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Displaying the UV grid of a face

Use the GridSee Sketch grid tool to display the curves that define any face or surface in your design. This tool displays a visual representation of the mathematical expression of the surface. The grid lines represent the mathematical expression used to generate the surface. You can use it to identify a low quality surface. For example, a face may look fine, but the underlying mathematical representation is unnecessarily complicated or poorly parameterized. You would have problems changing the face using other tools.

If you find a face with underlying problems, you can delete the face, then use the 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. tool with the Patch BlendSmooth and tangent transition between faces or edges; created using the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool. option or the Replace tool to generate a new face.

To view a face or surface grid

1. Click GridSee Sketch grid 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 a face or surface. Ctrl+click to display the grid on multiple faces and surfaces.

   Click in an empty area in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace. to hide the grid.

Options

The following option is available with the GridSee Sketch grid analysis tool:

Examples

FaceSide or other surface of a solid. Some examples are the inside surface of a hole or the six sides of a rectangular solid. See Surface. grids with grid shading, checker shading, and wire

FaceSide or other surface of a solid. Some examples are the inside surface of a hole or the six sides of a rectangular solid. See Surface. grids displayed on a blended face and on a sphere