User Guide
User Guide
User Guide

Analyze Curvature

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(3D only) Used to visualize the curvature of a curve or Gaussian curvature of a surface.

To visualize the curvature of a curve or surface
  1. Select the curve or surface.

  2. Select the Analyze Curvature tool.
    The element is rendered with coloring according to its curvature: Sharply curved regions are displayed in purple while flat regions are displayed in red; intermediate regions are displayed using a range of colors in between those extremes.

Alternative Method — To visualize the curvature of a curve or surface
  1. Select the Analyze Curvature tool.

  2. Identify the curve or surface.
    The element is rendered with coloring according to its curvature.

Key-in: ANALYZE CURVATURE RELATIVE