Smooth Surface – Picked Internals

You can smooth points on selected internals, rather than all the points in the surface. This is useful when a surface is over-constrained by internals in a specific area. This usually occurs when a certain number of internals is required in order to link up with internals in a neighbouring surface. If for this reason you cannot delete the internals, you can smooth them instead, freeing the points along them to a position where they do not create ripples in the surface.

The Smooth internals combined option allows you to smooth all the picked internals at the same time. Instead of smoothing each internal individually, using the internals on either side as a guide to the ideal smooth position, CopyCAD smoothes all the selected internals at the same time. You should only use this option if the surface would maintain its shape if the selected internals were deleted.

To smooth selected surface internals:

1. With a surface model displayed, click and drag over a single surface patch to select it. The surface's internals turn red to show that they are selected.

Note: If you select more than one surface, the Smooth Single Surface button remains greyed out and unavailable.

2. Click on the Smooth Single Surface button to display its dialog box.
   
   
3. Click on the Picked Internals tab to display it.

When you click on this tab, all the surface internals are de-selected.

4. Click on the internals that you to smooth. The internals turn red when selected.

Note: To de-select an individual internal and leave the others selected, hold down the Ctrl key and click on it.

5. Type the tolerance you want to use in the Tolerance box. This sets the amount of movement allowed for each point on the internals.
   
   
6. Type the number of steps you want CopyCAD to use when carrying out the smoothing action in the Maximum Number of Iterations box.
   
   
7. If you want to allow the points on the surface boundaries to move, make sure that the Smooth boundary points (excluding shared boundaries) check box is selected.

Note: if the boundary is shared by another surface, the points will remain in their current position.

8. If you want to smooth all the selected internals at once, make sure that the Smooth internals combined check box is selected.
   
   
9. If you want to draw the original surface so that you can see how each point has moved, make sure that the Draw original surface check box is selected.
   
   
9. Click on Apply to smooth the surface.

During this process, CopyCAD displays a progress bar and stop button in the status bar. If you want to stop the smoothing process, click on the button.

When the surface has been smoothed, the maximum adjustment to a point is displayed in the status bar.

10. Click on Accept to close the Smooth Surface dialog box.

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Smooth Single Surface