- [Instructor] One feature that is very cool to use
when you're trying to segment, or make equal value sketches
on top of surfaces, is the Face Curves tool.
So, it's very easy to use, and like the description says,
it extracts isoparametric curves from a face,
and then, converts them into a 3D sketch.
What does that mean?
Let's click on the feature and find out.
So, I'm just going to start by clicking on this top face.
Alright, as you can see,
we've pretty much generated what this sketch is going to be.
Because this is on a flat face,
it's essentially a 2D sketch,
but it will come up as a 3D sketch.
You can see here,
I can show what the mesh is going to be,
so if I want to have six sections,
one, two, three, four, five sections,
but six lines,
one, two, three, four, five, six blue lines,
and the red lines, one, two, three, four five.
So, we can adjust these if I want 10 lines.
If I want them to be equal, I can make them equal.
It's whatever you want.
You can constrain them to the model or not.
If you want to ignore holes
and go around holes inside of here, you can do that as well.
You can set the orientation by the vertex.
So here, we can
set a percentage from that position.
So, here I've got 50/50.
So, if we wanted to make a crosshatch
that was some percentage or ratio positioned in there,
we can, or we can just switch it back and make a mesh.
I'm going to go ahead and hit okay.
It's just going to take a second, and you can see here
that it's created a sketch,
a 3D sketch for each line segment.
Now, this is not necessarily the handiest way
to handle creating this sketch.
It might be better if it was just one 3D sketch
or one 2D sketch, with all these entities in it,
but this still gives you the ability
to reference this in other geometry.
We can also do this around cylindrical objects,
as you can see.
It's not too difficult, you just select your face,
and then hit the green check mark,
and it creates those sketch entities for you.
Now, if I go ahead and hide the bodies
that I have in my model,
we can see what those 3D sketches look like.
So, you can see, this is a pretty awesome tool
if you're trying to divide up a piece of material
or section a certain face.
You can do this on complex surfaces as well.