Tooling Geometry Section

The Tooling Geometry section of the action bar provides commands for creating geometry.

This page discusses:

Flyout for Creating Wireframe
Flyout for Creating Lines
Flyout for Offsetting Curves
Flyout for Creating Curves
Flyout for Creating Surfaces
Flyout for Creating Solids
Flyout for Managing Topology
Flyout for Extracting Geometry
Flyout for Processing Fillets
Flyout for Performing Transformations
Flyout for Managing Elements


	Sketcher Creates a sketch. See Sketcher User's Guide.
	Pad Creates a pad to ease the creation of inserts. See Creating Pads.
	Axis System Creates an axis system. See Defining an Axis System
	Point See Flyout for Creating Wireframe
	Projection See Flyout for Creating Lines
	Parallel Curve See Flyout for Offsetting Curves
	Spline See Flyout for Creating Curves
	Extrude See Flyout for Creating Surfaces
	Close Surface See Flyout for Creating Solids
	Join See Flyout for Managing Topology
	Boundary See Flyout for Extracting Geometry
	Shape Fillet See Flyout for Processing Fillets
	Translate See Flyout for Performing Transformations
	Extrapolate See Flyout for Managing Elements

Flyout for Creating Wireframe


	Point Creates a point.
	Middle Point Creates the middle point of an open and limited curve. See Creating a Middle Point.
	Extremum Creates elements at the minimum or maximum distance on a curve, a surface, or a pad.
	Line Creates a line.
	Plane Creates a plane.

Flyout for Creating Lines


	Projection Creates geometry by projecting one or more elements onto a support.
	Reflect Line Creates open or closed reflect lines.
	Intersection Creates wireframe geometry by intersecting elements.

Flyout for Offsetting Curves


	Parallel Curve Creates a curve parallel to a reference curve.
	3D Curve Offset Creates a 3D curve offset from a reference curve.

Flyout for Creating Curves


	Spline Creates spline curves.
	Corner Creates a corner between two curves or between a point and a curve.
	Connect Curve Creates a connecting curve between two curves.
	Spine Creates spines normal to a list of ordered planes or planar curves.
	Curve on Surface Creates a curve on a surface, point by point, or as isoparametric or tangent curve. See Creating Free Form Curves on Surfaces.

Flyout for Creating Surfaces


	Extrude Creates an extruded surface by extruding a profile along a given direction.
	Offset Creates a surface that is offset from a reference surface.
	Sweep Creates a swept surface by sweeping out a profile in planes normal to a spine curve.
	Fill Creates a fill surface between boundary segments.
	Multi-Sections Surface Creates a multi-section surface by sweeping one or more section curves along an automatically computed or user-defined spine.
	Blend Creates a blended surface between two wireframe elements.

Flyout for Creating Solids


	Close Surface Splits selected faces and creates a close surface. See Creating Close Surface Features.
	Generative Form Block Creates a generative form block from a component in an assembly structure, to be turned into an insert. See Creating a Generative Form Block.

Flyout for Managing Topology


	Join Assemble adjacent curves or surfaces to one element.
	Curve Smooth Smooths a curve by filling gaps and smoothing tangency and curvature discontinuities. See Smoothing Curves.
	Untrim Restores a trimmed surface or curve to its original shape. See Restoring a Surface or Curve.

Flyout for Extracting Geometry


	Boundary Creates the boundary curve of a surface or the boundary point of a curve by selecting a surface edge or a surface.
	Extract Extracts a face or a surface edge.
	Multiple-Extract Extracts sub-elements (curves, points, surfaces, solids, volumes and so forth) that are joined into one element.
	Trim Trims two or more surface or wireframe elements by cutting each other mutually.
	Surface by Color Creates a datum surface from a colored area. See Creating a Surface by Color.

Flyout for Processing Fillets


	Shape Fillet... Shape Fillet See Creating Bitangent Shape Fillets.
	Edge Fillet... Creates a radius fillet with a constant radius or variable radii.
	Variable Fillet... Creates a fillet whose radius varies along the edge.
	Chordal Fillet Creates a fillet on a surface edge. See Generative Shape Design User's Guide: Creating Chordal Fillets.
	Face-Face Fillet... Creates a face-face fillet between faces without intersection or with more than one sharp edge between them. See Creating Face-Face Fillets.
	Tritangent Fillet... Creates a tritangent fillet by removing one of three selected faces. See Creating Tritangent Fillets.

Flyout for Performing Transformations


	Translate Translates point, line or surface elements along a vector.
	Rotate Rotates geometry about an axis.
	Symmetry Transforms geometry using a mirror symmetry with respect to a reference plane, line, or point.
	Scaling Scales geometry.
	Affinity Transforms geometry by affinity.
	Axis to Axis Transforms elements from one axis system to another.

Flyout for Managing Elements


	Extrapolate Extrapolates a surface at one or several boundaries or a curve.
	Invert Orientation Inverts the orientation of a surface or a curve. See Inverting the Orientation of Geometry.
	Near Creates, from the multi-element, the element nearest to the reference element. See Creating the Nearest or the Farthest Entity of a Multiple Element.