Advanced Covering is a feature of Deformable Modeling that is now available as a standalone add-on for the 3D ACIS Modeler. This single API uses sophisticated algorithms to create high-quality n-sided surfaces that meet user-specified tolerances for position and tangency on boundaries and on optional internal guiding geometry. Advanced Covering allows a surface to be fit onto circuits (collections of edges that form closed loops) in solid or wire bodies. Many of our customers use Advanced Covering for post-translation surface replacement or re-covering, non-planar end-capping, and surface definition from curve data.
Key Features of Advanced Covering
- Creation of non-planar, n-sided surfaces
- Retention of positional and tangential continuity with adjacent surfaces
- Individual specification of continuity tolerance on each edge (G0 and G1)
- Placement of auxiliary point and curve restraints (G0 only)
- Post-covering gap reporting (diagnostics)
- Optional specification of initial surface
