Creating a Sew Surface

You can split faces of a solid to create a sew surface. This sew surface is appliqued on the solid, thus dividing each selected face into two areas. You can then color those areas separately according to your needs.

  1. From the Analysis & Preparation section in the action bar, click .

    Important: Do not select faces yet.

  2. Select the Propagation type:
    • No propagation: Select the faces one by one.
    • Tangent continuity: Select one face. All the faces in the same body that are tangent to the selected face are automatically selected.
  3. Select either one face to split by direct pick, or several with multiselection .


  4. Select the cutting element.


The sew surface feature is created as SewSurface.x