Creating Multi-sections Solids

You can sweep one or more planar section curves along a computed or user-defined spine to generate a multi-section solid.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Multi-sections Solids
Creating Removed Multi-sections Solids

Create a Basic Multi-sections Solid

You can create a basic multi-section solid using the section curves and the guide curves.

  1. From the Model section of the action bar, click Multi-sections Solid .
    The Multi-sections Solid Definition dialog box appears.
  2. Select the multiple section curves as shown:
    They are highlighted in the work area.

    Important: The Multi-sections Solid capability assumes that the section curves to be used do not intersect.
  3. Click Preview to get an idea of the feature to be created.
    You can note that by default, tangency discontinuity points are coupled.

  4. For the purpose of our scenario, you are going to use guide curves. Click the Guide box and select the four joins. The curves to be used must be joined. They are highlighted in the work area.
  5. Click OK to create the volume.
    The feature (identified as Multi-sections Solid.xxx) is added to the tree.

    Important: When a Multi-sections Solid feature is copy-pasted, the sketches used are not duplicated. The duplicated feature points to the already existing sketches. This behavior is specific to Multi-sections Solid. For Pad, Shaft and others features, sketches are duplicated while features are pasted.