Dynaform Split line by UV plane

Split Line by UV-Plane Preprocess Date: Feb... Description Figure 3 • By Cursor: Split the line by the point of cursor.. By selecting this option the user can split the line by cursor

Split Line by UV-Plane

Preprocess

Date: Feb 14th, 2014

Outline

A new way for the user to split the line by UV-Plane was added

Description

•  In previous versions, DYNAFORM popped-up the Input Coordinate dialog box after selecting

the target line

•  In DYNAFORM 5.9.2, the Split Line dialog box is opened

Previous versions

In DYNAFORM5.9.2

Description

Figure 3

•  By Cursor: Split the line by the point of cursor By selecting this option

the user can split the line by cursor directly without clicking the Select

Cursor button Users can also click the Select Cursor button to split the

line by cursor See Figure a

•  By Point: Split the line by the selected point on the line Users can select

the point directly, or click the Select Point button If clicking the Select

Point button, the Input Coordinate (See Figure d) dialog box is opened

The dialog box can help users select points as in old versions See Figure

c and Figure d

•  By Plane: Users must click the Create Plane button to create the cut

plane See Figure b

•  By UV Line: With this function, the user can use the UV line to split the

line

(d)

Description

•  Select a surface and the UV line of the surface is highlighted The UV line is named

U-Direction and V direction See the figures below

Note: The UV line of the selected surface must have the intersection point with the selected line,

or it will fail to split

Select Surface

Procedures

Figure 1

1.  Start up Dynaform 5.9.2 and open the model file named split line.df See Figure 1

2.  Go to UserSetup-> Preprocess See Figure 2

3.  Select the Line tab in the Preprocess window See Figure 3

4.  Click the Split Line button on the Line tab

Procedures

5.  It will pop up the Select Line dialog box See Figure 4

6.  Select the Line that you need to split See Figure 5

7.  Select By UV Line option See Figure 6

8.  Click the Select Surface button and select the surface that you want to use it’s UV-line to

trim See Figure 7

Procedures

9.  Move the cursor to adjust the UV Plane

10.  Left-click the mouse button to confirm the selection The selected direction will be

highlighted See Figure 8

11.  It will open the DYNAFORM Question dialog box Click “Yes” and the line will be split by

the highlighted direction See Figure 9

Tips: If the highlighted direction is not right, the user can click “No” to switch the UV-direction

of the surfaces See Figure 10