Graphics Programs Reference
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FIGURE 23.30
Where you click on
objects affects the
outcome.
Click here …
… and here
… to get this surface.
Click here …
… and here
… to get this surface.
Tabulated Mesh
The Tabulated Mesh tool is like an extrude tool for surfaces (see Figure 23.31). Chapter 19,
“Creating 3D Drawings,” showed you how you can use the Extrude tool to create a 3D solid from
a closed polygon. The Extrude tool will also work on open polygons, lines, and arcs, but it will
extrude the object in only a perpendicular direction. The Tabulated Surface tool lets you “extrude”
an object in a direction you control with a line. The line can point in any direction in space.
FIGURE 23.31
The Tabulated
Surface
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1
Here's how to use it:
1. Type TABSURF ↵.
2. Select the object that defines the profile of your mesh.
3. Click the object that defines the direction for the surface.
As with the other surface mesh tools, the point at which you select objects will affect the way
the object is generated. For the tabulated mesh, the direction of the mesh depends on where you
click the line that defines the surface direction.
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