From the course: Siemens NX: Surfacing
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Alignment
- [Instructor] I'm gonna talk about a setting in the surfacing tools, just an overall, overarching sort of setting that exists in a lot of the surfacing tools, it's called Alignment, it's the Alignment method. It's how things basically align to one another as you create certain mesh surfaces, or when you use a Swept or any of the other tools that use multiple sections. So, the Alignment is just that, how does a section like this align with a section like that? So now I'm going to go in and use an example, Through Curves. You have an Alignment under Through Curves, you have an Alignment under Studio Surface, you have Alignment under Swept. They all use, again, multiple sections, so how do those multiple sections align to one another? So under Through Curves I'm gonna go down and notice I have Alignment and I'm gonna start off with Parameter, I'm gonna pick this section first, again I get the little arrow, this is the direction that the Alignment is going to take place. So that's the…
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