Extrude intersect assembly

[RolfEven]

Allow intersect cut in assembly environment.

In above picture you would only need one cut profile.

/Rolf Even

[scottmoyse]

Hmm would be nice if this interacted with Inventor HSM in some way.

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[magnusn]

This is a feature I would need a lot, and have missed for close to two decades already. I do lots of FEM analyses in Nastran of assemblies, and generally in FEM it's good practice to reduce the model size by utilizing symmetry as much as possible. Often, you need a quarter of the original model (or less), and the simplest way to achieve that would be to sketch a square or triangle with one corner in the symmetry plane intersection and extending over the whole model, and then extrude it using the intersection tool, which however isn't selectable. So, instead I need to draw the opposite geometry (a three quarter geometry covering everything that needs to be removed), extrude that one using the subtraction tool, and hope I don't need to divide the model any further.

There are of course other ways to achieve the same end result, but all of them are more complicated (if I haven't missed anything). I don't know much about programming, but this seems like a simple thing to implement.