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Rebuilding surfaces

Rebuilding surfaces - Alias Tutorial

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Rebuilding surfaces

- Let's continue on with rebuilding surfaces. Let's click on the surface layer. I'm gonna rotate and zoom into this entity here. Let's select this entity. This is a router. We can tell just by looking at this surface that the profile that was used during this route was probably quite a heavy curve, so the resultant surface is quite undesirable. We're gonna try to reduce that complexity. I've just put a little not here telling me that it's a degree 3X1, 8X27 span surface. Let's go into Surface Edit, Rebuild Surface. Let's do a reset. These are very similar options that we've used during the curve rebuild. Let's start off with Reduce spans. I'm gonna pick the surface, space bar to accept. Before I do that let's click on all these options here. Now with Reduce spans, again as with curves, Alias tries to reduce the number of spans within this particular tolerance. Right now we have an 8X25 span so we haven't done that great. But if we do increase or loosen up the tolerances here let's see…

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