Curves ProfileSupport

Curves ProfileSupport
Menu location
Surfaces → Profile support plane
Workbenches
Curves
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Description

The Curves ProfileSupport tool creates a support plane for sketches.

Usage

1. There are several ways to invoke the tool:
   • Press the Profile support plane button.
   • Select the Surfaces → Profile support plane option from the menu.
2. A Profile object is created.

Notes

To see a workflow how this tool can be used to construct a curved section of a guitar body, see this forum reply from Chris_G (author of the Curves Workbench).

Properties

See also: Property editor.

A Profile object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:

Data

Profile

• Data (Dynamic)Edge1 (LinkSub): First support edge.
• Data (Dynamic)Edge2 (LinkSub): Second support edge.
• Data (Dynamic)MainAxis (Vector): Main axis of the sketch.
• Data (Dynamic)Parameter1 (Float): Parameter on first edge.
• Data (Dynamic)Parameter2 (Float): Parameter on second edge.