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Trimming Geomentry
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Trimming Geometry
This task shows you how to trim two or more surface or wireframe elements.
1. Click Trim .
The Trim Definition dialog box appears.
2. Select the trim mode:
Standard
Pieces
Standard
With this mode, one portion of the selected element (surface or wire) is kept and the list of trimmed elements is ordered.
The following options are explained hereafter:
Selecting a Support
Keeping or Removing Elements
Simplifying the result
Trimming A Surface When The Intersection Is Not Connex
Intersecting and extrapolating
A preview of the trimmed elements appears and the list of trimmed elements is updated:
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You can also select the portions to be kept by clicking Other side / next element or Other side / previous element .
Clicking Other side / next element Clicking Other side / previous element
Selecting a Support
When trimming wires (curve, line, sketch and so forth) by another wire, you can select a support to define the area that will be kept after
trimming the element. It is defined by the vectorial product of the normal to the support and the tangent to the trimming element.
Resulting trimmed element without support selection Resulting trimmed element with support selection
1. Click in the field of your choice to be able to select the elements in the 3D geometry.
2. Right-click in the field either to clear the selection or display the list of selected elements.
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Only the selected portion is removed. Only the selected portion is kept.
All other elements are kept All other elements are removed
You can also select a point to define the portion to keep or to remove.
A contextual menu is available on the Elements to remove and Elements to keep fields.
You do not need to select elements to keep if you already selected elements to remove and vice-versa.
Avoid trimming geometry when the intersection between the trimmed elements is merged with an edge of one of the
elements.
In that case, you can use Elements to remove and Elements to keep to remove the position ambiguity.
In case the intersection between the elements is not connex, an error message may be issued prompting you to
choose the elements to be kept or not.
In this case, use the Elements to remove and Elements to keep options.
Uncheck Automatic extrapolation if you do not want the automatic extrapolation of the elements to trim.
If the Automatic extrapolation option is unchecked, an error message is issued when the elements to trim need to be
extrapolated, and the latter are highlighted in red in the 3D geometry.
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To be able to trim the two surfaces or wireframe elements, check Automatic extrapolation.
The following capabilities are available: Stacking Commands and Selecting Using Multi-Output.
Pieces
With this mode, all trimmed curves are split together, all selected portions are kept and the list of trimmed curves is unordered.
This mode is only available with curves.
Every portion of each curve is numerated and all numbers are stored. The order of numeration corresponds to the orientation of the
curve.
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A preview of the trimmed elements appears and the list of trimmed curves is updated:
If you modify the portion of a curve (for instance, cutting or extrapolating), the numeration is liable to change as there may be
more or less intersections. As a consequence, the result may differ.
Check Check connexity to find out whether the curves to be trimmed are connex. If they are not, and the
option is checked, an error message is issued indicating the number of connex domains in the resulting
trimmed feature.
The resulting feature is highlighted, and helps you detect where the trimmed feature is not connex.
Check Check manifold to find out whether the resulting trimmed feature is manifold.
Use Remove and Replace to modify the elements list.
The following capability is available: Stacking Commands.
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