Click Extract
.
The Extract Definition dialog box appears as well as the Tools Palette. For further information about the Tools Palette, refer to Infrastructure User's Guide : Selecting Using Selection Traps.
![](../GsdImages/dbextract01NLS.gif)
In the Part Design
workbench, the Extract capability is available as a
contextual command named Create Extract that you can
access from Sketch-based features dialog boxes.
Select an edge or the face of an element.
The selected element is highlighted.
Choose the Propagation
type:
- Point continuity: the extracted element will not
have a hole.
![](../GsdImages/extract02.gif)
- Tangent continuity: the extracted element will be
created according to tangency conditions.
![](../GsdImages/extract01.gif)
- Curvature continuity: the
extracted element (necessarily a curve) will be created according
to curvature conditions.
![](../GsdImages/extract04.gif)
- No propagation: only the selected element will be
created.
![](../GsdImages/extract01.gif)
Select the Federation check box to generate
groups of elements belonging to the resulting extracted element that
will be detected together with the pointer when selecting one of its
sub-elements.
For further information, see
Joining Surfaces or Curves.
Click OK to extract the element.
The extracted element (identified as Extract.xxx) is added to the
specification tree.