I need to do a cut extrusion on a multibodied part and need to select the solids. As of right now I have to select each one individually rather than doing a drag box or something like that. Does anyone know how I can do this fast, I've got a multibody part w/ over 1000 solids (I didn't create it, yes I know this is probably excessive).
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I don't know of any way to do that, sorry. A thousand solids!! Well, now we know that that many is possible. Are all of these solids derived into individual parts?
Sam B
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still waiting for a foreshortened radius dimensioning tool in Drawing Manager
Possibly some iLogic master may have a solution.
Is it mandatory to keep the part with multibodies? If not, combine them into one, it's easy to select all the bodies using Shift button under this operation.
@fakeru wrote:Is it mandatory to keep the part with multibodies? If not, combine them into one, it's easy to select all the bodies using Shift button under this operation.
And there's your answer! To select multiple bodies for your extrusion cut, expand the Solid Bodies folder in the browser and use shift- and/or ctrl-select to grab as many as you want.
Sam B
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still waiting for a foreshortened radius dimensioning tool in Drawing Manager
In INV2012 you can't select the solids using Shift button while under Extrude/Cut command.
I'm not sure about 2013 version.
I verified it in 2013 before I posted.
Sam B
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still waiting for a foreshortened radius dimensioning tool in Drawing Manager
No, the fact that it's over a thousand solids means that if I try to combine I wind up crashing the comp. Due to rounding errors and poor construction it would have tons of union problems. Bottom line I tried that and got nowhere, plus it makes the model look ugly because I have to combine in groups to get anything to cooperate.
Right there's a seam wherever there's weld and it was modeled as an individual part. I use the multibody feature because I can't open the file if I use each as it's own seperate part (total 35k for the whole model).
Open the solids folder, you can select one solid, hold down shift and select the last one, this will select all in between.
My situation is very similar but more difficult due to the fact that I am only trying to select a few of the parts. There is no order to the solids in the browser so I still have to individually select them.
The multi-body part I have is from a STEP file supplied by my customer. I need to simplify it by deleting about 2/3 of the solid bodies.
WHY CAN"T I SELECT BY WINDOW?
Perhaps like this:
- Select all bodies in browser (Entries beneath Origin, not Solids)
- Copy to Construction (Construction environment needs to be enabled in Application Options)
- Delete all bodies in Modeling environment (ME)
- Switch to Construction environment
- Create new group and set it invisible
- Select Bodies to be deleted with window and move to the new group
- Select the remaining ones and Copy Object (Option multibody) back to ME
- Delete the rest in invisible group or delete whole CE
Be happy
Walter
Walter Holzwarth