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Curve shape analysis

Curve shape analysis - Siemens NX Tutorial

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Curve shape analysis

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- [Speaker] Under the Analysis tab, we have a gallery called Curve Shape. Curve Shape allows us to visually see what's going on with our curves. As we're building stylistic shapes, things that flow and have to look good, a lot of times it's difficult to see exactly what's going on with the curves just plain as they are. We want to verify that the curves, how they come together, meet the stylistic requirements and the Curve Shape Tools allow us to do that. These act like a switch, I can pick my curves and I can turn on the combs. I can show peaks. You can see here these are my peaks, basically the tightest curvature on those curves. I can also show inflections, where the inflections twist and come around on each other. Or I can go into this Curve Analysis Tool, which is basically a combination of all three of these. Under the Curve Analysis Tool, I can show the combs and I can also control the combs. Here I can suggest a…

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