ALSO CONSIDER, BEFORE MERGING "A" TO "B"....TRIM A WITH B. THEN B WITH A.
THEN TRY TO MERGE THEM..
BUT ADJUSTING ACCURACY OF THE PART MAY HELP TOO. CONSIDER USING ABSOLUTE
ACCURACY AS OPPOSED TO RELATIVE.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Slotty, Eric (GE Healthcare) <
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> Surface stitching seems to be affected by part accuracy more than
> standard features…. Maybe an adjustment is necessary…****
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> Hi John,****
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> Could be off base here as a couple of versions on and no longer have older
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> Maybe my memory is playing tricks but I think the joining of several
> coincident quilts in one operation came in with WF5. Before that I seem to
> recall having to make several merges to get the one finished quilt. At
> that time I would usually start at one end and pick the first two adjacent
> quilts then merge them and then with the merged quilt highlighted use Ctrl
> and pick the next adjacent quilt (and so on). Tedious. Also best to set
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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:32 PM, WAYMAN John <
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> I am mystified.****
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> I am no expert on surfacing, but:****
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> I was pretty sure I could create a series of boundary blends and merge
> them to create a single quilt.****
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> Today, I can't. I end up with a curve, not a quilt.****
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> I have a series of x,y,z coordinates in Excel, which define a domed
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> I have created , in Wildfire 4, a set of datum points offset from a
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> I created a series of datum curves through these groups of points. ****
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> I created a boundary blend, using an adjacent pair of these datum curves
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> I repeated this process, until I had a set of boundary blend surfaces that
> resembled what I wanted to create. ****
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> I then tried to merge adjacent pairs of boundary blend surfaces to create
> a single quilt defining the whole part surface. ****
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> That's where it went wrong: I was left with a curve at the join between
> the adjacent boundary blends, instead of the quilt I was expecting.****
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> I'm sure I've done this successfully many times in the past (on WF2), but
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