Now you can finish defining the midsurface. Insert and can be connected to geometry by a note leader.: Faces only need to be identified on one side of the model. Note Annotation placed on a design, drawing sheet, or 3D markup. This face will now be included when the midsurface is created. Faces that look like offset pairs might not be identified as a midsurface because of errors in translation, or when the part was not modeled with an offset face.Ĭlick the Add/Remove Faces tool guide if it is not already active (it should be). The Select Faces tool guide is active by default.Īfter you select the first face, SpaceClaim will filter the selection and will only allow you to click on parallel faces, or faces that produce an offset.Īll surfaces with the same thickness will be identified on the part and highlighted in blue:Īs you can see, one round does not have the same thickness and is not identified as an offset pair. You may need to do this when the sets of detected colored faces are not grouped cleanly.Ĭomplete tool guide creates the midsurface faces.Ĭlick Midsurface in the Define group on the Prepare tab. Swap Sides tool guide allows you to switch the face pairs. This tool guide allows you to select a pair of offset faces, and all other face pairs with the same offset distance are automatically detected.Īdd/Remove Faces tool guide allows you to select additional faces to offset or remove detected face pairs from the selection. Select Faces tool guide is active by default. You should read Creating midsurface faces to become familiar with the Midsurface tool before you continue. You need to save it to your disk and change the file extension from '.zip' to '.scdoc'įirst you will define the midsurface by selecting offset face pairs. If you are using the online version of the help, the model will be downloaded as a zip file. We will use this design to show basic midsurface creation. Step 1: Open the documentĬlick on the following link and save the file on your computer: w8872.scdoc. This tutorial will teach you how to define midsurfaces. You are here: SpaceClaim add-ins > ANSYS add-in > ANSYS demos and tutorials > Midsurface tutorial

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