Stitches parametric surfaces together to form a quilt or solid.
- Access
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Ribbon:
3D Model tab
Surface panel
Stitch
Also analyzes whether surfaces are suitable for stitching. Creates a stitch feature that can you can edit later.
- Stitch tab
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- Surfaces
- Selects individual or all surfaces to stitch together into a quilt or analyze. Surfaces are highlighted in the graphics window as you select them.
- Maximum Tolerance
- Select or enter a value for the maximum allowable tolerance between free edges.
- Find Remaining Free Edges
- Displays the free edges that remain after stitching, and the maximum gap between them.
- Click a row item and right-click it to display the context menu.
- Click Find in Window, to zoom in on the edge.
- Click Set as Tolerance, to change the maximum tolerance used in stitching.
- Free edge pairs display the value of the maximum gap between them.
- Free edge pairs that partially exceed the maximum tolerance, display the minimum gap in Red (the gap is within tolerance, but not fixed).
- Free edges without pairs display no gap value.
- Maintain as surface
- Maintains closed volume as a surface. If not selected, a closed volume that results from the stitch operation becomes a solid.
- Analyze tab
- Analyzes selected surfaces and marks surface edges with conditions to indicate suitability for stitching into a quilt. Identifies surfaces that have gaps or tolerance errors.
- Show Edge Conditions
- Identifies surface edges by color to show results of analysis.
- Black edges are stitched to an adjacent surface.
- Red edges are free edges on a surface, and are not stitched to an adjacent surface.
- Show Near Tangent
- Displays near tangent conditions.
- Magenta edges have some discontinuity to the adjacent surface (are nearly tangent). These edges can cause failures in subsequent design operations, such as creating a shell.
Note: This option impacts performance.
- Maintain as surface
- Maintains closed volume as a surface. If not selected, a closed volume that results from the stitch operation becomes a solid.
- Apply
- Stitches selected surfaces into a quilt.