Getting a spline instead of radius
 

using v14.5 OSD, I am occasionally getting situations as shown in the attached jpg. You are seeing the side view of a cylinder intersecting a cone, with a blend at the intersection, but instead of showing a radius Annotator is showing a spline. All other features are coming in right. Calc mode is classic, though I've tried econfast, and graphic modes. I have deleted and recreated the blend. I have tried creating a new drawing setting front direction off of various different faces. In all cases, I am still stuck w/ splines.

Any ideas what needs to change?

Thanks

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

I seem to be blocked from attaching the .jpg - i'll add it when I can.

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

I've been playing with the blend. It was originally a .3" radius, I changed it to curve continuous and it was still a spline, I changed it to R.6 and it was still a spline, I changed it to R.15 and it updated as a radius this time instead of a spline. I changed it to R.25 and it was still a radius, but then I chnaged it back to R.3 and it turned back into a spline. . .

Crazy stuff.

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

Ah hah - when the radius of the blend exceeds the radius of the cylinder upon which it's placed the blend is represented as a spline.

Unfortunate limitation. Luckily the radius wasn't important to me so I made it smaller to eliminate the spline.

Happily I was also able to include the jpg this time.

Thanks for helping me work through the issue - :D

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

Your welcome. :)

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

I see this limitation all the time when trying to do planar views of drafted or cast parts with lots of blends between drafted surfaces. There is a toggle you can set that will force Annotation to project geometry onto the view that allows you to dimension the "true" radius, but naturally that geometry is not associative to the model so if the model changes the dimension won't update.

It's a shame since you've already defined the radius in the model that you can't just "show" that dimension on the drawing. Why re-dimension what you've already dimensioned?

Steve

Re: Getting a spline instead of radius
 

This "unfortunate" limitation is something that needs to be reviewed by CoCreate Support as a potential fix for CoCreate OneSpace Modeling and Annotation.

gmatelich... can you please submit this model to CoCreate Support so we can classify this issue. Thanks.

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