Summary

Besides modeling with solids, for some projects, surfaces can be useful. This chapter includes all commands related to surfaces and meshes, objects that do not have thickness. We started by identifying all categories that were developed in the chapter.

Besides the EXTRUDE, REVOLVE, SWEEP, and LOFT commands (presented in Chapter 4, Creating Solids and Surfaces from 2D) and the EXTRUDE and CONVTOSURFACE commands (presented in Chapter 5, 3D Primitives and Conversions), several other procedural surfaces commands are available, which are as follow:

• SURFNETWORK: This command is used to create a surface from two sets of linear objects

• SURFBLEND: This command is used to create a surface connecting two existing surfaces

• SURFPATCH: This command is used to create a surface that closes a hole or an opening

• SURFEXTEND: This command is used to create a surface by extending existing surfaces from selected edges

• SURFOFFSET: This command is used to create surfaces parallel to the selected surfaces...