15.5. Turbo Surface

Turbo surfaces are graphic objects that can be viewed and used as locators, just like other graphic objects. To create a turbo surface, select Insert > Location > Turbo Surface from the menu bar. After you enter a name in the new Turbo Surface dialog box and click OK, the details view for the turbo surface will appear.


Note:  Blade Aligned Turbo Surfaces can fail due to the following limitations:

  • The extraction of leading and trailing edges of the blade is sensitive to tip clearance and to the curvature of the edges.

  • The normalization of coordinates is sensitive to blade extend comparing to inlet and outlet extend (that is, when the edges are too close to inlet/outlet).

You can always use the Streamwise Location coordinate when the quality of the blade aligned coordinates are in doubt.