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Surface contrinuity

Surface contrinuity

Surface contrinuity

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I have a cam profile which is composed of several curved faces.  Is there a way to join all those faces into one continuous profile?  
Thanks  

RE: Surface contrinuity

This may be an over simplified answer but if all surfaces are touching you could just sew them if you could take a snap shot might be able to give you a better soultion.

Ryan Lee
Design Engineer
Constar International Inc.

RE: Surface contrinuity

OK, try this.

Using...

Insert -> Curve from Curves -> Join...

...and setting the 'Output Curve Type' to 'General', select the profile curves of the cam.  This will result in a single continous curve.  Now use THIS curve to sweep out a new cam.  This time there should only be a single face for the cam surface.  

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