From the Transform or the Essentials section of the action bar, click
Split.
Click the
Splitting Element box from the
Split.x dialog box and
select a plane, a face or a surface.
An arrow appears indicating the portion of body that will be retained.
Only the intersected portion of the body will be split.
Notes:
You can select the arrow to reverse the direction for the portion of
the body to be retained.
Using input elements that are tangent to
each other may result in geometric instabilities in the tangency
zone.
In the
Extrapolation Type list, select any of the
following:
None: Splits a solid when a splitting
element intersects the free edges of a solid. By default, this option is
selected.
Tangent: Extrapolates the splitting
element tangentially and splits a solid. You can use this option when the
splitting element is too short to intersect any of the faces of the solid to
split.
Curvature: Extrapolates the splitting
element in a curvature and splits a solid. You can use this option when the
splitting element intersects at least one of the face of the solid to split.
Click
OK.
If you select the Tangent or the
Curvature as the Extrapolation
Type, the material is removed after the splitting element is
extrapolated to cut the volume completely.
Extrapolation Type:
Tangent
Extrapolation Type:
Curvature
Material is removed. Only one pad is split as the surface splits the 3D
representation when they intersect it. Split.x node is
added to the tree.
Note:
The Split command simplifies
the geometry containing joined faces that have the same planar or surface
support are merged.
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