spline attributes, as well as the following capabilities:

  • Add and drag points along the surface.

  • Generate a preview that is automatically smoothed through the points.

  • Span multiple surfaces if the splines that created the surfaces are tangent.

All spline points are bounded to the surface on which they are sketched.

Use splines on surfaces with:

  • Part and mold design, where surface splines enable you to create more visually accurate parting lines or transition lines.

  • Complex sweeps, where surface splines facilitate creating guide curves bounded to surface geometry.

To sketch a spline on a surface:

  1. Open a sketch on a surface model.

  2. Click Spline on Surface (Sketch toolbar) or Tools, Sketch Entities, Spline on Surface.

  3. Sketch a spline on surface.

  Splines need not extend from profile to profile.

  1. Click OK .

Related Topics

Relations with Splines

Adding controls to splines

Editing splines



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