Guided loft: Integrate a guided loft surface to an existing face

Description: 5 minutes; Lab exercise: 20 minutes

You can integrate a new surface to an existing face using a birail.  The surface interpolates the birails and the new surface can be added and connected to the given part.  Working with a lower resolution (1e-3 or 1e-4 mm) will help to keep the data size of the surface low.

Lab exercise

In this case, two faces are split by an imprinted line.

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  1. Load the onebirailforintegration.pkg file.
  2. Click Surfacing .
  3. Click Guided Loft in the Create Face section.
  4. Select the edge as the Spine.
  5. Select the curve as the Profile Edges.
  6. Select the imprinted line on the surface as the Birail Edges.
  7. Click to complete the operation.

Spine is orange, Profile is blue, and Birail is white.

Result of guided loft: A third surface is integrated into the previous two.

 

 

When you select the imprinted line on the surface as the Spine and there is no birail, the surface looks like this: