Description: 5 minutes; Lab exercise: 20 min
Repair poor connections between surfaces and improve the smooth tangent connection between faces with the new command Adjust Faces.
Adjust Faces works in two different modes along an edge: One face and Both faces.
If only one face along a selected edge is modifiable, the surface corresponding to this face will inherit the tangent plane of the adjacent face. Only one face is trimmed along the boundary edge.
If both faces attached to an edge are allowed to be changed, the corresponding surfaces are modified simultaneously to improve the continuity of the tangency.
Select all the edges in the area that you wish to be smoothed. This should give a better result than selecting only one edge. If problems occur, they may be related to one specific surface. In this case, reduce the number of edges for a better result.
When Adjust Faces is used with face parts, a new part containing the modified surfaces is created and the original part is unchanged.
When Adjust Faces is used with solid parts, the system tries to integrate the new surface into the existing part using the Align function (Modify 3D). If the integration is not possible, the system creates a new part.
These exercises provides hands-on experience using the new Adjust Faces command in OneSpace Designer Modeling 2005.
Watch the user interface viewlet - UI Tour video.
Save the file adjust_face.pkg on your system.



A global range change will overwrite a local range change.



Here you can see that the zebra stripes do not match up. Before we adjusted the faces, there was an unsmooth connection between faces.

Here you can see the connection between three faces. Because the stripes meet one another we know that the connection is smooth and tangential.
To learn more about the Zebra stripes tool, go to Zebra stripes analysis.