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Surface analysis tool: Draft Angle Analysis

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Surface analysis tool: Draft Angle Analysis

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- Next up, we check out a Surface Analysis Tool called Draft Angle Analysis. This tool is far more specialized than the other surface analysis tools we've looked at in other videos. It is used to evaluate geometry for potential issues on injection molded parts. We'll start off by taking a look at a couple of very simple objects, this cone and vase shape here in the front. I'm going to go ahead and launch the command by going up to the Analyze toolbar, go to surface and then Draft Angle Analysis. We'll pick both of these, one after the other and right click to complete. Now we'll kind of examine some of the options here. I'll zoom in to this first one on the left, I'm noticing its kind of got jagged edges here. So what you want to do when possible is adjust the mesh. The term mesh can be confusing but all this is referring to is the display or viewport mesh just to make it smoother and give you better…

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