Smoothing

This command can produce a single-face surface from a multi-face surface.

Creation Stages / Use:

Click on the icon or choose the command Surface > Smoothing... from the drop down menu (or Modeling > Surface > Smoothing... in the assembly document).

Select the face smoothing mode:

	By Points: The smoothing is done by distributing points on U and V isoparametric curves on the faces.
	By Plane: The points on the reference plane are projected on the faces to smooth. These points are then used to calculate a surface by limited interpolation by the outer borders of the faces to be smoothed.
	By Tolerance: The smoothing is done with a given tolerance.

According to the smoothing mode chosen:

- Select the reference plane for the smoothing or check Automatic plane.
- Enter the number of isoparametric curves following U and V directions
- Enter the tolerance value.

Validate with the button.

The reference plane's normal should not intersect the faces to smooth multiple times.

It is not possible to select faces that belong to different shapes.

Available Options:

Sewing tolerance:

When the smoothing is done on a part of the shape, the smoothed face is then reconnected to the shape. The sewing tolerance reconnects the faces whose border edges were deformed.

Example:


Surface before smoothing	Surface after smoothing