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- MESH allows you to generate a set of lines (a mesh) that
- approximates the surface to a user-specified level of
- accuracy. It can be a two-curve, three-curve, or
- four-curve swept surface; a tabulated cylinder; a surface
- of revolution; a sphere; or a ruled surface.
-
- Create the mesh by choosing from the following options:
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- 2 CURVE - to create a line mesh that is defined by a
- selected generator curve and director curve. The mesh
- approximates a swept surface that is formed by moving
- or sweeping the generator curve along the director curve.
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- 3 CURVE - to create a line mesh that is defined by either
- two generator curves and a director curve, or by one
- generator curve and two director curves. The mesh
- approximates the blending of the two, two-curve surfaces.
-
- 4 CURVE - to create a line mesh that is defined by two
- generator curves and two director curves. The mesh
- approximates the blending of the four, two-curve surfaces.
-
- TAB CYL - to create a line mesh that approximates the
- surface that is defined by sweeping a generator curve
- along an axis vector (the director) of a specified length.
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- REVOLUT - to create a line mesh that approximates the
- surface formed by rotating a generator curve about an axis
- by a specified angular distance.
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- SPHERE - to create a line mesh that approximates a sphere.
- You can create a sphere in any of the following ways:
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- - by specifying the center and radius of the sphere, as
- well as the number of latitude and longitude lines.
-
- - by specifying the center and diameter of the sphere, as
- well as the number of latitude and longitude lines.
-
- RULED - to create a line mesh that approximates the
- surface formed by simultaneously moving a line (generator)
- along two director curves.
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