From the course: CATIA V5: Surfacing
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Connect checker
- [Instructor] Once we've created surfaces, we need to analyze the surfaces and/or curves are within a specific tolerance. The tool that I'm going to use is what's called Connect Checker. Come down here, select my icon. To get this part, you can either use a file downloaded in your references or hit F1 on the keyboard and open up the document that you see listed here. Now, let's get to work. The way this works is, you specify, in this case, two, three, four, 10 surfaces. Make this surface number one. I'm going to hold the Control key down, pick surface number two and its going to give me a gauge measuring, in this case, what's called G0. G0 is a continuity type, indicating that two elements touch. As you can see, at this end point and at this end point the surfaces actually touch. As we get further away, toward the center, I have a deviation. Now, if I look at the bottom of this menu, I have max info. At this point, this is our greatest point of deviation, It's 1.76 millimeters away…
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