Advanced Surfacing Overview >>

The advanced surfacing package is designed to give the developer the ability to create "Class A" surfaces which have higher order continuity (G2 and G3).

See http://www.design-engine.com/stories/classa.htm for a more complete definition of "Class A" surfaces. These advanced surfacing tools are paramont for industrial design applications where the appearence of the surface is the most critical aspect of the object being designed.

Our tools enable a new paradigm for surface design which focuses on the tangent fields and the ability to locally edit them. Under this new paradigm the definition of complex surfaces can be done by modifying the tangent fields instead of adding new curves to the surface definition. The best way to understand this paradigm is to see it in action. Contact us and we'll show you how we did it in our 3ds MAX plug-in "Power NURBS".

Additional information with examples are available in White Papers for the following:

• Derivative Surface White Paper
• Sweeping White Paper
• Blending White Paper