Hello,

Aside from the control point modeling it looks like the shape factor slider can control how that actually looks. I believe you're right about the ICEM connection, I think at least one person over there at VSR had some heavy involvement in that product.

Hi Luis,

> Here is the result using cover surface tool on sharfx to make a cover on the hole (I think viacad also have this one)

This one I think is definitely better than the previous one that came straight from filleting - this one is both lighter in control point count and also "stiffer" with less lumpiness to it.

That's very interesting that it's fairly different from the one that comes from filleting. I wonder if it's actually using a different mechanism for generating the surface or whether it's just a different set of parameters for the surface generation...

It instead though has a different problem where it's noticeably not G1 to much of the boundary areas though, note the sharp creases in these areas:



- Michael

Hello Martin, thanks, glad to see you here too, seems that we are same kind of people on the same quest: Hunting of good 3d software :)

Regarding this topic, I don get the way to do this patch on Moi, so, back to via cad/shark, I do a few more tests and seems that the key is to use the rebuild surface tool on the patch blend surface, this way, moi imports Sat, Step and IGS format without problem



Michael:
Notice that my first attempt I use the 3dm model downloaded from this forum that doesn't have the patch, and I patch the hole using the cover surface tool, so, maybe an internal rebuild occur on the process and that is the difference with previous ones,

Martin: In this ones I make a model using the blend tool with setback at 80 (working with mm), then rebuild the surface in question, here both files, the sat resulted from exporting and Moi file with the imported file: