Creating a Sew Surface

Sewing is a Boolean operation combining a surface with a volume. Sew Surface lets you add or remove material by modifying the surface of the volume.

Before you begin: Create a surface to be sewn on a volume.
  1. In the Volume box, select the sewing volume.
  2. In the Object to sew box, select the object to sew onto the volume.

    Arrows appear indicating the side where material will be added or kept. Click an arrow to reverse the given direction. The arrows must point towards the volume.

  3. In the Deviation box, choose the deviation tolerance computation mode.
  4. Select the Simplify geometry check box.
    If in the resulting volume there are connected faces defined on the same geometric support (faces separated by smooth edges), these faces will be merged into one single face.
  5. Click OK.
    The surface is sewn onto the volume. Notice that the bottom of the volume is made of one single face.
  6. Double-click the sew surface in the tree to edit it and clear the Simplify geometry check box.
  7. Click OK.

 

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