Disassembling Shapes

You can disassemble multi-cell curves or surfaces into mono-cell, or mono-domain curves or surfaces.

Before you begin: Open an existing 3D shape.

  1. Select the shape to be disassembled.

    You can multi-select elements if required.

    You can select only an edge of a surface, the system recognizes the whole element to be disassembled.

    Here we selected the join made of three elements, each made of several cells.



  2. Click Disassemble .

    The Disassemble dialog box appears.

  3. Choose the disassembling mode.


    • All Cells: all cells are disassembled, i.e. for all the selected element, a separate curve is created for each cell.
    • Domains Only: elements are partially disassembled, i.e. each element is kept as a whole if its cells are connex, but is not decomposed in separate cells. A resulting element can be made of several cells.

    The number selected elements, and the number of elements to be created according to the disassembling mode are displayed within the Disassemble dialog box.

    In the illustrations, we have colored the resulting curves for better identification:


    • Results when disassembling all cells (seven curves are created)

    • Results when disassembling domains only (three curves are created)

  4. Click OK in the dialog box.

    In case of a multi-selection, a progression bar is displayed, while the surface is being disassembled.

    It automatically disappears once the operation is complete (progression at 100%).

    The selected element is disassembled (independent elements are created which can then be manipulated independently).