Parametrised Windscreen Antenna Elements
View the workflow for creating curved parameterised windscreen antenna elements.
- Import windscreen glass and antenna boundary.
- The antenna boundary will be used as the outline for the constrained surface.
- Project antenna boundary onto windscreen surface.
- To ease snapping, the antenna boundary and windscreen surface should be a single part. Union the windscreen and antenna boundary. If the antenna boundary is not coincident with the windscreen surface, project its outline onto the windscreen surface.
- Create a constrained surface.
- The windscreen surface is approximated by a constrained surface specified by a cloud of points, normals and optional U′V′ parameters.
- Create a work surface.
- A work surface is created from the constrained surface. The work surface is used to define surface curves in the U′V′ parameter space of this surface.
- Create windscreen antenna elements.
- Windscreen antenna elements are defined in the specified work surface using Surface lines, Surface Bézier curves and Surface regular lines curves.
- Mesh the model.
- To prevent the constrained surface from being meshed, exclude the constrained surface in the model.