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Applying 3D circle and corner - CATIA Tutorial
From the course: CATIA V5: Surfacing
Applying 3D circle and corner
- [Instructor] I'm going to talk about circles and corners now. You'll see Circle, Corner on the toolbar laying next to one another. So I'll select on the Circle icon. Once again, we have a pull-down with all the various methods of creating a circle. I'm going to cover a few of these. So the first one is Center and radius. So first we select our Center point and a Support, in this case I'm going to pick this surface. You can pick a plane as well. Now by default what the system does after I pick a surface is that it takes a plane tangent to the surface at that point, so right the circle is not necessarily touching the surface, but if I want the circle to touch a surface I can say Geometry on support and it lays it down on the surface, but I'll just take that back off again. Now you can see I have a Radius value. I can make this bigger or smaller. I also have a partial circle, as you can see. You can swing this around. Or I can say I want a complete circle and there we have it. If I…
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