Validating surface designs with Zebra Analysis, Surface Analysis, and Curvature Analysis
Inventor has a range of analysis tools that focus on surfaces and surface quality. This is important, as often as a designer, you need to ensure and validate the surface design before manufacture and ensure that the surfaces blend or transition appropriately without any sharp changes in curvature or smoothness. This can be particularly important for molded components and products.
In this recipe, you will make use of three of the common surface analysis tools: Zebra Analysis, Surface Analysis, and Curvature Analysis.
Getting ready
For this recipe, open Bike_Saddle.ipt in the Chapter 4 folder.
How to do it…
First, we will examine the part, then apply the relevant surface analysis tool and examine the results. To do this, see the following:
- To begin, we will examine the Surface Inspection tools. Select the Inspect tab, go to the Analysis panel, and then select Surface...
