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Converting splines

Converting splines - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Converting splines

- [Instructor] When creating splines, you might not be sure if you want to create a style spline or an interpolated spline. But with the tools that are available you can actually convert between the two. Let's run through this real quick. I'm going to just select a regular spline, create a couple points, and hit escape. Here we have a regular spline with our handles like we're used to seeing. If I select that, go to tools, spline tools, and then click on convert to style spline. I'm going to go ahead a click yes. This is going to convert that from an interpolating spline to a style spline that I can now adjust using the line geometry like we've talked about before. If I want to convert it back, I just select it again, go to tools, go to spline tools, and now I convert to a interpolating spline. Go ahead and do that. And the one downside to that is you see I've got way more handles than I originally had. Which you might want to do is just hit simplify on that, increase your tolerance a…

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