Shape Sculptor

Overview

Conventions

What's New?

Getting Started

Entering the Workbench

Importing a Polygonal Mesh

Decimating a Polygonal Mesh

User Tasks

Input / Output

Importing One Digit File

Importing Several Digit Files

Exporting Clouds of Points or Meshes

Selecting Components

Selecting With a Brush

Selecting With a Box Trap

Selecting With Curves

Selecting Holes

Selecting With Flood

Inverting the Selection

Selecting Using the Activate Command

Selecting Using the Activate All Command

Creating

Creating Associative 3D Curves

Creating Paint Curves

Generating Meshes

Tessellating

Creating a Rough Offset

Performing Boolean Operations

Editing

Decimating Meshes

Refining

Smoothing

Smoothing With a Brush

Deleting Triangles

Extracting Triangles

Copying Triangles

Slicing

Intersecting Meshes

Trimming or Splitting a Mesh

Stitching

Modeling

Using Control Points

Selecting Control Points

Editing Control Points

Editing Geometry Orders

Using Control Points Support

Using Control Points Diffusion Laws

Using Control Points Cross Diffusion Laws

Harmonizing the Control Points

Smoothing Surfaces

Smoothing Curves

Symmetrizing the Control Points

Projecting the Control Points

Creating Delta Analysis

Projecting Curves

Extracting Curves

Sculpting Curves

Embossing

Pushing / Pulling a Mesh

Sculpting Surfaces

Creating Sharp Edges

Deforming Meshes

Modeling Using a Grid

Modeling Using an Interactive Grid

Morphing Meshes

Terrain Modeling

Enriching Meshes

Creating a Mesh on Contour Lines

Creating Contour Maps

Slicing a Mesh into Several Sections

Performing a Mesh Intersection

Creating an Excavation Surface

Inserting Break Lines

Analyzing

Analyzing Using Isophotes

Analyzing Using Curvature

Applying Display Modes

Modifying Cells Properties

Interoperability with Wireframe

Creating Points

Creating Lines

Creating Planes

Creating Circles

Generic Tools

Managing the Compass

Shape Sculptor Interoperability

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Shape Sculptor

Workbench Description

Menu Bar

Toolbars

Properties

Customizing

General

Display Modes

Shape Sculptor

Administration Tasks

Setting GVS Parameters for Contour Maps

Setting GVS Parameters for Mesh Drawings

Reference Information

Parameters for the Import of Digit Files

Methodology

Creating a Drawing from a Contour Map

Creating a Drawing from Meshes

Index