Breaking and Trimming Elements

Using breaking and trimming operations you can quickly delete elements intersected by other Sketcher elements.

Before you begin:

Create three overlapping circles and ensure that Geometrical Constraints is activated.

Related Topics
Breaking Elements
Trimming Elements

  1. Click Quick Trim in the Operation toolbar (Relimitations sub-toolbar).

    The Quick Trim options are displayed in the Sketch tools toolbar.

  2. Keep the default option Break and Rubber In selected.

  3. Select the arc you wish to be deleted.



    The arc of circle has been trimmed as shown here. Coincidence constraints have been created.



  4. Click Quick Trim .

  5. Select Break and Rubber Out .

  6. Select the arc you wish not to be deleted.



    The arc of circle has been trimmed as shown here. Coincidence constraints have been created.



  7. Create three intersecting lines as shown below.

  8. Click Quick Trim .

  9. Select Break and Keep .

  10. Select a line as the element you wish to be broken.



    The line you selected has been broken in three segments delimited by the other lines. Coincidence constraints have been created.



    Important:
    • If you need to delete several elements, you can double-click Quick Trim and delete the elements one after the other.
    • You cannot apply Quick Trimand/or Break to composite curves (which are projected/intersected elements composed of several curves). However, you can work around this functional restriction by using Trimming Elements (this enables you to get the same results for composite curves as by performing the Quick Trim and the Break operations).