How can I place a point on a curved face and make a normal

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jr23mx
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How can I place a point on a curved face and make a normal

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Hello all

In the following picture I graph the normal but it is going on the opposite direction I expected.

How can I place first a point on the selected face if it is curved? or how can I make a normal to outside of the body like the red arrow.

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Re: How can I place a point on a curved face and make a normal

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see tripod of the nurbw wb
https://youtu.be/fScyrV9fB80
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Re: How can I place a point on a curved face and make a normal

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It is more convenient if you upload the FreeCAD file and not a step.

The curved surface follows an arc, so it's easy. In the attached example I created a sketch and created a line normal to the surface.
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