Largest radius in SE
Largest radius in SE
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What is the largest radius that can be modelled (drawn) in Solid Edge as a true radius, that is not approximated by a spline or something?
SolidWorks has a restriction where nothing can be drawn outside of a one kilometer box. This includes arcs where the center of the arc is outside of this one kilometer box.
I've been told that this is a restriction of the Parasolid kernel. Since both programs use the same Parasolid kernel, I was wondering if the same restriction applies to Solid Edge?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Tom Stanley
SolidWorks has a restriction where nothing can be drawn outside of a one kilometer box. This includes arcs where the center of the arc is outside of this one kilometer box.
I've been told that this is a restriction of the Parasolid kernel. Since both programs use the same Parasolid kernel, I was wondering if the same restriction applies to Solid Edge?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Tom Stanley





RE: Largest radius in SE
the solid you build has to fit inside a cube centered around the origin with a side length of 1km.
That's the limit after which the display becomes wireframe like. It's still working though because you can keep adding feature and make a draft. Exporting in step gives a weird invisible solid though...
The limit when it actually fails is around 10kms.
For assemblies, there doesn't seem to be a limit (I tried up to 1000kms).
HTH
Fred
RE: Largest radius in SE
Supposing you had a model of a beam that fit inside the kilometer box, but it was curved with a large radius so that the center of the curve was outside the box,would it turn like wireframe in that case?
Tom Stanley
RE: Largest radius in SE
The solid itself has to be outside of the box. If it's just the center of the arc, the model is displayed normally.
Fred
RE: Largest radius in SE
That answers my question, I appreciate your help.
Tom Stanley