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Displaying stripes

This tool will reflect an infinite striped plane on the selected faces (or on all the faces of the selected solid). This tool is useful to show how the smoothness of a surface.

Use this tool to visualize and check tangency and curvature continuity between faces. For example, two surfaces may appear to have a smooth transition, but the Stripes tool will reveal an irregularity.

In the example above, the area marked with A has good continuity. The stripes line up almost perfectly across the edge. The area marked with B does not have good continuity. The stripes do not quite line up at the edge.

If you find irregularities in your design, you can repair them using the following tools:

• Tangency (on the Prepare tab)

• Merge Faces (on the Prepare tab)

• FillUse the Fill tool to simplify or clean up geometry by extending surrounding faces to eliminate a selection. The selected region is filled in or healed with the surrounding surface or solid. with the Patch BlendSmooth and tangent transition between faces or edges; created using the Pull tool. option (on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab)

To display stripes

1. Click Stripes in the QualityTools for detecting anomalies or discontinuities in surfaces. group on the MeasureTools for displaying measurement properties of the edges, faces, and solids in your design. tab.

2. Select the face that you want to appear striped. Ctrl+click to select multiple faces or select an object in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components..

Options

The following options are available with the Stripes analysis tool:

Examples