MechDesigner Reference & User Interface > 2: Model-Editor, Mechanism-Editor, Part-Editor > Part-Editor: > Geometry > Geometry

Toolbar :

Part-Editor : Geometry toolbar

Menu :

Part-Editor : Add menu > Geometry sub-menu> > Add Spline

To add :

Note: Add Spline is the only sketch-element (other than Add Point) in which you do NOT drag your mouse-pointer.

1.Part-Editor: Click Geometry toolbar >Add Spline

2.Part-Editor: Click in the graphic-area to add first Point / Node of the Spline

- or -

Part-Editor: Click an Point of a different sketch-element, as the first Point / Node of the Spline

3.Part-Editor: Continue to click at different places in the graphic-area to add more nodes

To end Add Spline:

4.Part-Editor: Click the first node again to add a Closed Spline
- or -
Part-Editor: Click the last node again to add an Open Spline.

The Spline sketch-element is now in the graphic-area.

Edit the Node's Position

1.Part-Editor: Add a dimension, to the node to edit its position.

2.Part-Editor: Drag the node to a new position.

1.Double-click a node in the Part-Editor or the Mechanism-Editor

Edit the Spline's Angle at the Node

1.Part-Editor: Click the Spline to show the Spline-Handles

2.Part-Editor: Drag the arrowhead of a spline-handle in a different direction

Edit the Spline's Curvature at the Node

1.Part-Editor: Click the Spline to show the Spline-Handles

2.Drag the arrowhead of a spline-handle further from or nearer to a node

An open and closed Spline.
Spline-handles at the nodes.

Notes:

•A Spline may be open or closed.

To show the spline-handles, click the Spline.

•The direction of the spline is normal to the spline-handle

•The curvature of the spline is proportional to the length of the spline-handle

•The curvature of the spline is symmetrical to the two sides of the spline-handle.

To hide the spline-handles (default), click the Spline again.

Geometry | Spline