Split Two Elements
You can split elements by selecting a cutting element.
- From the Transform section of the action bar, click Split .
- In the Element to cut box, select the element to be split.Make your selection by clicking the portion that you want to keep after the split.
You can select several elements to cut. In that case, click Element to cut again or click . The Elements to cut dialog box appears. Select as many elements as required. Click Close to return to the Split Definition dialog box. The number of selected elements is displayed in the Element to cut box
Click Remove or Replace to modify the elements list. When several elements to cut are selected, the selected portions are not taken into account as parts to keep. The parts to be kept depend on the type of the cutting element (such as point, curve, surface) and the orientation of the cutting elements and the elements to cut. Click Other side to reverse the portion to be kept, element by element.
- In the Cutting elements area, select the cutting element.A preview of the split appears. You can change the portion to be kept by selecting that portion.
You can also select the portion to be kept by clicking Other side. This option applies on all selected elements to cut.
Note: You can select several cutting elements. In that case, the selection order is important. The area to be split is defined according to the side to be kept in relation to the current splitting element.Right-click in the Cutting elements area and select Create Join to create a join as the splitting element. If you split a surface and you keep both sides by joining the resulting splits, you cannot access the internal sub-elements of the join. The splits result from the same surface and the cutting elements are common.
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Optional: Select the Keep both sides
check box to retain the other side of the split element after the operation.
In that case, it appears as aggregated under the first element and both
split elements can only be edited together and the aggregated element alone
cannot be deleted.
Important: - If you use the Datum mode, the second split element is not aggregated under the first one, but two datum surfaces are created.
- If there are several elements to cut, the Keep both sides check box is available only for the first selected element.
- Optional: Click Show Parameters>> to view more options.
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Optional: In the Options
tab, select the Ignore no intersecting elements check box to split many elements (curves, surfaces, volumes) when the cutting element does not intersect all the elements.
Important: When this check box is selected, the Intersections computation check box is cleared and become unavailable. -
Optional: You can select the Keep elements in half space check box to keep all the elements that are on one side of the cutting infinite plane. The cutting element defines this half space.
Important: - This check box applies only when the cutting element is an infinite plane.
- If the split side is not toward the element to cut, an error message is issued. Note that this behavior differs from the behavior in the Part Design apps, that is, no error message is issued.
- If the element to be cut is a volume, no error message is issued in case the cutting element is not an infinite plane.
Warning: Avoid splitting geometry when the intersection between the element to cut and the cutting element is merged with an edge of the element to cut. We advise you to use the Elements to remove and Elements to keep boxes to remove the positioning ambiguity. - Optional: You can select the Approximation tab to control the quality of the result of the split through several parameters and modes.
- Click OK to split the element.If several elements to cut were used, the created elements are aggregated under a Multi-Output.xxx feature.
Here, the top-left line is the first splitting element. In the left illustration, it defines an area that intersects with the other three splitting curves, and in the illustration to the right, these three elements are useless to split the area defined by the first splitting element.
To remove or replace one of these cutting elements, select it from the list and click Remove or Replace.