Inv9sp2 : Face as Split Tool

[Anonymous]

I don't use Surfaces very often but find them handy at times.

Is there any likelihood of being able to use a face of a solid/feature as a Splitting Tool. Does the Splitting Tool need to
intersect the surface to be split or can it be an 'apparent intersections' ? If not, can the latter and former be included on a
surfaces wish list ?

Or can somebody who really knows about surfaces tell me I'm talking out the back of my head 🙂


--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs

[Anonymous]

Offset the face 0 (zero) to make it a surface and split away with it...

[Anonymous]

Peer,

That's what I ended up doing.

Just thought it would be easier and quicker to use faces that already existed.


--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad
as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs


"Peer Hoffmann" <'Boy was I getting Spammed'ph@ambu.com> wrote in message news:4826889@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Offset the face 0 (zero) to make it a surface and split away with it...

[Anonymous]

Duncan,

You can always use a Surface or a Solid as the split tool. You can first
pick the faces you want to split (part faces or surface faces) and then pick
a solid or a surface as split tool. There is a UI glitch in Split dialogbox
though. Somehow Split Tool is the first pick when you launch the command and
you are not allowed to pick solid as split tool.

Johnson Shiue
Test Engineer
Autodesk, Inc.

"Duncan Anderson" wrote in
message news:4826883@discussion.autodesk.com...
>I don't use Surfaces very often but find them handy at times.
>
> Is there any likelihood of being able to use a face of a solid/feature as
> a Splitting Tool. Does the Splitting Tool need to intersect the surface to
> be split or can it be an 'apparent intersections' ? If not, can the latter
> and former be included on a surfaces wish list ?
>
> Or can somebody who really knows about surfaces tell me I'm talking out
> the back of my head 🙂
>
>
> --
> Duncan
> "Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and
> proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be as mad as what passes
> for ordinary living."
> (Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
> www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs