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Tubular Offset Enhancement
 
 
 

You can now select one or more secondary surfaces with positionally (G0) continuous edges which they share with your primary surface. The tubular offset is still built from the selected edge(s) of the primary surface(s). The secondary surfaces are trimmed or have curves-on-surface created on them by the tubular offset.

Using this new capability along with the Chain select option further increases efficiency.

  1. Choose Surface > Rolled edge > Tubular offset
  2. Click on the edge (isoparm or curve-on-surface) of the primary surface. You can use the Chain Select option to select all edges tangent continuous with it if you want.

    The Pick Chooser window appears if the selected edge intersects with other geometry.

  3. Select the primary surface through the Pick Chooser.

    The surface turns pink to indicate that it’s selected. The edge of the surface turns yellow showing the path of the tubular offset.

  4. Select one or more secondary surfaces with positionally (G0) continuous edges shared with an edge of the primary surface. Hold the Shift key to select them through the pick chooser, or use a pick box to select them all at once.

    The secondary surfaces turn pink.

    NoteYou can combine steps 2 to 4 by using a pick box to select all surfaces, if you are not concerned about the order of primary and secondary surfaces. This will also work when Chain Select is turned on.
  5. Click the Recalc button in the bottom right corner of the window.

    The tubular offset is built on all selected surfaces.