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Version 2.0

The Solid Modeler: Model Modification

Blending

• attach a chamfer/constant radius/variable radius blend attribute to specified edge(s)
• report an edge's/vertex's blend type and the associated internal data values
• get the list of edges and vertices in the same blend network as a given edge or vertex
• get a list of edges that form a smoothly connected chain containing a given edge
• create a blend on an edge of a nonmanifold body by temporarily manifolding the body in the neighborhood of the edge
• create blends on a collection of edges and vertices that form a single blend network
• create cylindrical/chamfer blends on a list of edges
• remove blend attributes, if any, from an edge/vertex
• create a fillet blend on two edge entities with rays

Booleans

• intersect/subtract/unite two or more bodies, either regularizing the result or not
• regularize an entity
• combine specified faces on a body
• combine faces and edges of equivalent geometry
• intersect two curves/edges
• get the normal projection of a position onto a curve/edge
• project an edge onto a plane
• project a position onto a line/plane
• join two bodies along their intersection graph
• imprint their intersection graph onto the faces of two bodies
• slice a solid with a plane to produce a wire body
• get the intersection graph between two bodies and return it as a wire body
• split each of a body's periodic faces along its seams
• join two bodies along edges and vertices of identical geometry

Covering

• fit a surface over a single closed wire, a single closed loop of curves/wires, or a collection of wires which are either all closed or all open

Deformable Surfaces

• add a circular/straight constraint/load
• add a distributed pressure
• add a curve load along a parabolic arc in parameter space
• add a curve load between a straight parameter space curve and either a line or an ellipse
• add a point constraint/pressure load
• add a spring load/set of spring loads
• copy a deformable surface's shape and model data back to the corresponding face
• transform a curve load into a curve constraint and vice versa
• print the parameters of a deformable surface model
• increase the polynomial degree of a deformable model's basis functions
• remove and delete a nonpersistent deformable surface model from a face
• expand a face's surface by 5% in all possible directions
• get/set the parameters that determine a deformable surface's resistance to stretch/bending/perturbation from default shape
• get/set the factors that determine the representation of a deformable surface's curvature combs
• get/set the selector that determines whether the default shape feature is in use
• get a list of a deformable surface's degree of freedom counts
• get/set the combination of deformable model data that is rendered
• get/set the time integral data (effective mass, damping, time step size) for a deformable surface model's time simulation
• get the number of finite elements used in a deformable surface
• get/set the size of icon used when rendering tag objects
• get the position of a tag object's image point or a location on a deformable model selected by a pick-event
• get/set the accuracy of spatial integrations executed on a deformable model
• get/set the gain value of a load tag-object
• get/set the number of mesh polygons used to render a deformable surface shape
• get/set the parametric position of a constraint point, pressure point, spring load
• get/set the model space position of a control point, constraint point, spring load
• get u and v direction degree values for a deformable surface's basis functions
• report the tag IDs and the associated tag types for all current tag objects in a deformable surface
• get a tag object's tag ID
• get the parametric position of a location selected by a pick-event on a deformable surface
• get the tag ID of a tag object selected by a pick-event
• remove a load or constraint tag object from a deformable surface
• solve the deformable modeling equations to yield a new deformable model shape
• split the existing deformable model elements
• create a simple spline face for testing the deformable surface functions
• sample a simple curve function at a set of random points
• enable/disable a point/curve constraint

Local Operations

• move the faces of a body by translation/offsetting/rotating/tapering/tweaking

Projecting

• project an edge onto a plane

Shelling

• hollow out a solid by offsetting its faces and subtracting

Sweeping

• create/extend a solid by revolving a face/wire about an axis
• create/extend a solid by sweeping a planar face/wire along a gvector
• sweep a face/wire about an axis as a sheet or as a solid
• sweep a face/wire along a path given by a wire body or a single edge, optionally onto a surface
• sweep a face/wire along a gvector or by a given distance along its normal
• sweep a face/wire rigidly along a path or a gvector
• sweep a face/wire along a path with a twist

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