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March 5, 2013
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Surface Through Points

  • March 5, 2013
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Is there any way to create a surface through points?

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    March 5, 2013

    Typically you need edges to start. You can draw a pair of datum curves through points and use the Boundary Blend to join them. There are a lot of options in Boundary Blend to help control the surface including adding control points.

    ptc-49728721-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    March 5, 2013

    Thanks. The method you discribed is the way I have been doing it. Idealy I would like to select many points on a surface with a FaroArm and then be able to connect them with a best fit surface either in the Faro software or Creo 2.0.

      Limetrude1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 6, 2013

      I think the only way you could do it and get a NURBs surface is to have the points projected onto a plane that is nearest them and then create a curve through them and make the surface as you already eluded to. I don't think you can do it with random points in the U and V direction.

      Otherwise all you get is not a real surface but a triangulation surface file like an STL file etc.

      It would probably just be easier to get the extension that is meant for this rather than messing around with it to much.

      http://www.ptc.com/product/creo/reverse-engineering-extension

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