| spline |
| List of: | Glossary Items | |
| Subjects: | Construction Geometry | |
| Contents: | Glossary | |
| Spline refers to a curve or surface that cannot be directly represented in ACIS by one of the simple analytic surfaces (i.e., by a simple analytic formula), but that can be indirectly represented by an ordered list of analytic formulae, by segmenting the curve or surface with control points. ACIS implements some analytic surfaces, such as ellipsoids, as splines. | |||||