Inserting a New Body

You can insert a new body into the 3D shape.

When your 3D shape includes several bodies, you can then associate these bodies in different ways (see the tasks showing the different ways of attaching bodies in the Part Design User's Guide: Adding Bodies, Assembling Bodies, Intersecting Bodies, Removing Bodies, Trimming Bodies) to obtain the final 3D shape.

Your initial data consists of three bodies designed as shown below. From the Create section of the action bar, click Body .



The result is immediate. the app displays this new body referred to as Body.3 in our example, in the tree. It is underlined, indicating that it is the active body. The image associated with bodies in the tree differs from the image representing the part body. A blue gear as well as a yellow plus or minus sign have been added to the green gear. These signs indicate the polarity of the body.

This new image lets you quickly tell a body from a part body especially if that one has been renamed.



You can construct the geometry for this new body using the diverse commands available in this app or in other apps.

You will notice that Part Body and Body.3 are autonomous. The operations you would accomplish on any of them would not affect the integrity of the other one. Now, if you want to combine them, see the tasks showing the different ways of attaching bodies in the Part Design User's Guide: Associating Bodies: Trimming Bodies.