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The word "power surfacing" is at the heart of SolidWorks. It is now easier than ever to create beautiful, intricate surfaces with the latest capabilities in design technology. How can you tell if your surface is power surfaced? You may have a power surfacing crack! Here are some examples of how it will look to you, and what you can do about it. If you try to modify a basic surface, think about whether the modification tool is turned on. If it is not, SolidWorks will display a message box telling you that power surfacing is off. Click the "Turn On" button to enable power surfacing.In this example, a 3D sketch was used to create the relief for this extrusion. In order to keep from having "curled edges," power surfacing must be turned on for the sketches that use the sketch plane as one of their boundaries.Inaccurate surfaces and inaccurate drawings can be difficult and time consuming for designers and other engineers to work with. While some of the problems associated with inaccurate surface representations (surface topology, poor surface quality, etc.) can be addressed by simply modifying the surface or drawing, many of these problems are caused by power surfacing leaks. These leaks occur when an object is copied onto another object prior to creating the final surface. Because SolidWorks tries to preserve the original value of the features (see below) it will create forces on forces on curves and surfaces on both objects that go beyond what is needed to produce an accurate representation of them on an accurate drawing. This extra force will pull multiple times on each feature, resulting in holes and unnatural values in your final model. For example, in the case of a body-on-body surface created with a lofted surface, if power surfacing leaks are present, the resulting hole between the two bodies is often larger than it needs to be. In order to edit any of these surfaces or drawings, you must find and fix each leak in order to get good results. In an ideal situation you would have created the final surface by creating a solid from individual surfaces. SolidWorks has tools that can make this process fairly easy. The process of creating a solid from surfaces is called "power surfacing." When you create a solid from surfaces, SolidWorks will use the surface that touches both bodies as the boundary curve, and the rest of the surfaces will be undeformed. If there are gaps in your surface due to power surfacing leaks, you can close them by using the Body Fillet feature (see below). Another way to fix leaks between bodies is to use SolidWorks' Body Fill tool. The Body Fill tool uses undeflected geometric features (such as lines) in place of body fill contours. This can lead to higher quality results when compared to using standard linear and circular patterns. eccc085e13

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