Edu Cat en QSR Fi v5r19 Toprint

Quick Surface Reconstruction
CATIA V5 Training
Foils
Quick Surface
Reconstruction
Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES
Version 5 Release 19
August 2008
EDU_CAT_EN_QSR_FI_V5R19
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Copyright DASSAULT SYSTEMES 1

About this course

Objectives of the course
Upon Completion of this course you will be able to:
-Create Scans from point cloud data
-Create curves from scans
-Create surfaces from scans
-Create model and fillet model
-Create Deviation analysis and Annotations
Targeted audience
Surface Designers
Prerequisites
Students attending this course should have experience in the 1 day
following domain(s): CATIA V5 fundamentals, Digitized Shape

Editor and Surface Design
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Table of Contents (1/3)
Quick Surface Reconstruction: Introduction 6

Accessing the Workbench 7
User Interface 8
Master Exercise Presentation:Plastic Bottle 10
Creating Scans 11
Using Curvature Analysis 12
Using Isoslope Computation 16
Master Exercise Step 1: Creating Scans 18
Creating Curves 19
Creating Curve From Scans 20
Creating Sketches From Scans 23
Creating a 3D Curve 25
Trimming Non Intersecting Curves 28
Adjust Nodes 29
Cleaning Contour 31
Trimming a Clean Contour 33
Curve on Mesh 34
Master Exercise Step 2: Creating Curves 37
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Creating Surfaces 38
Creating Canonical Surfaces 39
Creating Free Form Surfaces 41
Master Exercise Step 3: Creating Surfaces 46
Master Exercise Step 4: Creating the Rough Model 47
Master Exercise Step 5: Filleting the Model 48
Checking Deviation 49
Performing a Deviation Analysis 50
Creating Annotations 55
Creating Deviation Reports 56
Creating a Curvature Mapping 57
Automatic Processes 58
Creating a Network 59
Creating Surface On a Network 64
Creating Automatic Surfaces 67
Additional Exercises 71
Exercise: Car Body 72
Exercise: Toy Plastic Part 73
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Exercise:Washing Powder Bottle 74

Instructor Notes:

Quick Surface Reconstruction: Introduction

In this lesson, you will become familiar with the user interface and the general
process of Quick Surface Reconstruction.
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Accessing the Workbench
The ‘Quick Surface Reconstruction’ workbench can be accessed from

Start > Shape > Quick Surface Reconstruction.
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User Interface (1/2) 16 functions specific to QSR

Other functions are imported from other workbenches
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User Interface (2/2)
Surface Network Curves Network

Deviation
Power Fit Report
16 functions specific to QSR
Basic Surface Annotation
Toolbar Icons
Recognition
Automatic Surface Curvature Mapping

Curve Slice
Segmentation by Curvature Criterion
Adjust Nodes
Segmentation by Slope Criterion Clean Contour
Sketch From Scan
Clean Contour Split
Curve on Mesh
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Plastic Bottle
Master Exercise Presentation
2 hrs
In this exercise, you will learn how to rebuild a surface

model from a tessellated cloud of points.
The exercise steps are presented at the end of every

lesson in order to let you practice the tools you learnt
in that lesson.
In this process you will perform the exercise steps in

the following order:
Creating Scans
Creating Curves
Creating Surfaces
Creating the Rough Model

Filleting the Model
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Creating Scans
In this lesson, you will learn to create Scans from the Point Cloud data
using the different tools of scanning.
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Using Curvature Analysis (1/4)

This function creates scans with the points where the
evaluated curvature or curvature radius of the mesh has
a given value (iso-curvature)
A. Influent Radius: Define the radius value. By

default it is 1/100 of the diagonal of the bounding
box of the mesh. A
B. Parameters: Define the curvature value or select a

point of the mesh. B
C. Type: Define the analysis type
a. Curvature
b. Radius
Real-time display of curvature
value at cursor position
C
Iso-curvature display
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D. Filter: Define a filtering value to

suppress unwanted small loops
(from 0 to 500).
Filtering value set to 0
Filtering value set to 500

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E. Display: Display the temporary curvature

mapping. Define the color partition value
using the slider.
Display value set to 25

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F. Results: Choose output options for the result.

a. Scans
b. Cloud
Create iso-curvature
scan(s)
b
Split the mesh into two F
sub-meshes defined by
the iso-curvature scan(s)
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Using Isoslope Computation (1/2)

This function creates scans composed of
the points where normal to the mesh has a
given angle with a reference direction.
A. Angle Values: Define the angle value or select a

A
point on the mesh.
B. Compass Angle: Define the reference direction

using the compass or using the icons of the box.
B
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Using Isoslope Computation (2/2)
C. Results: Choose output options for the result.

a. Scans
b. Cloud
Create the isoslope scan(s)
Split the mesh by the isoslope scan(s)

Scans can also be created with DSE commands available in QSR
Project Curves Planar Sections Create Free Edges
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Plastic Bottle
Step 1: Creating Scans
15 min
During this step, you will create scans from the digitized
data by an isoslope computation and by planar sections.
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Creating Curves
In this lesson, you will learn how to create and process curves.
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Creating Curves From Scans (1/3)
This function creates curves by smoothing or interpolating

a scan:
A. Smoothing: Approximation by a NURBS curve (one
curve between two splitting points) within a given
accuracy.
B. Interpolation: The curve goes exactly through the A B
points of the scan.
C. Tolerance: Define the smoothing accuracy equal to C
max. accepted distance between curve and scan
points. D
D. Max. Order: Define the order of each curve’s segment. E
E. Max. Segment: Define the maximum number of F
segments for each curve till the accuracy is reached
with the specified order.
F. Split Angle: Define an angle value for automatic equal
splitting to improve the accuracy by increasing the
number of curves.
Activate the curvature display Displays the order and
option (porcupine analysis) number of segments
Displays the
maximum Deviation
Curves can also be created with GSD commands available in QSR - Intersection and Projection.
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Add splitting points manually by clicking on scan points,

usually to preserve sharp corners or curvature discontinuities
Right-click the point to

choose the options
You can choose to remove a point or all

points from contextual menu
You may also choose a continuity level for the

curves meeting at the splitting point
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For the endpoints you may also choose:
A. To free or fix the endpoint

B. To impose a tangency direction
C. To constrain the point on an element,
usually an existing curve
A B C
Free Fixed Fixed
Fixed Fixed and tangent Fixed and tangent on element

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Creating Sketches From Scans (1/2)

This function approximates planar scans by editable sketches.
A. Element: Element(s) to process

B. Threshold: You can define splitting points
manually by clicking on scan points or
automatically using Threshold. You can add
Multi-selection button to
splitting points by decreasing the value of the select several sketches
threshold.
C. Tolerance: Expected tolerance equals to the
maximum distance between scan and sketch.
A
B
Display deviation values
for each element C
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Creating Sketches From Scans (2/2)
You can choose the continuity at splitting points using Constraint display option. Right-click labels to
change continuity types or remove splitting points.
You can choose the type of sketch element to create between 2 splitting points using Primitive display
option. Right-click labels to change element types.
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Creating a 3D Curve (1/3)

Curves can also be created directly with 3D curve (FreeStyle operator)
A. Creation Type: Interpolation by control points Smoothing

a. Through Point
b. Control Point
c. Near Point
B. Point Handling
a. Insert Point A
b. Remove Point
c. Constraint point on an element (curve, cloud)
B
C. Options: choose an accuracy and
a maximum number of segments
D. Smoothing Options:
C
D
Chord Length option Uniform option
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Let us create a 3D curve on a point cloud. 1
1. Select points on a cloud or on any existing
element (curve, point…) otherwise points
are taken in the current privileged plane
(defined by the compass).
2. When a point is constrained on a curve

you can move it along the curve with
manipulators.
3. Right-click a point: to edit its position in

space or on its support element to impose
a tangency or a curvature to remove or
constrain the point. 2
3
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4
4. Define the tangency direction at a point
using the green circles as manipulators.
5. Right-click the curve tangent (green arrow)

to access tangent definition options
5
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Trimming Non-Intersecting Curves

This function is used to split curves which do not exactly intersect.
A. Selected Curves: Select the curves to process

by picking or by trap.
B. Distance at Nodes: Visualization of the gap

between each couple of curves to slice.
C. Max. Distance: Define the maximum distance

between two curves to detect an intersection. A
D. Filtering: Define the minimum length of the

created curves (optional) B
C
D
On APPLY, detected
intersections are highlighted
by a square
On OK, a new geometrical set
is created, it contains the
curves that have been sliced.
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Adjust Nodes (1/2)

This function is used to connect several curves to a common vertex
A. Selected Curves: Select curves to adjust.
B. Max. deviation: You can choose a maximum

deformation value. If it is reached, a warning
message is displayed and the adjustment fails.
C. Max. Angle G1: You can also choose to give curves

A
the same tangent plane if their original angle is
smaller than the specified value
C
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Adjust Nodes (2/2)
D. Global Deformation: With the Global deformation option you

can change the shape of the adjusted curves
a. Local: The deformation is distributed on 1/3 of the curve
b. Global: The deformation is spread all along the curve D
Local Deformation Global Deformation
On OK, a new feature is created, the modified

curves are joined so that they are now
considered to be one element.
With a right-click the label, you can choose

to freeze the curve or choose if you want a
simple or tangent adjustment
When you want to use a curve which is a sub-

element of an Adjust Node feature (to do
another Adjust Node for instance), you have to
use the Geometrical Element Filter to select it.
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Cleaning Contour (1/2)

This function can be used to prepare curves before surface
creation, for example: by Powerfit. It makes them compatible by
giving them the same endpoints and on option the same tangent
planes.
A. Elements to join: Select the curves to process by clicking

or by a trap.
A
B. Closed Contour: Check this option if the created contour
must be closed.
B
C. Automatic Tangent Constraint: Activate the tangency
C
continuity constraint to make intersecting curves tangent.
D
D. Max Angle G1: If the tangency constraint is active: define
the maximum angle; if the angle between 2 curves is
greater than the value, the curves are not made tangent.
Right-click the label to choose if the

curve can be modified (free) or if it is

frozen (fixed)
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Cleaning Contour (2/2)
Global Deformation: With the Global deformation option you can

change the shape of the adjusted curves
a. Local: The deformation is distributed on 1/3 of the curve
b. Global: The deformation is spread all along the curve
Local Deformation Global Deformation
The result is a new feature

joining the modified curves.
When you want to use a curve which is a sub-element of a

Clean Contour feature (to do an Adjust Node for instance),
you have to use the Geometrical Element Filter to select it.
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Trimming a Clean Contour

This function can be used to split a cell created by
Clean Contour into 2 new cells
A. Elements to cut: Select the clean contour to
process (join). Selected clean contour must be
closed.
B. Cutting Elements: Select the splitting curve(s). A

Splitting curves must be connex.
Splitting curves must have only 2 intersections
with the clean contour. The result is a new
B geometrical set with
modified curves
C. Max Distance: Define the maximum distance and join surfaces
between two curves to detect an intersection. corresponding to
C new clean contours
CleanContour and Splitting CleanContour split

splitting curve CleanContour in to two parts
1 2
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Curve On Mesh (1/3)

This function is used to create a curve on the support mesh.
A. Support Mesh: Select the Cloud Mesh.
B. Parameters: You can specify the Smoothing Tolerance, as

well as the maximum order (Max. Order) and maximum
number of segments (Max. Segments) of the curve.
C. Display: By selecting the following button you can A

visualize, B
The curvature analysis of
the resulting curve.
The Maximum deviation of the C

resulting curve
The order and the number of

segments of the resulting
curve.
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Curve On Mesh (2/3)

D. Hide curve preview: Select the Cloud Mesh.
By default, the pointer

on the mesh indicates
the next pick.
D
By selecting the box, the
last picked endpoint is E
colored in red, and there is no
indication of the next pick.
D. Curve Optimization: By default the check box is selected.
When the mesh support is a large one, you can clear this check box to improve
performances during the creation of the curve.
In this case, however, the command will not optimize the number of segments nor the order
of the curve, meaning the maximum allowed values you have entered can be reached.
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Curve On Mesh (3/3)

Let us create a 3DCurve on mesh.
1. Select points on a mesh to build the curve. 1
2. Press Ctrl key: You can edit the position of

the point on the mesh. You can also see
the current type of constraint at that point.
3. Press Ctrl+ Right-click the point: You can

edit its continuity type or remove the point.
2
4. Press Ctrl+Shift key: You can visualize all
the constraints of the current curve.
4
3
Support mesh can be multi-cells element.
Instructor Notes:

Plastic Bottle
Step 2: Creating Curves
30 min
In this step, you will create curves on the digitized data by

smoothing the scans created in step 1 and modifying the
resulting curves with Wireframe and Surfaces.
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Creating Surfaces
In this lesson, you will learn how to create surfaces.
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Creating Canonical Surfaces (1/2)
This function identifies a canonical surface from an area of a cloud.

It creates associative features which can be modified afterwards.
Choose the expected canonical Give all known information about

shape if you know it the feature to create, for example
sphere center or cylinder axis
The deviation can also be

visualized with spikes
On clicking APPLY, statistics

on the distance between the
cloud and the detected
canonical shape are given to
evaluate the result
Note: Surfaces can also be created with GSD commands available in QSR
For Example: Multi-Section Surfaces
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Creating Canonical Surfaces (2/2)
When creating a plane, by clicking on In other cases the canonical shape can be modified
Apply button the detected plane can be afterwards by selecting its elements in the
modified by manipulators so that it fits specification tree
the area (orientate, trim or extend).
It may also be modified afterwards by
selecting its components in the
specification tree
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Creating Free Form Surfaces (1/5)

Power Fit combines the power of a filling function and a fitting function.
It approximates a NURBS surface from:
A cloud of points: The surface is fitted to the cloud
Boundary curves: The surface is limited by the curves, the boundary
curves do not need to define a closed contour.
If no cloud is given the function works like a Fill. But Power Fit can also create
a surface on a cloud with no specified boundary:
Select only points to take advantage The result consists in a large 4-sided
of the fitting capabilities surface covering the selected points
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Select a cloud of points and boundary

curves to take advantage of both
fitting and filling capabilities
Right-click the labels to choose the continuity level
The result is a trimmed surface

covering the selected points
The support surface is a regular 4-

sided surface
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A. Tolerance: Define maximum deviation expected

between the final surface and the points of the
selected cloud.
B. Cloud: Define the cloud of points (if any). Define an A
initialization surface if required. The created surface B
will respect the parameterization of the init surface. F
C
C. Init Surface: Define the boundary curves (if any).
D. Segments and Order: Define the maximum number E D
of spans in the resulting surface and the order of
each span.
E. Advanced: Check this option to access the advanced
NURBS computation parameters.
F. Define the use of the boundary curves:
a. Constraint: the boundary curves define the surface
boundaries (within tolerance)
b. Trim: the surface is computed only by fitting the
points. Boundary curves are then projected to the
surface and the surface is trimmed by the
projection. The distance between the curves and the

surface can thus be greater than the tolerance.
c. Selection: the curves are used only to select the
points of the cloud that will actually be used for
fitting.
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A. U and V Order: Define the order of the spans in

each parametric direction (U,V)
B. U and V Segment: Define the maximum number of
spans in each direction (U,V)
C. G0 and G1 Gap: Choose G0 and G1 gaps to set
point and tangency tolerances between
neighboring surfaces.
D. Tension: Define the surface tension: the value is A B
between 0 and 4, 4 means a flexible surface and 0 C
a more rigid one.
D
E
E. Radius: Activate this option to ignore points
located in a pipe around the boundary curves. It is
useful when curves are not accurately lying on the
cloud of points
pipe
boundary curves
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Click Show Information to get more

details about the created surface
You can also check the deviation with Spikes

or check the connections with neighboring
surfaces with Connect Checker
You can display the segmentation to

check the parametric distribution of the
surface
Instructor Notes:

Plastic Bottle
Step 3: Creating Surfaces
30 min
During this step, you will create surfaces on the digitized data by
identifying some canonical shape and creating free form surfaces.
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Plastic Bottle
Step 4: Creating the Rough Model
15 min
During this step, you will complete the model by

extrapolating and trimming surfaces.
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Plastic Bottle
Step 5: Filleting the Model
20 min
During this step, you will complete the model by filleting edges.
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Checking Deviation
In this lesson you will learn how to:
-Perform Deviation Analysis
-Create annotations on the Deviation Analysis results
-Generate reports of the Deviation Analysis
-Create curvature mapping
Instructor Notes:

Performing a Deviation Analysis (1/5)
Deviation analysis computes the geometrical deviation of a

data (curve or a surface) from a reference data.
Based on the deviation values, the results are displayed in
different colors. Each color represents a range of deviation A
values.
B
A. Reference: The reference element for deviation analysis.
C
B. To measure: The element for which deviation analysis is to
be calculated.
C. Parameters:
Accuracy: It is a computation accuracy.
Only orthogonal: It displays the points within a
common region between two surfaces.
Reference
To measure It displays the deviation It displays the deviation

for whole surface of common region
between two surfaces
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C. Parameters:
Absolute: It performs the analysis with positive
values only.
Direction: It performs the analysis with

respect to the specified projection direction.
Reference
To measure
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D. Visualization: The options in the visualization field of the
dialog box allow you to display the results in various
graphical formats.
D
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E. Advanced Parameters:
Homogeneous filtering: It reduces the number of
points using the sphere radius value.
Spheres
Radius= 3mm
It only keeps the center point

of the sphere
Threshold: It removes the points that have a deviation

higher than the value specified in the Threshold field.
E
Steps: It controls the length of the discretization

triangles for surfaces or volumes, or of the segments
for curves.
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F. Display Format: It shows different styles of color scale
and controls the decimal digits.
F
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Creating Annotations
Once you have performed a Deviation Analysis, you can create

annotations on the Deviation Analysis results. This task will
show you how to create Annotations.
As you select the Annotations tool, a deviation check
node and an Annotation set is created in the
specification tree.
You can create as many Annotation sets as required.
The Annotation dialog box consists of the following options: A

A. Annotation Set: It is a set under which the annotations will B
be created.
C
B. Deviation Analysis: It is the analysis on which the
annotations will be created.
C. Display: It displays the display format of the annotations.
1 2
You can annotate the specific point
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Creating Deviation Reports
Once you have performed a Deviation Analysis, you can create a Deviation Report from it.
Using the various tabs of the Deviation Report dialog box you can specify the information,
images, etc., that are to be included in the report.
3
1 4 5
2
HTML File
The Deviation Analysis Report is associative to

the Deviation Analysis and the annotations.
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Creating a Curvature Mapping
This command is able to display a curvature mapping on selecting a

mesh. For each vertex, the influent radius (explained below) defines a
sphere. All vertices and edges inside this sphere influence the
resulting curvature value at this vertex.
The curvature mapping dialog box consists of the following
options: A
A. Element: It is a mesh (cloud data).

B
B. Influent Radius: By default, it is 1/100 of the diagonal of C
the bounding box or else you can specify it.
C. Type: It is the type of curvature to apply from the drop-
down list.
Maximum and Minimum: A plane normal to the
surface cuts the surface along a curve that has a
given curvature in this point.
Bounding box
Absolute: It detects the surface areas where the of the mesh
surface is locally almost flat.
Mean: It is used to detect irregularities and warping
on the surface.
Gauss: It describes the local shape of a surface in
one point.
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Automatic Processes
In this lesson you will learn the tools like Curve network and Surface network,
which helps you to construct the surface more sophisticatedly using Automatic
processes.
Instructor Notes:

Creating a Network (1/5)
A network is a set of curves lying on a cloud of points and that divides the cloud
into areas which can be filled by a Power Fit.
A. Add/Remove Curve: List of curves to process.

Curves are usually selected by a trap.
B. Support: Support cloud: a cloud is necessary

for the computation of a network. Only meshes
can be used. A
C. Parameters: Same parameters as in Slice operator
for the detection of intersections.
B
= + +
C
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On clicking the Apply button, the following results can be observed:

1. The detected intersections are shown by green dots.
2. A new button ‘Deleting wire’ appears. It must be used when the network to create is
not closed (i.e. the surface to create is not closed). Click it to access the delete wire
mode, the greatest cell of the network is highlighted. Select other curves if you want to
delete another cell. Click it once again, the cell to delete is defined.
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A. Node tolerance: Usually same as Max distance.
B. Automatic tangency: Detects tangent curves up

to the given threshold value and preserves
detected tangency during network creation. The A
detected tangencies are shown by cyan lines. If
all the expected tangencies have not been B
detected, you can increase the value of the
threshold angle. C
D
C. Projection on support: When activated, all the
network curves are projected (normal projection) E
onto the support cloud within the specified
tolerance.
D. Global Deformation: With the Global deformation

option you can change the shape of the adjusted
curves.
Local: The deformation is distributed on 1/3
of the curve. B
Global: The deformation is spread all along
the curve.
E. Default constraints: Reset all parameters to their

default values.
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List of Curves to freeze: Curves are usually selected one

by one with this option. The frozen curves will remain the
same after the creation of the network
A. Distance at Nodes: Display of gap between each
couple of input curves, at the nodes.
B. Curve- Curve Deviation: Expected number of points

within tolerance = the subdivision process stops
when the value in % is reached.
C. Curve-Mesh Deviation: Display of the deviation

between the mesh support and curve network. A
D. Curvature: Display of the curvature along curve E
network’s edges.
B
E. Max. Deviation: For B and C , possibility to display F
the Max deviation C
F. Spike Density: You can modify the spikes scale D G

and/or density for a better visualization.
G. Display of deviation statistics with the percentage of

the network’s points which are at a lower distance
than the distance set above.
Instructor Notes:

Avoid situations where a selected curve have two or more

intersections with another selected curve (cell with only
2 boundary curves).
Only one intersection can be taken as a connection.
In this case split one of the curves into two curves before creating the network.
Check the connections marked with a green dot before creating

the network.
If an expected connection is not found:
increase the value of Max. Distance
If an unexpected connection is found:
decrease the value of Max. Distance
Sometimes the network cannot be created and an error message is displayed. The curves
which cause the failure are highlighted on the model.
In this case, check the highlighted curves

and use Slice and Adjust node to process
them manually before creating the network
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Creating Surface on a Network (1/3)
Once a network has been created, all cells can be filled automatically by surfaces
using the Surfaces Network command.
=Σ
A. Curve Network: Name of network to fill

A
B. Cloud: Name of support cloud. You may deactivate the B
option to ignore the cloud.
C. Parameters: Same parameters as in Power Fit operator.
D. Compute with Ribbons: Compute ribbons: possibility to C

choose between two possible algorithms.
If not active: each surface is made tangent to the
already computed surfaces. The result depends on
the filling order.
If active: all tangency constraints are computed first,
then surfaces are computed using the tangency D E
constraints. The filling order has no impact on the
result.
E. Reset Parameters: Reset all parameters to their default

values
Instructor Notes:

Once a network has been created, all cells can be filled automatically by surfaces
using the Surfaces Network command.
Flags show for each cell of Arrows show the
the network if it is selected or requested level of
not. Only selected cells are continuity between
filled by surfaces. neighboring cells.
You can select or unselect a You change the
cell by clicking the flag continuity from point to
tangent by clicking the
arrow.
selected not selected
A right-click on the flag lets
you access more possibilities point tangent
to select cells of the network A right-click the arrow
lets you choose the
continuity for the curve
or the whole network.
Instructor Notes:

When a surface is created in a cell, it becomes a constraint for the creation of the next
surfaces. As a result the filling order has an impact on the result.
You may reduce the impact of the order by checking Compute with ribbons.
Then surfaces are no longer used as tangency constraints for following surfaces.
You may also activate only one cell, usually an easy one located near the middle of the
model, and compute the surface.Then when you swap the selection, the filling starts
from the computed surface.
If the result is OK except for some cells, it may be convenient to remove the bad surfaces
and create only the good ones.
The removed surfaces can be recreated

afterwards with PowerFit.
Instructor Notes:

Creating Automatic Surfaces (1/4)
Automatic Surface creates surfaces in one shot on any mesh.

It approximates a surface using a subdivision technology.
The resulting surface is made of G1 faces. If the mesh is closed

(no free edge) the surface is also closed and can be used directly
to create a solid.
Select a mesh… A single multi-face surface is created

Instructor Notes:

A. Mesh: Select the mesh.
B. Hide/Show mesh to process. A B

C. Surface Detail: Surface detail to increase for tiny
shape details.
C
Surface detail; to increase for tiny shape details
Surface detail 200 Surface detail 1000

Number of facets in subdivision base mesh:
increase the value to better reproduce small shape
details, but the number of faces also increases (data
size increased)
Instructor Notes:

D. Free Edge Tolerance:
Chord error on mesh boundaries; must be activated

for open surfaces
Not active Active with 1mm

Instructor Notes:

A. Mean Surface Deviation: Expected tolerance on

mesh points given as mean distance between
surface and mesh (not max. distance).
B. Free Edge Tolerance: Expected number of points

within tolerance = the subdivision process stops A
when the value in % is reached.
Display options to validate

result: you can display deviation
as spikes
• Mesh deviation
• Free edge deviation
Instructor Notes:

Additional Exercises
In this lesson, you will be presented with additional exercices for practice.
Exercise: Car Body

Exercise: Toy Plastic Part
Exercise:Washing Powder Bottle
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Car Body
Exercise
2 hrs
Starting from a cloud of points, use the Automatic Surface process to rapidly make your
model adapted to required precision.
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Toy Plastic Part

Exercise
2 hrs
Starting from a cloud of points, rebuild the full model using

a full network approach
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Washing Powder Bottle

Exercise
2 hrs
Starting from the cloud of points, rebuild the full model using a manual network approach
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To Sum Up
In this course you have seen:
How to construct a surface using Point Cloud data
How to create Scans using Curvature Analysis and Isoslope Computation
How to create Sketches,Curves from a Scan
How to create Canonical Surfaces and Free Form Surfaces
How to create Curves on network and Surfaces on network
How to create Automatic Surfaces.

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Quick Surface Reconstruction

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About this course

following domain(s): CATIA V5 fundamentals, Digitized Shape

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Table of Contents (1/3)

Quick Surface Reconstruction: Introduction 6

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Table of Contents (2/3)

Exercise: Toy Plastic Part 73

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Table of Contents (3/3)

Exercise:Washing Powder Bottle 74

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Quick Surface Reconstruction: Introduction

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Accessing the Workbench

The ‘Quick Surface Reconstruction’ workbench can be accessed from

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User Interface (1/2) 16 functions specific to QSR

Other functions are imported from other workbenches

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User Interface (2/2)

Surface Network Curves Network

Automatic Surface Curvature Mapping

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In this exercise, you will learn how to rebuild a surface

The exercise steps are presented at the end of every

In this process you will perform the exercise steps in

Creating the Rough Model

Filleting the Model

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Using Curvature Analysis (1/4)

A. Influent Radius: Define the radius value. By

B. Parameters: Define the curvature value or select a

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Using Curvature Analysis (2/4)

D. Filter: Define a filtering value to

Filtering value set to 0

Filtering value set to 500

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Using Curvature Analysis (3/4)

E. Display: Display the temporary curvature

Display value set to 25

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Using Curvature Analysis (4/4)

F. Results: Choose output options for the result.

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Using Isoslope Computation (1/2)

A. Angle Values: Define the angle value or select a

B. Compass Angle: Define the reference direction

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Using Isoslope Computation (2/2)

C. Results: Choose output options for the result.

Create the isoslope scan(s)

Split the mesh by the isoslope scan(s)

Scans can also be created with DSE commands available in QSR

Project Curves Planar Sections Create Free Edges