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Advanced Quilt Flattening Techniques

The document describes four CAD modeling techniques: 1. Flatten Quilt flattens a 3D quilt onto a 2D plane with a specified origin point. 2. Solid Free Form creates a 3D solid object by modifying a surface with control points. 3. Surface Free Form similarly creates a surface object by modifying a surface mesh. 4. N-sided Patch draws a surface object like a circle or polygon with a specified number of sides. Vertex Round trims corners of a quilt with a specified radius.

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Advanced Quilt Flattening Techniques

The document describes four CAD modeling techniques: 1. Flatten Quilt flattens a 3D quilt onto a 2D plane with a specified origin point. 2. Solid Free Form creates a 3D solid object by modifying a surface with control points. 3. Surface Free Form similarly creates a surface object by modifying a surface mesh. 4. N-sided Patch draws a surface object like a circle or polygon with a specified number of sides. Vertex Round trims corners of a quilt with a specified radius.

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Click Insert ▶ Advanced ▶ Flatten Quilt. The FLATTEN QUILT dialog box opens.

Select a source quilt to flatten

Select a datum point on the quilt to be the origin point. Two red arrows indicate the u-v
directions of the quilt

Solid Free Form:


Draw solid object
For ex: as shown in figure

 Click Insert ▶ Advanced ▶ Solid Free Form.


 Menu Manager open
 Select Pick Surf and Done
 Free Form dialog box open
 Select any one surface of the object
 Enter number of control curves in specified direction- 5  or

 Enter number of control curves in specified direction- 8  or

 Grids are shown in specified surface and Modify Surface


dialog box open
 Pick and drag points for changing solid surface
 Point movements are changed by changing the following
1. Movement Plane (first direction, second direction,
normal direction) The resulting object is
2. Region (first direction, second direction)
3. Sliders (first direction, second direction, normal
direction, sensitivity)
4. Diagnostics (gauss curvature, slope)
 Click
Surface Free Form:
Draw surface quilt
For ex: as shown in figure

 Click Insert ▶ Advanced ▶ Surface Free Form.


 Surface Free Form dialog box open
 Select surface
 Enter number of control curves in specified direction- 9  or

 Enter number of control curves in specified direction- 9  or

 Grids are shown in specified surface and Modify Surface The resulting object is
dialog box open
 Pick and drag points for changing surface
 Point movements are changed by changing the following
5. Movement Plane (first direction, second direction,
normal direction)
6. Region (first direction, second direction)
7. Sliders (first direction, second direction, normal
direction, sensitivity)
8. Diagnostics (gauss curvature, slope)
 Click

N-sided Patch:
Draw surface object with number of sided
For ex: as shown in figure

 Click Insert ▶ Advanced ▶ Conic Surface and N-sided Patch.


 Menu Manager dialog box open
 Select N-sided Surf and Done.
 Surface: N-sided Menu and CHAIN OPT menu open
 Select number of edges of the surface and click ok
 Select base surface and Done
 Select Ok
 The resulting object is

Vertex Round:
It is used to trimming corner of quilt
Draw quilt as shown in figure
 Click Insert ▶ Advanced ▶ Vertex Round.
 Surface Trim: Vertex Round dialog box open The resulting quilt is
 Select quilt
 Select corners of quilt (with pressing ctrl) and select ok
 Enter Trimming Radius – 70  or

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