About Cuts

The topic provides information about cuts, particularly about the options in the Wall tab.

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Creating a Cut

To define a wall, you can set one of the options available from the list:

  • Use body thickness: The cut wall thickness is that of the active shelled body thickness.
  • Enter thickness: Enter the required value. After this option is selected, the Thickness box becomes available.
    Note: The wall thickness value must be a positive value.
  • Use feature thickness: The cut wall thickness will be the same thickness as the target feature (the feature you want to cut). However, if the target feature has no thickness parameter in its definition (for example if the target feature is an external feature), the Cut capability assigns the thickness value defined in Shell Properties to the wall. To specify the required value, you can:
    1. Set the thickness value to 0mm in Shell Properties before performing cutting operation.
    2. In the Cut.x dialog box, select Enter thickness and assign the required value.

Direction:

You can define the direction of the wall. Depending on the selected direction, the wall is constructed inside or outside of the selected profile. By default, the direction is Inside. For more information, see Functional Plastic Parts User's Guide: Removing a Shape.

When you cut non-wall based features such as added, protected, and external features, the inside or outside wall direction does not have any effect. It is because there is no wall constructed on non-wall based features. When you cut multiple features combined with wall based features and non-wall based features, the inside or outside wall thickness applies to the wall based features only.

Cut feature can keep the wall thickness constant when modifying wall creating features that have a constant wall thickness.