Surface Design

The Surface Design section of the action bar provides commands for creating and modifying surfaces.

This page discusses:

Flyout for Creating Extrusion and Revolution Surfaces
Flyout for Creating Surfaces
Flyout for Extracting Geometry
Flyout for Splitting Geometry


	Multi-Sections Sketches Performs a parametric reconstruction by generating sketches of the section boundary of the concept shape. See Creating Multi-Sections Sketches.
	Apply Design Zone Specifications Closes the duct by adding interface faces from the volume to optimize and prepares the new shape for validation. See Applying Design Zone Specifications.
	Create pipe Creates a pipe from a flow analysis case. See Creating a Pipe.
	Match Creates a surface that matches a surface to targets. See Matching Surfaces.
	Extrude See Flyout for Creating Extrusion and Revolution Surfaces.
	Fill Creates a fill surface between boundary segments. See Creating Fill Surfaces.
	Multi-Sections Surfaces See Flyout for Creating Surfaces.
	Sweep Creates a swept surface by sweeping out a profile in planes normal to a spine curve. See Creating Swept Surfaces.
	Offset Creates a surface that is offset from a reference surface. See Creating Offset Surfaces.
	Boundary Creates the boundary curve of a surface or the boundary point of a curve by selecting a surface edge or a surface. See Creating Boundaries.
	Projection Creates geometry by projecting one or more elements onto a support. See Creating Projections.
	Intersection Creates wireframe geometry by intersecting elements. See Creating Intersections.
	Surface Simplification Simplifies the topology of adjacent surfaces under given thresholds to make a simple surface of one element.
	Extract See Flyout for Extracting Geometry.
	Join Assemble adjacent curves or surfaces to one element. See Joining Curves or Surfaces.
	Split See Flyout for Splitting Geometry.
	Extrapolate Extrapolates a surface at one or several boundaries or a curve. See Extrapolating Geometry.
	Close Surface Closes surfaces.
	Geometrical Set Inserts a geometrical set in the tree.

Flyout for Creating Extrusion and Revolution Surfaces


	Extrude Creates an extruded surface by extruding a profile along a given direction. See Creating Extruded Surfaces.
	Revolve Creates a revolution surface by revolving a planar profile about an axis. See Creating Revolved Surfaces.

Flyout for Creating Surfaces


	Blend Creates a blended surface between two wireframe elements. See Creating Blended Surfaces.
	Multi-Sections Surface Creates a multi-section surface by sweeping one or more section curves along an automatically computed or user-defined spine. See Working with Multi-Sections Surfaces.

Flyout for Extracting Geometry


	Extract Extracts a face or a surface edge. See Extracting Elements.
	Multiple Extract Extracts sub-elements that are joined into one element. See Extracting Sub-Elements.

Flyout for Splitting Geometry


	Split Splits a surface or wireframe element using a cutting element. See Splitting Geometry.
	Trim Trims two or more surface or wireframe elements by cutting each other mutually. See Trimming Geometry.