Introduction To Blending

Contents

Parasolid provides a comprehensive range of functionality for blending edges and faces of complex geometry with unmatched reliability. This volume explains how to add blends to a body along chains of edges or between two or three sheets of faces, thereby smoothing off sharp edges in a model. Parasolid’s comprehensive range of options that let you control the presence and appearance of blend faces in a body is also explained along with information on common causes of error codes for edge blending and face blending.

This volume contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 74, “Edge Blending Overview” provides an introduction to edge blending
• Chapter 75, “Edge Blending Options” describes the functions used to perform edge blending
• Chapter 76, “Edge Blend Overflows” describes the causes and solutions to blend overflows
• Chapter 77, “Face-Face Blending” describes Parasolid’s support for blending between two faces
• Chapter 78, “Three-Face Blending” describes Parasolid’s support for blending between three sets of faces
• Chapter 79, “Interpreting Edge Blending Error Codes” describes the common causes of error codes for edge blending
• Chapter 80, “Interpreting Face-Face Blending Error Codes” describes the common causes of error codes for face-face blending.

Figure 73-1 Chamfer, rolling-ball and variable radius edge blends

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