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Feature Flip normal?

pnos
6-Contributor

Feature Flip normal?

Hi, I would like to ask what it is in Creo function FLIP NORMAL?Thanks


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Patriot_1776
22-Sapphire II
(To:pnos)

Back in the old days of surfaces with normals only on one side, if it was facing away from the viewer, the surface was invisible. I think now that it's more used for determining toolpaths, etc.

Patriot_1776
22-Sapphire II
(To:pnos)

To expand on that, in the old days, surfaces usually were single-sided (only one normal), so you had the issues with holes if the normals were wrong. Now, it seems almost all surfaces are double-sided, with exceptions I've seen being STEP or other imported files that have holes.

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