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Advanced Surface Creation Tools
Advanced tools for creating surfaces ensure that
your surfaces maintain positional, tangent, or
curvature continuity with surrounding surfaces—for
high-quality results ready for manufacturing.
Semiautomated Surface Modeling Tools
Do surfacing work faster. Autodesk Alias Surface
provides semiautomated tools for creating clean,
complex surfaces ready for tooling. For example,
you can create a fillet and accompanying flange in a
single operation.
Explicit Surface Control
Maintain control over surfaces, creating the lightest,
highest-quality geometry. Choose single-span
(Bezier) geometry or multispan nonuniform rational
B-spline (NURBS) geometry, then define the
number of spans and the degree of created surfaces.
Curve on Surface Paradigm
Precisely trim and form edges of new surfaces.
Share trimmed geometry among modelers while
retaining precision.
Direct Surface Modeling
Sculpt surfaces directly by adjusting surface control
vertices. Alias Surface’s curve-based tools let you
define a shape at its edges, or you can use direct
modeling to adjust the shape at any point. Maintain
complete control of Bezier surfaces to achieve the
exact form and surface quality you need.
Precision Surface Modeling
Surface Evaluation
Verify the quality of created surfaces, including
curvature and radii analysis. This ensures that
geometry can be used by CAD programs and will
meet manufacturing requirements.
Align Tool
Accurately line up surfaces and curves, directly
controlling geometry alignment. Achieve high-
quality surface modeling and Class-A surfaces with
new math capability for surface construction.
Bezier Surface Fillet
Create and manipulate Bezier surface fillets to
address Class-A surfacing requirements. Provide
superior surfaces with strict Bezier output.
Develop the Class-A surfaces engineering teams need to
create tooling. Dynamic modeling capabilities help you
develop Bezier or NURBS geometry in less time.
