2. Smart Mesh

NOTE: Smart mesh has been updated to Mesh TR in LWCAD 2018.3

LWCAD 2018.3 video: Mesh TR

Smart mesh is a unified geometry system of polygons and nurbs surfaces.

The basic idea of this system, is to connect polygons and nurbs surfaces into homogeneous objects.

Polygons and surfaces are connected with shared edges which are defined by curves or lines.

Level of detail of these shared edges are identical for both sides of connected surfaces or polygons

Benefits:

• simpler edit tools

• - no need to have duplicate tools for polygons and nurbs

• - edit operations work same way on polygons and nurbs

• cleaner objects

• easily visible and adjustable level of detail

• parametric modeling

• - big potential for developing very simple parametric tools

example: Difference between LWCAD smart mesh and Rhinoceros poly-surface objects: