From the course: CATIA V5: Class A Surfacing
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Constituent components and terminology - CATIA Tutorial
From the course: CATIA V5: Class A Surfacing
Constituent components and terminology
- Something that most people are unaware of, is the actual beginnings of where Class A surfacing came from. The terminology, the tools, the verbiage. They all have a nautical base. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago ships and boats were built using long slats of wood, called splines. Those splines were wrapped around control points. There are also other aspects of where splines were joined together at end-points called knots. And so on, and so forth. So, do you really want to get a good, deep understanding of where these terminologies come from? Go research ship building. It's a very interesting topic and it'll give you a really good, strong foundation of where all of this comes from. Now, to relate that into a CAD system, what you see here is a surface. That surface has control points. These control points, control the actual shape of that surface. This surface also happens to have an internal knot point.…
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