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Visualize geometry of faces

Menu access: Sheet metal | Tools | Visualize geometry of faces

Description:

Allows to quickly visualize shape geometry in order to check the topology and know if it should be simplified or worked again.

General philosophy:

The visualisation is displayed on a basic copy of the selected shape just when the shape is selected.

 

Colour

Dark cyan

Dark green

Red

Yellow

Pink

Orange

Blue

Magenta

 

Type of surface

Planar

Cylindrical

BSpline same as cylinder (Simplification required)

BSpline

Spherical or torus

Extruded or conical

Parallel

Revolved

 

Specific point(s):

This function can be compared to the standard Analyze | Geometry function. This function is useful before convert basic shape with the sheet metal convert.

The basic copy of the selected shape is done along the X+ axis according to the bulk of the shape, the basic copy doesn't reference anymore the selected shape.

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