More about Cuts

The Wall option lets you set if, or how, the Cut command creates walls along the cutting surface.

To define a wall, you can set one of the options available from the drop down list:

• Use body thickness: the cut wall thickness is that of the active shelled body thickness.
• Enter thickness: simply enter the value you want. After this option is selected, the value box becomes available. Wall thickness values can only by positive values.
• Use feature thickness: the cut wall thickness will be the same thickness as the target feature (the feature you want to cut). However, if the target feature has no thickness parameter in its definition (for example if the target feature is an external feature), the Cut capability assigns the thickness value defined in Shell Properties to the wall. If this behavior does not meet your needs, you still can:
  
  1. Set the thickness value to 0mm in Shell Properties before cutting. Or:
  2. In the Cut dialog box, use Enter thickness and assign the value you need.

Direction:

You can control whether the wall is constructed inside or outside of the selected profile. The default is an inside wall thickness. Please refer to Inside/Outside definition in 'Removing a Shape' in the Functional Modeling Part User's Guide.

When you try to cut Non wall based features such as Added, Protected, and External features, the inside or outside wall direction does not have any effect. It is because there is no wall constructed on Non wall based features. When you try to cut the multiple features combined with wall based features and non wall based features, the inside or outside wall thickness applies to the wall based features only.

Cut feature has the ability to keep the wall thickness constant when modifying "wall creating features" that have been set Constant wall thickness.