Generating a Surface using Curves

The surfaces can now be created. Four corner points are needed to create a surface, and CopyCAD takes the shortest route between two points. The curves you have just created will be used as a guide to create the first surface.

To do this

1. Click on the Surface Generation button on the Main toolbar to display its side toolbar.
   
   
2. Click on the Create Surface button on the side toolbar. This puts you in Surface Creation mode and opens the Curve and Surface Fitting Options dialog box. We are going to use the default settings in this dialog box to create our curves.

Note: Advanced users can change the Curve and Surface Fitting options to suit the particular needs of a model.

3. Select the four points as shown in the next diagram, by dragging a box around them individually with the Left mouse button.

The selected points are shown as yellow squares, with purple lines connecting them.

4. Reselect the first point.

When you re-select the first point, the surface boundaries are closed and the first surface is created. The model will look like the one below. The surface has a surface marker on it, which you can use to select it.

5. Redraw the triangles using the Draw Triangles button on the Draw toolbar. The model looks like this:

Next:

Creating a Surface using Guidepoints