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Largest radius in SE

Largest radius in SE

Largest radius in SE

(OP)
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

RE: Largest radius in SE

Hi,

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

(OP)
Thanks for your reply.

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

No, it doesn't turn wireframe like.

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

(OP)
Thank you Fred.

That answers my question, I appreciate your help.

Tom Stanley

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