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Numerics
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1st moment 551
2nd moment 551
3D curve
- creating from planar
curves 205
3-sided surfaces 266
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A
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adding
- CAD package presets 58
- points to a curve 162
- text comments to an object 48
adjust intersection 172
- common uses 173
- options 175
- workflow 172
adjust weight 164
align 85
- creating continuity with 85
- editing construction
history 87
- options 88
align by project option 92
align hull
- options 317
align mesh 314
- limitations 314
- options 315
aligning
- closed objects 88
- curves and surfaces 85
- hulls to a plane 316
- several surfaces 314
- with partial joins 92
angle
- drawing a line at an 147
- measuring between three
points 370
angle locators
- editing 371
- true or projected 372
angle measure 369
- parameters 371
angular measurements
- adding 370
angular units 62
Anim sweep
- options 263
anim sweep 261
animated curves
- sweeping 261
annotate 367
- parameters 368
annotating
- a model 367
annotations
- adding 367
- editing 367
arc (three point) 152
arc length measure 403
arc tangent to curve 155
arc(two point) 152
arcs
- drawing concentric 155
- drawing keypoint 152
- drawing tangent 155
area 551
Attach 96
attach hardness option 92
attaching objects 96
attributes
- for keypoint arcs 156
- for keypoint lines 147
- of keypoints 168
Auto Range option 502, 537
Auto Recalc option 546
auto trim option
- in tubular offset 119
Auto-Range option 533
autotrace 139
- curves from image plane 139
- options 140
Axis option 554
axis option 113
Axis Usage X/Y/Z option 537
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B
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basic information
- about an object 50
Bevel
- options 286
bevel 285
beveling
- surfaces 285
birail 251
- continuity table 256
- editing construction
history 252
- options 253
- using to create ridges and
grooves 118
blend 293
blend attach type 97
Blend Bias option 99
blend control options
- for curve fillets 208, 209
- for surface fillets 290, 292
blend curve toolbox 408
blend curves
- changing degree 426
- changing parameterization
type 427
- constraints 408
- drawing 411
- editing 414
- introduction to 408
- moving constraints 415
- reversing master and
slave 416
- using the tangent
manipulator 420
BlendCrv toolbox
- displaying 410
BlendCrv Tools
- Blend curve create 411
- Blend Curve Degree
- 1,2,3,5,7 426
- Blend curve edit 414
- Constraint Continuity
- G0-G4 422
- Constraint Curvature Type
- Geometric 424
- Parametric 424
- Constraint Direction Type
- parallel 418
- Constraint Direction type
- directed 418
- Constraint Edits
- Blend constraint delete 414
- Blend constraint
dissociate 414
- Blend pt make master 414
- Constraint Interpolation
Direction
- interp direction 418
- interp location 418
- interp. geometry 418
BlendCrv tools
- curve knot spacing
- chord 426
- uniform 426
blended surface
- between sets of
boundaries 293
blending
- between surfaces
boundaries 293
- boundaries to create
surface 268
boolean operations
- intersection 344
- performing on shells 344
- preparing surfaces for 341
- subtraction 344
- tips on 345
- union 345
boundaries
- building continuous surface
from four 268
- building fillet surface
between sets of 293
- building surfaces from 266
Boundary 266
Bounded option 554
break curve at inflections 213
break curve at keypoint 211
breaking
- construction history 46
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C
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CAD construction presets
- setting site-wide 59
CAD package
- adding presets for 58
- setting options for transfer
to 58
center adjust options 279, 282
centroid 551
change degree option 195, 196,
339
changing
- continuity of constraints 422
- curvature type of
constraints 424
- CVs multiplicity 165
- display precision 53
- grid spacing 30
- the projection vector 321
- the type of a constraint 418
- weight of CVs 164
checking
- for curves intersection 175
Chord Ht Ratio option 110
chord-length
- parameterization 11
circles 72
- drawing keypoint 153
circular arc 152
circular extension 106
circular fillets
- between curves 207
- between surfaces 288
class-A surfaces
- creating from clouds, 460
clay model
- integrating changes from 346
claymate 346
- offset function 347
- parameters 349
- terminology 346
- workflow 346
close 101
- options 102
closed objects
- opening 101
closing
- open objects 101
closing objects
- with Attach 96
clouds
- min/max deviation from a
surface 392
- using to build class-A
surfaces, 460
collar
- options 307
collar surfaces 301
- creating 303
color ramp 524
- creating a diagnostic 525
combine curves 205
- options 206
combine surfaces 308
- how it works 309
- options 310
- tolerances 309
combining
- several surfaces 308
- two planar curves into a 3D
curve 205
- two shells 345
composite
- keypoint curves 212
concentric
- drawing keypoint arcs 155
concentric arc 155
cone 72
- options 76
Connect attach type 98
connected lines
- drawing 144
constraints
- changing continuity of 422
- changing curvature type
of 424
- changing type 418
- deleting 416
- detaching from geometry 415
- direction 409, 418
- parallel and directed 419
- geometry 409, 419
- location 409, 418
- on blend curves 408
- moving 415
construction history 46
- breaking 46
- deleting 46, 47
- editing 47, 52
- editing in align 87
- editing in birail 252
- editing in N-sided 279
- editing in Revolve 234
- editing in Round 298
- editing in Square 269
- editing in Swept 244
Construction options 58
construction planes 38
- alternate coordinate
system 38
- creating free 39
- creating relative to
geometry 40
- creating three-point 42
- deleting 42
- editing 42
- perspective window behavior
in 39
- toggling 42
- types of 38
- using manipulator 40
continuity 85
- between a curve and curve
intersection 185
- between curve and
surface 183
- changing at constraints 422
- create with align 85
- creating with birail 256
- creating with N-sided 281
- creating with Square 271
- curvature 24, 91, 503
- definition of 23
- G3 and G4 24
- in curve networks 440, 442
- positional 23, 89
- setting tolerances 63
- tangent 23, 90
- types of 23
Continuity option 474
Continuity to Adjacent Surface(s)
option 473
contours
- curves on surface along 542
Control Panel 480
- shelf area 483
- showing and hiding object
features 486
- using to rebuild objects 485
control vertices 8
- definition 8
converting
- rational surfaces to non-
rational 336
- to uniform parameterization
- curves 192
- surfaces 336
coordinate system
- construction planes 38
- world space 38
copying
- curves 202
- with an offset 114
corner surfaces
- building rounded 295
Corners tool 472
create CoS option
- in tubular offet 119
Create Guidelines option 131
Create History option 469, 546
Create locator 365
Create Trimmed Surface
option 475
creating
- a curve through
intersections 215
- curves from isoparms 202
- faces 224
- fillet between curves 207
- fillet between surfaces 288
- free construction planes 39
- geometric primitives 72
- geometry construction
plane 40
- new curves 128
- offset copy 114
- point locators 365
- rational geometry 65
- text 77
Criteria option 533
cross sections 499
- at fixed steps 499
- creating 535
- dynamic 538
- fitting curves to 137
- from picked curves 500
Cube 72
curvature 503, 523
- changing type at
constraints 424
- curves on surface from 541
- definition of 12
- finding areas of high
curvature 526
- finding discontinuities in
- 376
- geometric 424
- how to modify 378
- measuring minimum and
maximum 548
- measuring on curves 376
- measuring on surfaces 382
- on cross sections 504
- on isoparms 503
- parametric 424
- ranges of 379, 380, 385
Curvature button 539
curvature continuity
- aligning with 91
- definition of 24
Curvature properties
locators 382
- creating 383
- display 382
- editing 385
- parameters 386
- showing detailed combs 384
- showing information about a
point 384
- uses 382
Curvature Scale option 93
Curvature Type option 528,
545
Curvature Type options 549
Curvature Value option 545
Curve Break Connection
option 115
Curve curvature locators 376
- creating 377
- display 377
- editing 378
- options 381
- parameters 379
- uses 376
Curve Cutting Radius
option 116
Curve editor 178
- manipulator 178
- parameters 179
- using the 178
curve intersection
- checking 175
curve locators
- creating 365
Curve Loop Cutting option 116
curve network toolbox 433
curve networks
- adding and subtracting
curves 439
- continuity 440, 442
- creating 435
- editing 443
- overview 430
- picking 437
- rebuilding 437
- sculpt curves 445, 449
- terminology 431
- troubleshooting 452
- valid topology 431
Curve Offset Plane option 115
curve on surface
- drawing with edit points 134
Curve planarize 198
- options 199
Curve precision tool 53
Curve section 215
- options 218
curves
- adding points to 162
- adding to/subtracting from a
curve network 439
- aligning 85
- auto-tracing on an image
plane 139
- blend curves 408
- building surfaces from
boundary 266, 268
- changing degree 195, 196
- constructing quality 15
- converting to uniform
parameterization 192
- creating 128
- creating from cross
sections 535
- creating from isoparms 202
- creating guidelines on 36
- creating through
intersections 215
- degree 11
- deleting segments on 214
- detaching at inflection
points 213
- digitizing 142
- display of 130
- drawing perpendicular or
tangent 129
- drawing with CVs 129
- drawing with edit points 128
- duplicating 202
- editing with the Curve
editor 178
- extending 105
- extruding 237
- filleting 207
- fitting to cross-sections 137
- flattening onto a plane 198
- joining to keypoint
curves 168
- line-arc composite 150
- making continuous with
curve intersection 185
- making continuous with
surfaces 183
- making intersect 172
- making tangent at an
angle 186
- mapping onto surface 322
- matching parameterization
on 192
- mathematical
representation 4
- measuring curvature 376
- measuring length of 403
- min/max deviation
between 391
- min/max deviation from a
surface 392
- offseting 114
- parametric representation 5
- projecting onto a point
cloud 466
- rebuilding 190
- reducing spans 190
- removing multi-knots on 192
- reshaping 170
- reversing 120
- sectioning 215
- at a parameter or
distance 216
- at intersections with other
objects 215
- sketching freehand 132
- smoothing 112
- snapping to 35
- stretching 170
- sweeping 241
- sweeping along two
paths 251
- sweeping animated 261
curves on surface
- along a contour 542
- creating at surface
intersections 320
- creating by projecting
curves 321
- creating from criteria 540
- definition of 22
- drawing 134
- drawing freehand 135
- from geometry mapping 322
- from horizon line 542
- ignoring dashed 332
- on curvature lines 541
- on highlights 540
- trimming with 329
cutting
- keypoint curves 211
CVs
- aligning rows of 316
- changing weight 164
- drawing curves with 129
- moving 495
- multiplicity 9
- showing and hiding 486
Cylinder 72
cylinder
- options 76
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D
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dashed
- curves on surface 332
Decay Degree option 94
Default Continuity option 434
degree
- changing 195, 196, 339
- changing on blend curves 426
- comparison and
characteristics 11
- definition of 5
degree 1 geometry
- converting to degree 3 108
Del guidelines 37
Del locators 362
Delete curve segment 214
deleting
- a curve segment 214
- blend curves constraints 416
- construction history 46, 47
- construction planes 42
- guidelines 37
- locators 364
Detach 100
- options 100
detaching
- blends curves from
geometry 415
- curves at inflection
points 213
detaching objects 100
Detailed tool 472
deviation
- measuring min and max 391
- showing numeric values 521
Deviation Measure 388
- creating 388
- editing 389
- parameters 389
Deviation Table command 521
diagnostic shading 488
- modes 489
diameter
- measuring 373
Diameter Measure 373
Digitize 142
digitized data
- using to reshape surfaces 347
digitizing
- curves 142
- from a real drawing 143
digitizing tablet
- mapping to window 142
- using to create curves 142
Direct Modeling control
panel 480
direction
- constraint on blend
curves 409
Direction X,Y,Z options 532
Display normals and tangents
options 122
Display option 528
Display precision
- changing 53
Display Tgls
- Locators 362
displaying
- CV weights 164
dissociating
- blend curves 415
distance
- measuring between two
points 369
- sectioning curves based
on 216
distance locators
- display 371
- editing 371
- true or projected 372
Distance Measure 369
distance measure
- parameters 371
Distance of extension 107
dividing
- surfaces into pieces 331
double-horizon texture
shading 494
Draft 301
- options 306
- three uses of the tool 301
- using the angle/distance
manipulator 304
- using the pull direction
manipulator 304
draft angle
- changing with
manipulator 397
- measuring 395
- specifying value 401
Draft properties 395
- adding locator for 396
- concept 395
- display of locator 395
- editing 398
- parameters and options 400
- showing information about a
point 397
- using the manipulator 397
- using the tolerance
option 399, 401
draft surfaces 301
- creating 302
Draft tools
- common options 306
Drag keypoints 167
drawing
- blend curves 411
- curves 128
- curves on surface 134
- keypoint arcs and circles 152
- keypoint circles 153
- keypoint ellipses 157
- keypoint lines 144
- line-arc composite curves 150
- polylines 144
- single key lines 144
- three-point arcs 152
- two-point arcs 153
Duplicate curve 202
- options 203
duplicating
- curves 202
dynamic cross sections 538
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E
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edges
- extending 105
Edit comment 48
edit points
- aligning 87
- definition 8
- drawing curve on surface
with 134
- drawing curves with 128
- inserting 103
- inserting at intersections 215,
323
editing
- annotation locators 367
- blend curves 414
- construction history 47, 52
- construction planes 42
- Curvature properties
locators 385
- Curve curvature locators 378
- curves 178
- Deviation Measure 389
- distance and angle
locators 371
- Draft properties 398
- keypoint attributes 167
- locators 363
- radial locators 374
Ellipse 157
- options 158
ellipses
- drawing keypoint 157
End option 502
End Tangents options 110
evaluation map shading 490
Evaluation Type options 543
EvalViewer 462
Explicit option 89
Extend 105
- options 106
extending
- Round edge fillet 298
extending edges 105
Extra CV Rows option 94
Extrapolate extension 107
Extrude 237
- options 238
extruding
- curves 237
- with a beveled edge 285
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F
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faces
- creating 224
- definition of 25, 224
- display of 224
- representing with trimmed
surfaces 224
fillet
- between surface curves 289
- between two points on
curves 208
- with specific radius 207, 288
- with variable radius 296
Fillet curves 207
- options 209
Fillet surfaces 288
- options 291
filleting
- between curves 207
- between surfaces 288
- edges 295
Fit attach type 97
Fit B-spline 108
- options 109
Fit Curve 137
- options 137
Fit Surface To option 474
Fit Type options 109
fitting
- curves to cross sections 137
fitting tolerances
- setting 63
Fixed Intersection option 91
flange surfaces 301
- creating 303
flattening
- curves onto a plane 198
fractional units
- typing 59
Free Intersection option 91
freeform fillet
- creating between curves 208
- creating between
surfaces 289
freehand drawing
- curves 132
- curves on surface 135
funnel
- creating surface shaped as
a 243
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G
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G0-G4
- definitions 422
generation curves
- in Birail 253
Geom button 539
geometric curvature
- on blend curves 424
geometry
- constraint on blend
curves 409
- construction planes relative
to 40
- detaching constraints
from 415
- rational and non-rational 13
Geometry mapping 320
- options 327
Geometry option 501
Grid preset 30
- options 34
grid settings
- saving between sessions 32
Grid spacing 30
- options 33
grid spacing
- changing the 30
- resetting 31
- setting default 31
Gridded tool 471
grids
- snapping to 35
- turning off display of 32
grooves
- creating with Tubular
offset 117
guidelines 36
- deleting 37
- maximum number 37
- placing points with 36
- setting maximum number 37
- toggling 36
- working with 36
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helical surface
- creating a 243
high curvature
- adding edit points in regions
of 191
highlights 530
- curves on surface on 540
history
- of splines 4
horizon line
- curves on surface from 542
Horizon Type option 546
horizontal highlights
shading 492
Hull precision tool 54
hulls
- aligning to a plane 316
- showing and hiding 486
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I
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IGES entities
- for keypoint curves 154
image plane
- auto-tracing 139
implied tangency
- in Birail 257
- in Square 272
implied tangent 442
importing
- point clouds 462
inertia 551
inflection points
- detaching curves at 213
- finding 376
inflections
- finding 527
information
- obtaining
- with the Query tool 50
Initial Projection option 469
Insert 103
Insert at Param option 92
inserting
- edit points at
intersections 215, 323
- points and isoparms 103
integrating
- changes from clay model 346
Intersect 319
- options 324
intersecting
- surfaces 320
- two shells 344
intersection
- checking curve 175
- creating between curves 172
intersections
- creating a curve through 215
- creating curves on surface
at 320
- inserting edit points 323
- inserting edit points at 215
- sectioning curves at their 215
isoparms
- creating curves from 202
- definition of 19
- inserting 103
- showing and hiding 486
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J
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Jack 72
Join curves 211
Join Parameter option 93
joining
- keypoint curves 211
- normal and keypoint
curves 168
joints
- creating with surface
Blend 294
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K
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Keep which region option 465
keypoint arcs
- attributes 156
- drawing 152
- drawing concentric to an
arc 155
- drawing tangent to
curves 155
keypoint attributes 168
- editing 167
keypoint circles
- drawing 153
keypoint curves
- composite 212
- cutting and joining 211
- definition 17
- drawing alternating lines and
arcs 150
- exported as IGES 154
- joining to normal curves 168
keypoint ellipses
- drawing 157
keypoint lines
- drawing 144
- drawing at an angle to
curve 147
- drawing parallel to curve 146
- drawing perpendicular to
curve 149
- drawing tangent to
curves 148
- relationship attributes 147
keypoint tools
- using guidelines 36
keypoints
- moving 167
Knee ratio option 209, 292
Knot Insertion option 99
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L
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labelling
- introduction 362
length
- measuring curve 403
- measuring surface 403
Light Direction option 544
Light Origin option 544
Light Spacing option 544
Light Width option 544
limitations
- of NURBS 22
- on CV weights 164
- on multiplicity 165
Line 144
line
- drawing at an angle 147
- drawing parallel 146
Line at angle 146
Linear extension 106
linear geometry
- converting to cubic 108
linear measurements
- adding 369
linear units 61
Line-arc 150
line-arc keypoint curves 150
lines
- drawing perpendicular 149
- drawing tangent 148
location
- constraint on blend
curves 409
Locators
- Deviation measures
- Draft properties 395
locators 362
- angle 370
- annotation 367
- changing properties of 366
- curve curvature 376
- deleting 364
- deviation 388
- diameter 373
- distance 369
- draft properties 395
- editing 363
- min/max deviation 391
- moving 363
- point 365
- radius 373
- surface curvature 382
- toggling 364
- toggling in selected
windows 366
- uses 365
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M
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making
- curves continuous wih
surfaces 183
- curves continuous with curve
intersections 185
manipulator
- in blend curves 420
- in Draft 304
- in Draft properties 397
- in Project tangent 185
- in Revolve 234
- in Square 269
- on construction planes 40
- on primitives 73
- on the Curve editor 178
mapping
- curves onto surface 322
- tablet to window 142
Mass properties 550
matching
- curves parameterization 192
- parameterization on
surfaces 335
Max Spans Factor option 116
maximum curvature 548
Maximum Iterations
option 469
measuring
- angle 370
- arc length 403
- curve curvature 376
- deviation between curves 388
- diameter 373
- distance 369
- draft angle 395
- introduction to 362
- min/max deviation 391
- radius 373
- surface curvature 382
Merge 464
Merge option 107
Min./Max. Threshold
options 498
min/max deviation
- between a curve and a
surface 392
- between a surface and a
cloud 392
- between curves 391
- between surfaces 391
Min/Max Deviation
Measures 391
- parameters 393
minimum curvature 548
MinMax CrvSrf deviation 391
MinMax deviation 391
MinMax SrfSrf deviation 391
modeling
- modes 64
- tolerances 63
modeling options
- setting 58
Modify Both option 89
Modify First option 89, 90
Modify Second option 89, 91
Move Both option 90
Move CV tool 495
Move First option 90
Move locator 362
Move project vector 321
Move Second option 90
moving
- keypoints 167
- locators 363
multi-knots
- definition 9
- removing from curves 192
- removing from surfaces 335
Multiplicity 165
multiplicity
- changing 165
- limitations 165
- of CVs 9
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New curve 128
- options 130
New curve on surf 134
- options 135
non-rational geometry 13
non-rational surfaces
- converting to rational 336
normals
- definition 20
- orienting toward/away from
a point 121
- projecting curves along 322
- reasons for reorienting 121
- reversing 120
N-sided 278
- editing construction history
in 279
- options 280
- using continuity table 281
n-sided surfaces 278
Num option 505
Number of Lights option 544
Number of radial sections
option 537
Number option 539
NURBS
- definition of 7
- limitations 22
- surfaces 18
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O
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objects
- rebuilding 485
Offset 114
- options 115
offsetting
- objects 114
- surfaces with continuity 347,
348
open objects
- closing 101
opening
- closed objects 101
Options 97, 267
Orient surfaces option 122
Orientation point option 122
origin inertia 551
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P
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parallel
- drawing a line 146
Parallel line 146
parameter
- sectioning curves based
on 216
parameterization
- changing on blend curves 427
- chord-length 11
- converting curves to
uniform 192
- converting surfaces to
uniform 336
- definition of 10
- matching on curves 192
- matching on surfaces 335
- uniform 11
parametric curvature
- on blend curves 424
Partial Joins option 92
parting line
- showing 401
Patch precision tool 53
patches
- on surfaces 20
Percent of Points Within Tolerance
option 474, 475
perpendicular
- curves 129
- drawing line 149
perspective window
- placement of objects in
- with construction
planes 39
Pick list 481
picking
- curve networks 437
placing points
- with guidelines 36
planar curves
- combining into 3D curve 205
planar faces
- creating 224
Plane 72
Plane Normal option 545
Plane Origin option 545
point clouds
- creating surfaces from 470
- dividing and merging 464
- importing 462
- overview 459
- picking 460
- projecting a curve onto 466
- tessellating 476
- toggling 461
Point Location Method
option 469
Point locator 365
points
- adding to curves 162
- snapping to 35
Polyline 144
polylines
- drawing 144
polysets
- creating from point
clouds 476
positional continuity
- aligning with 89
- definition of 23
Precision option 498
Precsion option 554
Preserve Shape option 102
primitives
- common options 74
- creating geometric 72
- creating rational 74
- using the manipulator 73
Project 319
- options 325
Project Curve Onto option 469
Project normal 319
- options 326
Project tangent 182
- parameters 187
- using manipulator 185
projecting
- curves along surface
normals 322
- curves on surfaces 321
- two planar curves into a 3D
curve 205
projection vector 319
- changing the 321
Projection Vector option 468
pull direction
- in Draft properties 395
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Q
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Query edit 50
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R
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radial locators
- adding 373
- editing 374
Radial Measures
- parameters 375
Radial pivot point option 537
radii, finding small 525
radius
- creating curve fillet with
constant 207
- creating surface fillet with
constant 288
- creating surface fillet with
variable 296
- measuring 373
Radius Measure 373
rails
- sweeping along 251
random color shading 489
Range min/max options 532
Range option 523, 528, 529
Ratio Value option 111
rational geometry 13
- creating 65
rational surfaces
- converting to non-
rational 336
Rebuild Cross-section
option 537
Rebuild curve 190
- options 193
Rebuild Edge option 434
Rebuild surface 334
- options 337
rebuilding
- complex curves 190
- complex surfaces 334
reducing
- number of spans
- on curves 190
- on surfaces 334
reflection map shading 494
Remove const plane 38
removing
- multi-knots on curves 192
- multi-knots on surfaces 335
resetting
- grid spacing 31
reshaping
- surfaces from digitized
data 347
Reverse direction 120
- options 122
Reverse U option 123
Reverse V option 123
reversing
- master-slave relationship on
blend curves 416
Revolve 233
- editing construction
history 234
- options 235
- using manipulator 234
revolving
- curves 233
ridges
- creating with Tubular
offset 117
Round 295
- conditions and results 299
- editing construction
history 298
- options 299
- using the buttons 296
Round fillet
- extending 298
rounded edges
- building 295
rounding
- corners and edges 295
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S
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saddle points
- finding 527
Sample every nth pt
option 463
Samples option 505
saving
- deviation table values 522
- grid settings 32
Scale option 498, 504, 528
scan data
- measuring deviation
from 497
sculpt curves 445, 449
Section Type option 536
sectioning
- at a parameter or
distance 216
- at the intersection with other
objects 215
- curves 215
segments
- deleting on curves 214
Set const plane 38
Set planar 224
- options 226
setting
- continuity tolerances 63
- default grid spacing 31
- digitizer mapping 142
- fitting tolerances 63
- maximum number of
guidelines 37
- modeling options 58
- site-wide CAD presets 59
- units 61
Setup digitizer 142
sharp bends
- by increasing multiplicity 165
Shell intersect 344
Shell subtract 344
Shell union 344
shells
- and normals 342
- definition of 25
- intersection 344
- limitations 26
- main uses 25
- performing boolean operations
on 344
- primitive spheres 75
- stitching surfaces into 341
- subtraction 344
- union 345
- unstitching 341
shelves
- in control panel 483
Show Comb option 519
Show Deviation tool 497
Show Edge Labels option 518
Show Max Labels option 518
Show Range option 533
showing
- information on an object 50
sidedness 21
single color shading 489
single key lines
- drawing 144
sketching
- curves 132
skew sliders 94
Skews Allowed option 92
Skin 227
- options 229
skinning
- a surface across curves 227
- tips 228
- with Auto Recalc off 228
- with Auto Recalc on 227
Smooth 112
- options 113
smoothing 112
snapping
- to grids, curves and points 35
space locators
- creating 365
Spacing option 502, 505
Spacing Plane option 544
spans
- reducing number of 190, 334
Spans Between U/V Isoparms
option 473
Sphere 72
- options 75
splines
- degree 5
- history of 4
Square 268
- editing construction history
in 269
- options 271
- tips 269
- using continuity table 271
Start option 502
Start/End Coordinate
options 537
Start/End U/V Continuity
option 113
Step option 502
Step Size option 537, 539
Stitch 341
- options 342
stitching
- surfaces into shells 341
Stretch 170
- options 171
stretching
- curves 170
Subdivision option 544
Subset 464
subtracting
- one shell from another 344
Surf curvature tool 523
Surface Direction option 113
Surface evaluate tool 540
surface locators
- creating 365
Surface plane 38
surfaces
- aligning 85
- aligning hulls of 316
- aligning several 314
- building 3-sided 266
- building 4-sided 266
- building a blended surface
between 293
- building beveled 285
- building birail 251
- building extruded 237
- building from
boundaries 266
- building from four boundaries
with continuity 268
- building N-sided 278
- building revolved 233
- building rounded edges and
corners 295
- building ruled surfaces from
curves 301
- building skinned 227
- building swept 241
- changing degree 339
- combining into one 308
- converting to uniform
parameterization 336
- creating a funnel shape 243
- creating a helical shape 243
- creating from point
clouds 470
- cross sections on 499
- description of 18
- different types of
- 18
- dividing into pieces 331
- extending 105
- filleting 288
- from blended
boundaries 266, 268
- intersecting 320
- keeping or discarding
regions 330
- mapping curves onto 322
- matching parameterization
on 335
- measure length of 403
- measuring curvature 382
- measuring deviation from
scan data 497
- min/max deviation
between 391
- min/max deviation from a
cloud 392
- min/max deviation from a
curve 392
- normals 20
- projecting curves along 322
- offseting 114
- offsetting with Claymate 348
- patches 20
- rebuilding 334
- reducing spans 334
- removing multi-knots
from 335
- reshaping with digitized
data 347
- reversing 120
- showing normals 120
- smoothing 112
- stitching into shells 341
- trimmimg 329
- untrimming 331
- with more than four sides 278
surfaces of revolution
- building 233
Swap U and V option 123
swapping
- U and V parameters 120
sweeping
- a curve along a path 241
- a curve along two paths 251
- an animated curve 261
Swept 241
- editing construction
history 244
- options 246
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tangency
- finding discontinuities, 376
- implied 257, 272
tangency at an angle
- for Birail surfaces 257
- for curves 186
- for Square surfaces 272
- manipulator in Square 269
tangent
- curves 129
- drawing keypoint arcs 155
- drawing lines 148
Tangent attach type 98
tangent continuity
- aligning several surfaces
with 314
- aligning with 90
- definition of 23
Tangent Scale option 93
Tessellate tool 476
text
- creating 77
- parameters 79
text comments
- adding to an object 48
- seeing 48
texture shading 494
Tgl const plane 38
Thickness option 554
three-point arcs
- drawing 152
three-point plane
- creating a 42
tips
- for building skin surfaces 228
- for building Square
surfaces 269
- for constructing curves 15
- on boolean operations 345
toggling
- construction planes 42
- guidelines 36
- locators 364
Tolerance option 474, 475, 534,
554
Tolerance slider 488
tolerances
- for modeling 63
torsion
- showing 376, 379
Torus 72
- options 75
triangular surfaces 266
- with continuity 278
Trim 329
- options 332
Trim dashed CoS option
- using 332
Trim divide 329
trim history 329
trimmed surfaces
- created by N-sided 278
- creating planar 225
- representing faces with 224
trimming 329
- inTubular offset 118
- keeping all regions 331
- surfaces 329, 330
- tolerances 332
- undo 331
Tubular offset 117
- options 119
- purpose 117
turning off
- grid display 32
two-point arcs
- drawing 153
Type option 553
typing
- fractional units 59
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U
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undercuts 395
- displaying 401
uniform
- parameterization 11
uniform parameterization
- converting curves to 192
- converting surfaces to 336
units
- setting 61
Unstitch 341
unstitching
- shells 341
Untrim 329
- options 333
untrimming
- surfaces 331
UV parameters
- swapping 120
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V
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Vector from window 322
vertical highlights shading 493
View Direction option 546
View Point option 546
Visual option 545
volume, measuring 550
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weights
- changing on CVs 164
- displaying 164
- limitations 164
wireframe mode 489
working
- with guidelines 36
world space
- coordinate system 38
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Z
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zebra stripes 530
zebra stripes shading 492, 493
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