Face Selection for Turning Operations

With Automatic, you can select a maximum of a part faces in two clicks.

When you select two non-adjacent faces, all the faces between the two selected ones are automatically selected, and the profile line of the part is highlighted. This option is activated by default.

Alternatively, you can use this mode and select the faces one by one.

This describes a scenario using Line insert, in the extrapolation mode.

Extrapolation modes are defined by clicking .

The Line insert Extrapolation mode is selected in the option panel. Three extrapolations modes are available:

Line insert, Axial Radial and Radial Axial mode.

When entering the selection step, select one face. The material removed arrow appears, and the resulting geometry is shown in green.

Continue the selection of adjacent faces. At each selection, the resulting geometry is also shown in green.

Select one face that is not next to the already selected faces.

As the newly selected face is not near the already selected one, the extrapolation mode is used to reach the new position. There must be at least two selected faces to use all the extrapolation modes (same behavior as the edge wizard).

A line is created between the extremity of the current resulting geometry and the extremity of the newly selected Face. 1 - Resulting geometry from previously selected face, 2 - Extrapolated line, 3 - Resulting geometry from newly selected face.

After this, other selections are continued using other extrapolation modes.

This describes a scenario for the Radial Axial, Extrapolation mode.

The initial face selections in this case are the same as the above case, Line insert extrapolation mode.

As the last selected face is not adjacent to the already selected one, the extrapolation mode is used to reach the new position.

In this case, the extrapolation mode is set to Radial Axial mode.

Two lines are created between the extremity of the current resulting geometry and the extremity of the last selected non-adjacent face.

The first line is along the Radial axis. The second line is along the Axial axis. 1A - Extrapolated line.

After this, selecting other faces is continued.

This describes a scenario for the Axial Radial, extrapolation mode.

When entering in the selection step, select one face. The material removed arrow appears, and the resulting geometry is shown in green. The extrapolation mode selected in the option is Axial Radial.

Continue selecting adjacent faces. At each selection, the resulting geometry is shown in green.

Select one face which is not adjacent to the already selected faces. The selected extrapolation mode is Axial Radial.

Two lines are created between the extremity of the current resulting geometry and the extremity of the newly selected face. The first line is along the spindle axis, the second is along the radial axis. 1A - Extrapolated line, 2 - Radial, 3 - Axial, 4 - Axial axis, 5 - Radial axis

This shows mixing the different extrapolations with the navigation mode.

Here is a sample of a selection that has used Radial Axial, Axial Radial extrapolation line (red arrows on diagram) and the navigation mode during a selection.