Largest radius in SE

[tstanley]

What is the largest radius that can be modelled (drawn) in Solid Edge as a true radius, that is not approximated by a spline or something?

SolidWorks has a restriction where nothing can be drawn outside of a one kilometer box. This includes arcs where the center of the arc is outside of this one kilometer box.

I've been told that this is a restriction of the Parasolid kernel. Since both programs use the same Parasolid kernel, I was wondering if the same restriction applies to Solid Edge?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Tom Stanley

 

[fredericmenage]

Hi,

the solid you build has to fit inside a cube centered around the origin with a side length of 1km.

That's the limit after which the display becomes wireframe like. It's still working though because you can keep adding feature and make a draft. Exporting in step gives a weird invisible solid though...

The limit when it actually fails is around 10kms.

For assemblies, there doesn't seem to be a limit (I tried up to 1000kms).

HTH

Fred

 

[tstanley]

Thanks for your reply.

Supposing you had a model of a beam that fit inside the kilometer box, but it was curved with a large radius so that the center of the curve was outside the box,would it turn like wireframe in that case?

Tom Stanley

 

[fredericmenage]

No, it doesn't turn wireframe like.

The solid itself has to be outside of the box. If it's just the center of the arc, the model is displayed normally.

Fred

 

[tstanley]

Thank you Fred.

That answers my question, I appreciate your help.

Tom Stanley