Creating Complex Geometry
Adams View provides you with many ways in which you can take simple geometry and create complex geometry from it. You can create solid geometry that has mass from wire geometry or create complex, open geometry that has no mass.
Chaining Wire Geometry
To chain wire Construction geometry together:
1. If necessary, create the wire geometry.
3. Click each piece of the wire geometry to be chained. As you move the cursor around the main window, Adams View highlights those objects in your model that can be chained.
4. After selecting the geometry to be chained, right-click to create the chained geometry.
Extruding Construction Geometry Along a Path
You can add thickness to Construction geometry by extruding it to create three-dimensional geometry. You can extrude lines, polylines, polygons, and wire geometry that you have chained together. You cannot extrude points. If the geometry you extrude is closed, Adams View creates solid geometry that has mass. Adams View centers the extruded geometry about the z-axis of the view screen or working grid, if it is turned on.
When you extrude geometry, you select the geometry that you want to extrude, called the profile geometry, and then you select the wire geometry that defines the path along which you want to extrude the profile. See an Example of Extrusion.
The geometry you extrude can be a new part or belong to another part, which you specify when you extrude the geometry.
Extrusion Limits
You can only select to extrude a profile whose extrusion would have the following properties:
■No intersecting lines.
Objects with these properties are called manifold. If the object extruded did not have these properties, it would be non-manifold.
If the result of an extrusion is an object that is non-manifold, you receive the following error message when you try to create the extrusion:
! ERROR: Creation of the feature failed
! ERROR: The body created is non-manifold.
Remake the profile so that it does not result in a non-manifold extrusion.
To extrude construction geometry:
1. If necessary, create the construction geometry.
3. In the settings container, do the following (you can ignore all other settings):
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the extruded geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦Select Along Path.
♦Select Analytical to create the revolution using the Analytical Method. Clear to use the Non-analytical Method.
4. Select the construction geometry to be extruded.
5. Select the construction geometry defining the path along which you want to extrude the geometry.