From the course: Reverse Engineering Foundations: Product Design
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Surface creation
From the course: Reverse Engineering Foundations: Product Design
Surface creation
- [Instructor] So, I parsed out the data that I want and by activating that little region off of the STL, I now can go into a tool called Basic Surface Recognition and I'm going to pick the surface and hit Apply. What I want you to notice is it's currently set to Automatic and with that, it wants to create this big, giant cylinder. The reason why it wants to create that big, giant cylinder is it's picking up some potential defects from the manufactured part. Remember, I scanned this in and it's a plastic part. It's been through manufacturing, it may have been used, so as the part is aged, it's going to create some deformation in the part and with age, plastic tends to bend and twist. So, the system is picking that up and what I want to do is I want to tell it that it's planar. Select Apply, let me go down to the bottom of the tree, you'll see it hasn't created anything yet. So, it puts out this surface and it allows me to increase the size, grabbing those handles, I can decrease as…
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