Creating a Ruled Parting Surface

You can create a parting surface on simple parts, from the parting line and the direction.Use Ruled Parting Surface to create a parting surface on simple parts, from the parting line and the direction.

  1. From the Molded Part section in the action bar, click Parting Surface .
  2. Select a parting line.

    If only one exists, it is automatically selected.

  3. Optional: Select Tangent Propagation.
    It applied to the selected edges.
  4. Select a Direction Type from the list.
    • Perpendicular to direction of pull
      • Select a pulling direction.
      • Specify a distance value.
    • Tangent to surface
      • Specify a distance value and an angle value.
    • Normal to surface
      • Specify a distance value and an angle value.
    • Select direction
      • Select a direction. Planar and linear entities are supported.
      • Specify a distance value.
  5. Under More, specify how corners are processed.
    • Sharp corner

    • Round corner. Requires a Round Radius value.

  6. Select Knit surfaces and key-in a Knit tolerance.

    • When it is selected, the output surface is a single body.

    • Clear Knit surfaces to have each face in the output in its own body. You can then perform extra surface operations, before knitting the surfaces together, especially when the resulting parting surface is not complete.

  7. Optional: Select the Manual Control check box to locally modify the directions.
    Handles show inner edges where you can modify the orientation.
  8. Click one handle.

    • By default, all handles displayed in the 3D area for the local directions are initialized to Undefined. This prevents impacting the result if you have not modified any local direction.
    • White handles correspond to the current global direction.
    • The handles turn blue when the direction of the local edge is not Undefined.
    • Handles turn orange after a click.
    • If they all have the same value, selected handles show the current value of the edges in the context toolbar. If the edges have different values, Unknown is displayed.

    1. From the Direction Type list, select a direction.

      • Perpendicular to pulling direction.
      • Tangent to face.
      • Normal to face.
      • Along X
      • Along Y
      • Along Z
      • Skip: Creates a fill with adjacent edges.
      • Selected Direction, that is the input direction.

A Parting Surface feature is created in the tree. It contains the following parameters

  • Distance
  • Tolerance
  • Radius
  • Angle.