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sewing surfaces into a solid

sewing surfaces into a solid

sewing surfaces into a solid

(OP)
I'm a little confused how to join a solid to a sheet quickly. I'm using a ton of steps sometimes to get there.

Attach is a crude example where there is a bottom solid curved piece and then there is a top that is built with sheets, it only lacks a bottom. Therefore, there is a sheet on top of a solid. I'd like to use the same exact surface as the top side of the solid in this example. Is there a command or a quick way to "SHARE" the solids surface with the sheet?

nx 9

RE: sewing surfaces into a solid

You can use "extract geometry -> face" to make a copy of the solid's face. You can then sew this to the existing sheets to make a new solid body; now you have 2 solid bodies.

If you want to make one solid body from the solid + sheets, the "patch" command will save a step (try reversing the direction of the target region to remove option or selecting a different tool direction face if the result is not quite what you were expecting).

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RE: sewing surfaces into a solid

Or alternatively, using a trick I learned from the old Ideas users, simply Delete one of the faces of the Solid body and then Sew them all together into a Solid (which is why when you delete the face of a Solid you now have the option to NOT 'Heal' the body, but to leave it as a sheet-body with a 'hole' in it). See my attached example (note that I went one step farther and combined all the faces into a more simple result).

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RE: sewing surfaces into a solid

Or remove everything after the first Extrude and then just Extrude the face edges of the top face of the bottom solid along the Z-axis a distance of 100mm. Set the 2nd Extrude Boolean to None or Unite, pending on hom many solids you require. Probably 10-15 different ways to accomplish the same thing.

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RE: sewing surfaces into a solid

(OP)
awesome ideas, thank you all. i won't share the route I was taking sadeyes

nx 9

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