b'Meshing CAD With CAM users to take advantage of otherengineering a part into a surface new mesh tools. The feature checksmodel can be tedious. If splines are for folded facets and offers the op- not aligned, ripples can form, twist-for more precise machining and im- tion of deleting facets that containing the surface. In this case, con-proved surface finish quality. Pro- errors. One particular challenge ad- verting the surface to a mesh, then grammers can fix scan imperfec- dressed by new CAD tools is rip- smoothing it, was the best strategy.tions to create contiguous toolpathpled surface models that startedInstead of trying to resurface motion, reduce unnecessary detailsas scans. Programmers can converta part, the Meshes From Entities that enlarge file size, and make filessurfaces to a mesh, then isolate andCAD tool enables conversion of suitable for toolpath creation. smooth areas to achieve smootha surface to a mesh. Applying the Meshes always have presentedcuts. It sounds simple, but smooth- Smooth Area feature to the new challenges for machining, but withing the model surface makes a bigmesh allows users to go in and pick advances in reverse engineering,difference in cutting techniques. an area by facets. The cursor, which such challenges are becoming evenA customer recently tried to ma- looks like a small disc, then per-more prevalent. To address thesechine an intake runner for a car.mits application of various smooth-and other potential issues for ma- The goal was to achieve a smoothing toolsa user-friendly process chining, Check Mesh analyzes andfinish, but the provided surfacesimilar to virtual coloring. Users can fixes problem areas to preparemodel contained ripples. Scanningapply a toolpath directly on the models for programming, allowingan intake runner is tricky; reversemesh and surrounding surface or The resulting part shows the bust of Abraham Lincoln after machining using Mastercams mesh editing and toolpaths.CNC Software24OCTOBER 2022 DesignSoftward.indd 24 9/20/22 3:44 PM'