[Issue #6189] Surface to surface tangency

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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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Pauvres_honteux wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:25 am As of this moment in time, the latest AppImage reads 0.19.22492.
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And under what function/clickable icon did you put it?
I don't have an icon so far. That's why you must start it from the menu.
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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Would someone volunteer to write some clear instructions on how to use this feature?
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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wmayer wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:10 am
Pauvres_honteux wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:25 am As of this moment in time, the latest AppImage reads 0.19.22492.
0.19.22518
And under what function/clickable icon did you put it?
I don't have an icon so far. That's why you must start it from the menu.
I've been reading along here for quite a while now and find the efforts very good. I offer myself as beta tester.
@Werner, please explain in a short example how I create a new surface between two surfaces which is tangential to the two original surfaces. As soon as I have understood how to do this, I will publish it in the German Forum.

Thank you very much and best regards
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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wmayer wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:10 am I don't have an icon so far. That's why you must start it from the menu.
Shall I x-post to the UI/UX subforum for help on this ?
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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wmayer wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:20 pm With this code snippet you can create the section curves as in the example:
I'm testing this.

Can this new object use as input a wire? Or should it be an individual edge only? That means it would only be usable with curved edges, like B-splines.
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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Only edges can be used. The actual algorithm is GeomFill_NSections that requires a list of curves. The curves are obtained from the selected edges.
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freecad-heini-1 wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:54 pm I've been reading along here for quite a while now and find the efforts very good. I offer myself as beta tester.
@Werner, please explain in a short example how I create a new surface between two surfaces which is tangential to the two original surfaces. As soon as I have understood how to do this, I will publish it in the German Forum.

Thank you very much and best regards
Wilfried
Don't you remember that you've already used it and even made a video about it?
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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wmayer wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:10 am
And under what function/clickable icon did you put it?
I don't have an icon so far. That's why you must start it from the menu.
Would one of these be adequate? Roughly based on your code for the demo edges a few posts back and being consistent with the other Surface icons.
Surface_Sections1.svg
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which at 2 different resolutions looks like this
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Surface_Sections1_l.png
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Surface_Sections2.svg
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which at 2 different resolutions looks like this
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Surface_Sections2_l.png
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Re: Surface to surface tangency

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Would one of these be adequate? Roughly based on your code for the demo edges a few posts back and being consistent with the other Surface icons.
Thanks! They are great!

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