Surfaces Panel

The Surfaces panel allows you to add and edit surfaces. The surface entity allows you to describe a parametric surface for use with advanced joints like the PointToSurfaceJoint, the CurveToSurfaceJoint and the SurfaceToSurfaceJoint. The Surface can be described by a user subroutine for the MotionSolve and Adams solvers, and by a parasolid reference for the Adams solver.

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Surfaces panel

The Surfaces panel contains the following tabs:

Connectivity

Properties

User-Defined

1.	From the Project Browser, select the system to which the surface is to be added.

2.	Right-click on a system folder in the Project Browser and select Add > Reference Entity > Surface from the context menu.

-	Right-click on a surface folder in the Project Browser and select Add Surface from the context menu.

-	Right-click the Surfaces button on the Reference toolbar.

The Add Surface dialog is displayed.

3.	Assign a label to the surface in the Label field.

The surface label can be changed at any time.

4.	Assign a variable name to the surface in the Variable field.

The variable name is required and cannot be changed after it is defined.

5.	Enter any notes in the Note text box

6.	Click Apply.

Click OK.

The surface is added to the model.