Creating Surfaces - Creating a Point-Aligned Surface

Creating Surfaces - Creating a Point-Aligned Surface

Creating a Point-Aligned Surface

 

RevWorks creates a point-aligned surface from a set of digitized 3D points. The point -aligned surfaces are square surface patches aligned to the vector created from the first two digitized points. These surfaces are smooth, best-fit surfaces over the set of collected data. RevWorks does not compensate surfaces or 3D points even if probe compensation is activated.

To Create a Point-Aligned Surface

  1. Select an existing plane that approximates the orientation of the surface patch being digitized.

    Note: If you do not pre-select a plane DirectSurf attempts to determine the best plane from the actual data collected. This can produce unexpected results if the data you collect is weighted towards one side of the patch rather than being evenly distributed.

  1. From the RevWorks toolbar, select ,
    or from the RevWorks toolbar right click on any displayed Surface icon and choose Point Aligned,
    or select     Surface > 2 Point Aligned from the RevWorks menu in SOLIDWORKS.

RevWorks will open a 3D sketch for the points and prompts you to begin digitizing points.

  1. First, digitize the two points on the surface which make up the axis with which you want to align the surface; then, begin digitizing other points, which make up the surface.

    Note: RevWorks allows you to utilize single point or scan point data collection modes to capture surface data.

  1. Digitize a well-distributed set of points over the entire surface you would like to capture.

    Note: The digitized 3D points are shown as they are captured in the SOLIDWORKS 3D sketch.

  1. Once you have collected the surface points, select or another completion option to calculate the feature.

RevWorks generates a square point-aligned surface from the collected data and places it into the SOLIDWORKS model space.

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