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Surface tangent to another surface

Surface tangent to another surface

RE: Surface tangent to another surface

The attached example shows a Surface 'Through Curves' where the first Section is tangent to the gray surface whereas the second Section is simply connected to the orange surface. If you edit the green surface you'll see how it was created.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Surface tangent to another surface

(OP)
Hello John,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
That's not actually what I'm looking for. Sorry I didn't explain my request clearly

Please see the attached picture

Isocline and Silhouette Curves does not create what I need.

The surface needs to be connected to the curved surface along it tangentially as sort of indicated in the picture.
Regards
Ian

RE: Surface tangent to another surface

Ok, here's a solution using the 'Section Surface' function with the Type set to 'Linear'. You can see what other settings I used by simply editing the Green surface.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Surface tangent to another surface

(OP)
Hello John,
That's what I was looking for.
Many thanks.
Ian

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