Stitching the Surfaces in PS-Surfacer

When you extend the surfaces, PS-Surfacer converts the existing boundary into an internal and creates a new surface boundary. In the case of shared surface boundaries, the new part of the boundary will no longer be shared.

If you zoom in on the area between the surfaces, you will see the small gaps between them at each end.

You must stitch together the small gaps between the extended smaller surface and the larger surface.

We will use the PS-Surfacer Calculator to find the distance between the two surfaces that needs to be stitched.

To stitch the gaps:

1. Click on the Zoom to Box button , then click and drag to zoom in one end of the boundary between the two surfaces.
   
   
2. Double-click on the smaller surface to select it and display the Surface Edit toolbar.
   
   
3. Click on the smaller surface's boundary to select it. The boundary turns red.
   
   
4. Click on the Stitch surface button to open its dialog box.
   
   
5. You must now find out the maximum distance between the two surface boundaries:
   • Right click in the Max gap to stitch box to display the Calculator, which opens in Auto-measure mode
     
     
   • Click on the end point of the smaller surface's boundary.
     
     
   • Click on the larger surface's boundary at the point where you want to stitch the surfaces.
     
     
   • In the Calculator, click on the Accept button. This transfers the value for the measured gap to the Stitch dialog box and closes the Calculator.

6. Click on the larger surface's boundary to select it.

The Stitch dialog box now looks like the example below.

7. Click on the Accept button to stitch the gap.
   
   
8. Click on the Resize to Fit button to view the whole model again, then repeat the steps to stitch the other end of the surface boundary.

Next:

Creating the new Fillet Surface