From the course: NX: Class A Surfacing
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Continuities to adjacent elements - Siemens NX Tutorial
From the course: NX: Class A Surfacing
Continuities to adjacent elements
- [Instructor] A very important concept you have to understand when creating any kind of aesthetically pleasing surface is continuity. I'm going to use these curves to demonstrate continuity. It's the same for curves as it is for surfaces. Now when I look at this end, I can see that I have a corner between this curve and this curve. It is obvious because of these needles that I'm showing. These needles represent the amount of curvature at that point on that curve, or these curves. Because the endpoints touch, but the needles are not parallel, I have a G0 condition. G0 means position. If I go to the other end here and take a look at this, I see these needles are parallel. This is G1, which means tangent, but because they're not the same length, they don't share the same curvature. Tangent means just like a standard edge blend or just a corner break. You can see where it's at on a surface. It's typically not the prettiest…
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